the last of the great long-legged dancers

RIP Cyd Charisse.

It would not be strictly accurate to say that Cyd Charisse made me into a lesbian.

But on the rainy Friday afternoon in my seventh-grade year when the music teacher decided to shut everybody up and give us a little culture by showing us highlights from Singin' In The Rain ('Make 'em Laugh', the title number, the ballet), the girl sitting next to me sighed 'God, I want to be her', and I found myself not saying that actually I just wanted her.

She's still the woman I think about when I think about beautiful women in the movies, and probably always will be. I love a lot of her later work (except Silk Stockings, which is intolerable), but that sequence, her green dress, Gene Kelly-- that's immortality, right there.

the last of the great long-legged dancers

RIP Cyd Charisse.

It would not be strictly accurate to say that Cyd Charisse made me into a lesbian.

But on the rainy Friday afternoon in my seventh-grade year when the music teacher decided to shut everybody up and give us a little culture by showing us highlights from Singin' In The Rain ('Make 'em Laugh', the title number, the ballet), the girl sitting next to me sighed 'God, I want to be her', and I found myself not saying that actually I just wanted her.

She's still the woman I think about when I think about beautiful women in the movies, and probably always will be. I love a lot of her later work (except Silk Stockings, which is intolerable), but that sequence, her green dress, Gene Kelly-- that's immortality, right there.

new job

I am officially no longer employed at Nearby Giant University's accessibility and technology center; I had known since getting the job that it was going to end about this time, slightly after the university let out for the summer. It was a good job, paid well and I liked it, but I don't think I want to do it anymore, as I dislike sitting at a computer all day trying to work and then sitting at a computer all night trying to write, and for the last while I was working from home and it was the same computer, and just, no.

I have managed to find a part-time clerkship at Local Specialty Spice Store. It is retail and it does not pay as well, but at least it is specialty retail involving a set of products I know something about and for which it will be nice to have discounts. (I'm going to need, like, six more spice racks. I can tell.) Also when I have been in the store it has been quiet, nice-smelling and not terribly busy. So okay then.

If the scheduling works out, I may try to find a second part-time job, but I want to settle into this one first.

new job

I am officially no longer employed at Nearby Giant University's accessibility and technology center; I had known since getting the job that it was going to end about this time, slightly after the university let out for the summer. It was a good job, paid well and I liked it, but I don't think I want to do it anymore, as I dislike sitting at a computer all day trying to work and then sitting at a computer all night trying to write, and for the last while I was working from home and it was the same computer, and just, no.

I have managed to find a part-time clerkship at Local Specialty Spice Store. It is retail and it does not pay as well, but at least it is specialty retail involving a set of products I know something about and for which it will be nice to have discounts. (I'm going to need, like, six more spice racks. I can tell.) Also when I have been in the store it has been quiet, nice-smelling and not terribly busy. So okay then.

If the scheduling works out, I may try to find a second part-time job, but I want to settle into this one first.