Getting handy with a push broom

I know I haven't updated in a while, and I don't even have a super good explanation for it. Hah. Other than the fact that I've been a little bit more busy with work study at Velocity, which opened up the ability to take more classes for less moneys. I've been getting used to it, things are coming a little more naturally now. And I keep feeling more and more welcome into the dance community there, it's wonderful. I even was given an opportunity to bartend at the last show I volunteered at for the first time. So I am gaining employable skills! Hurray!

Also I have a kind of starter poem that I've been meaning to work on lately and put up, but maybe I will just put up the rough draft and then I can get some input from anyone who wants to give it!


I once heard
the secret songs of trees with you,
their whispers
of all hopeful things.
I felt their joy and desire and peace,
but you heard it and only felt fear.
You could tell
things larger than you, us,
were living and breathing
and sharing with us
their raw honesty.
Maybe
you liked the idea of it,
because you shared the story with your friends
so you would sound
like all the things you wanted to be.
But now I know
you couldn't handle it.
So I went on
to stand
in high places
on dark nights
to hear the mournful bittersweet stories
of the wind and water,
rocks and trees.

In other news I'm back in Port Angeles for a bit, and I'm feeling really thankful for good friends. Friends that are there for you through thick and thin. Life is tumultuous and hard but we will be stronger in the end for it. I am also very thankful for the existence of cupcakes, because without them I don't think life would be as easy to get through. So, cheers to cupcakes and good friends.
And pretty pictures! Got to include my recent pretty pictures.

Night walking

 Self portrait. kinda.

 Sunny day flowers backyard pretty.

 

ALSO THE NEW ANDREW BIRD ALBUM IS OUT, AND THE SHINS. THEY ARE BOTH REALLY GOOD. GET THEM.

Kaybai.

Mascot

This is my mascot. I discovered it at Genki Sushi. It is my favourite thing in existence.

I just keep watching it... over and over and over... 

In other news, my name came up for starting work study at Velocity in March! So I start then and it will go for at least three months, and I will get discounted classes. It's super exciting!

This is what I do when I'm cooking... or not cooking...

Scratch that... this is what I do all the time...

Improv, anyone?

Hey, so the other day I came up with the idea of video recording any dance improvisation I do, for my own educational purposes. I want to be able to see what I did, in order for me to maybe incorporate parts into actual choreography. So I did a bit of improvisation last night, and tested it out. It was okay, except for I didn't pick out the optimum place to set my computer to record it so it's mostly upper body stuff, no floor work and I didn't get to go out of the range of the camera. But even if it's not great, it's not terrible, and I thought it might be interesting for people who don't have the ability to see me dance all the time.

This is the first video I took, it's to a song called "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. I really want to choreograph something to it, so I'll probably be working with it a fair amount.
UPDATE- I watched this on here after I posted this, and the sound and visual are really not synced very well. I apologize, it's a lot cooler when it is.

I also wanted to put up a couple pictures I've taken over the past couple of days. 

Definition of perfection: Seattle dinosaurs at sunset! (:

Some Semi-New Poetry and Doggie Pictures

Hey, I thought it was about time I put up some more of my writing, and I also wanted to put up a couple pictures I took of our dog, Hayes, yesterday.

Mid yawn.

Now for poetry.
This one I wrote about a month ago. I didn't title it.

Every time I sleep
I have these terrible dreams
where it's the same as when I'm awake.

But then I walk to you
and you say you love me too
all the time for contact I ache.

We hold hands and smile
keeping it secret all the while
until my eyes open and my heart breaks.

Here's another that's fairly recent- (it's less about rhyme schemes, but more about the sound when read aloud.)

On dripping days like this
I think of you
when everything is so
thoroughly soaked
that we're all fragile as bird bones.
The poetry seeps back into me
around this time of year,
through my feet
and up my body
until it bleeds out my eyes
and fingertips.

More Adventures in Cooking, and Life.

Life is weird. Today, sad and strange things are happening elsewhere, things no one can begin to understand why they're happening. At the same time, it feels like something resembling summer in Seattle today! And the mountains are so wonderful!

So although life is weird, and although it might be hard sometimes, one has to try to see the happy and beautiful things in life as well. 

Like Betty! She is the perfect example of being at peace with the world.

Now to what's been going on with me-

While going on a walk to Caffe Ladro today, I was listening to the Decemberists, and it just felt good. I thought I'd try to share the experience with you to the best of my ability-

Also, last night I cooked again! I made vegetable chowder with carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, and potatoes. Very yummy. I also made cookie bars!

(They all made very good leftovers today, too! Hurray!)

And to update you all in the dance life of Jordan Rahne MacIntosh-Hougham, I randomly got asked to be in Kelsey Murphy's Cornish College of the Arts Senior BFA Performance, which will be on the 16th and 17th of February. Wednesday I had my first rehearsal, and tonight is my second. Things are lining up! 

IN OTHER NEWS PINA 3D IS COMING TO CINERAMA FEBRUARY 10TH AND I AM SO EXCITED! It will be glorious.

FTW!

THIS GUY! THIS GUY RIGHT HERE!

(It says "Congratulations!" Sorry the picture isn't the finest, it was taken with my phone.)