muse

I’m sitting here waiting for midnight, and realized that as long as I’m not going to be able to sleep, I might as well give this poor old blog some love.

So much has been happening. Work has been incredibly hard lately. I think I’ve been promoted twice (seriously) since I last wrote. I’m now managing a team of developers and a bevy of contractors. I love the challenges of it, but I find it scary and people management is much more bewildering than I expected.

The fabled summer trip ended up taking us to Mexico, where we spent a week on the Mayan Rivera, in a resort about 20 minutes south of Playa del Carmen. It was exactly what I needed. We rented a car one day and drove into the interior of the peninsula, taking the opportunity to see Chichen Itza and Ek Balam. On another day, we did Tulum and one of those adventure parks where you do a couple of zip lines and rappel into a cave, where we got to do some pretty amazing cave snorkeling through a (very cold) underground river. The rest of the time we spent on the beach, where I read copious trashy novels and watched the storms out at sea. Thankfully, few of them came ashore, and we had sun most of the time we were there. I’ve posted a few pictures on Flickr should you care to take a look.

What else? I have successfully taught my first ever beginning belly dance class. I had a lot of fun, and I think the girls did too. I wasn’t as into the technicalities as I probably needed to be, but I achieved my personal goal of making it a fun and supportive environment. I really enjoyed teaching, and found teaching a physical subject to be an interesting challenge. It is difficult to describe how something feels, and to come up with appropriate analogies to illustrate it. Everyone’s body feels things differently. I actually found that sometimes, actually physically guiding the movement for them was the only way to get the movement across. I have a good starting arsenal of descriptions ready now, though, so hopefully the next time will be easier.

I was quite pleased with Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. I finished it the weekend after it came out, as I was unable to get a copy in Mexico. Yes, I even looked at having Amazon ship it to me, but it was going to cost $40 and would maybe reach me before I left to come home again, so I opted to hold out until I was back in the states. It was murderous. I’m still reluctant to hold forth on the book too much lest some poor unenlightened soul stumble across this. So more later.

Steve’s family came in this weekend and we had a good time. We took the nieces to see the stage production of Hight School Musical that Zach Scott is doing. I have to admit … I really liked it. It was adorable. A wholesome Grease for the tween generation. I leve the theater bopping along with a big stupid grin on my face. Love or hate the corporate entity, there’s something indefinable about Disney Magic.

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