I actually managed to get my three pages due Monday for criticism done on Thursday, and I got my two psychology papers done this weekend. Surprising even when you don't take into account that I had my dance recital yesterday and two of my aunts (one from Texas, one from Maryland) here to distract me!

To those of you surprised about the dance thing... I took dance lessons from Lynette here in Columbus for fourteen years, from 1991 to 2005. I probably don't seem like much of a dancer to you, and if you know me in real life, you'd probably be doubly surprised at my dance training. (To put it mildly, I'm not at all graceful.) But if you meet a girl who grew up in Columbus, Nebraska and DIDN'T take dance lessons (either from Lynette or Barb), well, she's in the definite minority. It's just something that most girls in this town do. And so did I. I was never all that good (I was best at tap dancing, because you only really had to focus on your legs and not your arms too), but I did enjoy it and I'm sure it's about the only thing that kept me even halfway in shape back then.

The reason I was in the dance recital this year was because it was Lynette's twenty-fifth recital. (Which I find pretty much impossible to believe, because this woman just DOESN'T AGE. And yet she's at the very least forty-five years old, probably older. ) She invited back the alumni (about three hundred of us) to come back and dance, and ninety or so actually did. I was actually one of the youngest in that dance. We got the DVD with Lynette showing us the dance a few months ago, and have had a couple of rehearsals at Lynette's place. I gotta tell you... this was probably the most fun I've ever had at a dance recital. It was fairly low-key for me, especially compared to my high school days of having like five costume changes. And I didn't feel nearly as self-conscious up there on stage as I used to. It was a lot of fun. And even better--this year was my nieces' very first dance recital, so I got to dance in the same recital with them! They were SO CUTE up there, I gotta say. (Even though I was in the recital, since I was only in the one dance I got to watch the rest of it.)

Another anniversary this weekend was today--my church is apparently one hundred and fifty years old this year. So church today was at the New World Inn with singing and a lunch served afterwards (New World Inn is a hotel/conference center that's ideal for these sorts of things). So it's been a kind of monumental weekend, and very busy for me. I'm still surprised I got even some of my homework done.

I still have tons left to do before graduation, though. I'm feeling better about my actual ability to get stuff done in a decent manner, though. Hopefully this confidence will continue this week and the next. Tomorrow Faye and I are going to UNO to officially register for our library science graduate study classes. It looks like we're probably going to room together right in Blair, which will be nice. The classes at UNO only meet like once a month, so there's really no real reason to live in Omaha... which is fine with me. I like living close to a big city, but I'm not sure I'd actually like living IN it.

See you all next week! Hope you're all doing well, and again, I'm sorry for not drawing and commenting as much. Maybe by June I'll have time for art again.