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SO CLOSE TO BECOMING PATRICK CHAN
Jan. 14th, 2010 10:11 pmGUYS. TODAY I ICE SKATED! For the first time since a girl scout trip when I was like 10. It was HILARIOUS. I am not athletic, and in particular I lack balance. Oh my god, though, it was fun. And embarrassing! But fun. Luckily the place was not at all crowded and luckily it was NYC so everyone just left us alone to shuffle along the wall.
So yeah, when we first got onto the ice we were like (we being Katie and I) "What the fuck, how does anyone move on this?" Like, the people who were skating just normally, propelling themselves forward, it looked like sinister magicks. We literally just stopped and stared at them and were like ". . . whut." So we yoinked ourselves shuffling along the wall, just sort of pulling ourselves into the corner. Then we regrouped, stared at what people were doing, and started trying to lean into the skates a bit.
Katie got really good at a sort of shuffling technique, but I was pretty much clinging to the wall until eventually I started managing to push off and glide a bit on two feet while keeping my balance. Starting to fall backwards was a big thing. We both just fell once each but if we had not been near the wall it would have been a lot more! But I figured out if I concentrated all my attention on balancing, I could stay upright without hanging on! By the end I was pushing off and gliding and pushing off and going a bit faster than I had been and barely ever reaching out to steady myself!
Still looked ridiculous, and I cannot for the life of me push off or lift my left foot at all. So I basically am like a skateboarder. I guess they're both skating? :D But we got WAY better at the whole thing than at the start. Of course, there was no where to go but up! Still, we looked at it, we thought about it, we practiced, and we improved! Enormous sense of accomplishment!
Also enormous sense of amusement at how ridiculous we were out there! And also pretty significant sense of tired. For me skating involves basically keeping your calf muscles tense the whole time, so they're a little tingly. Afterwards we were all OH MY GOD MUST SIT.
I am really glad I went with Katie this first time, and not someone I'm less comfortable with. We were both exceedingly awkward and able to laugh at ourselves the whole time. I need to learn to pick up my left foot, generally get smoother and more comfortable with picking up my feet, and improve my balance. Even as I got better, there were plenty of moments where I would feel myself going backwards. And falling is fine but if I fell away from the wall I don't see how I'd be able to get back up?
Friday night from midnight to 7 AM is Williams Trivia. Katie says I should go over to her place to do it but I don't know. It's my last weekend before roommate gets home and I want to chillax and do a massive vacuuming, and I have plans with friend!Charles on Sunday so I don't want to be spending Saturday night at Katie's and after doing trivia you just sleep all day Saturday. On the other hand, I love Trivia. Big T and little t trivia. Katie can't come to my place because of the cat. It is a dilemma.
EDIT: Oh my god, I totally remembered what I was going to say, jeez I'm dumb. I saw The Princess and the Frog yesterday with friend!Corey and it was AWESOME. I loved it. I thought it was adorable and funny and I liked the songs. And most importantly, I loved the visual look of the film. I thought it was gorgeous. One of the most attractive animated movies that I've ever seen, I think. I'm a pretty visual person, so a movie being aesthetically pleasing to me is a major, major factor in my enjoyment of it and I just loved looking at this one. More conventional animation please! If it's pretty! Oh my god, the scene with the fireflies. And the art deco song about the restaurant.
My main issues with the movie are that I loved the way Tiana was animated, I thought she was super-pretty, but then she spent most of her time as a frog and the frogs were cute and expressive enough, but I didn't really like the way they looked thaaat much, especially Tiana (cos she was skinny and skinny frogs are weird). And then I also thought they hit pretty hard with the "You have to work hard *_* !!!" thing. A little bit less singing about it would have been good.
Apart from how pretty it was, my favorite part of the movie? Raymond! At first I was like "ewww" but they did such a good job giving him facial expressions that he was so cute!! And i don't know cajun accents so maybe it was cringeworthy but to me I thought the VA did a great job. Raymond is awesome.
So yeah, when we first got onto the ice we were like (we being Katie and I) "What the fuck, how does anyone move on this?" Like, the people who were skating just normally, propelling themselves forward, it looked like sinister magicks. We literally just stopped and stared at them and were like ". . . whut." So we yoinked ourselves shuffling along the wall, just sort of pulling ourselves into the corner. Then we regrouped, stared at what people were doing, and started trying to lean into the skates a bit.
Katie got really good at a sort of shuffling technique, but I was pretty much clinging to the wall until eventually I started managing to push off and glide a bit on two feet while keeping my balance. Starting to fall backwards was a big thing. We both just fell once each but if we had not been near the wall it would have been a lot more! But I figured out if I concentrated all my attention on balancing, I could stay upright without hanging on! By the end I was pushing off and gliding and pushing off and going a bit faster than I had been and barely ever reaching out to steady myself!
Still looked ridiculous, and I cannot for the life of me push off or lift my left foot at all. So I basically am like a skateboarder. I guess they're both skating? :D But we got WAY better at the whole thing than at the start. Of course, there was no where to go but up! Still, we looked at it, we thought about it, we practiced, and we improved! Enormous sense of accomplishment!
Also enormous sense of amusement at how ridiculous we were out there! And also pretty significant sense of tired. For me skating involves basically keeping your calf muscles tense the whole time, so they're a little tingly. Afterwards we were all OH MY GOD MUST SIT.
I am really glad I went with Katie this first time, and not someone I'm less comfortable with. We were both exceedingly awkward and able to laugh at ourselves the whole time. I need to learn to pick up my left foot, generally get smoother and more comfortable with picking up my feet, and improve my balance. Even as I got better, there were plenty of moments where I would feel myself going backwards. And falling is fine but if I fell away from the wall I don't see how I'd be able to get back up?
Friday night from midnight to 7 AM is Williams Trivia. Katie says I should go over to her place to do it but I don't know. It's my last weekend before roommate gets home and I want to chillax and do a massive vacuuming, and I have plans with friend!Charles on Sunday so I don't want to be spending Saturday night at Katie's and after doing trivia you just sleep all day Saturday. On the other hand, I love Trivia. Big T and little t trivia. Katie can't come to my place because of the cat. It is a dilemma.
EDIT: Oh my god, I totally remembered what I was going to say, jeez I'm dumb. I saw The Princess and the Frog yesterday with friend!Corey and it was AWESOME. I loved it. I thought it was adorable and funny and I liked the songs. And most importantly, I loved the visual look of the film. I thought it was gorgeous. One of the most attractive animated movies that I've ever seen, I think. I'm a pretty visual person, so a movie being aesthetically pleasing to me is a major, major factor in my enjoyment of it and I just loved looking at this one. More conventional animation please! If it's pretty! Oh my god, the scene with the fireflies. And the art deco song about the restaurant.
My main issues with the movie are that I loved the way Tiana was animated, I thought she was super-pretty, but then she spent most of her time as a frog and the frogs were cute and expressive enough, but I didn't really like the way they looked thaaat much, especially Tiana (cos she was skinny and skinny frogs are weird). And then I also thought they hit pretty hard with the "You have to work hard *_* !!!" thing. A little bit less singing about it would have been good.
Apart from how pretty it was, my favorite part of the movie? Raymond! At first I was like "ewww" but they did such a good job giving him facial expressions that he was so cute!! And i don't know cajun accents so maybe it was cringeworthy but to me I thought the VA did a great job. Raymond is awesome.
