random thoughts - Day 2,005 (Friday) - job apps and dance prep

Even without the schedule of Monday through Friday work and days where I can do whatever I want, Friday still has the special feel it always did. For now. Maybe with time and prolonged unemployment that will change. 

This morning was invested in sitting at the recently set up desk, butt in chair, applying for jobs. Two applications took most of the morning, and a third was bailed on when the step immediately after uploading a resume was a series of screens requiring inputting the same information on the resume. Insanity. Based on the many applications already submitted that don't demand this archaic step, I thought we were finally past that. Dear company based in the Framingham area, please join the current century. Seriously.

Pan fried bow ties.

After the job applications and the accompanying frustration there was dance practice, harder now that the sofa eats up space in the living room, but it sure is nice to sit on. After the practicing, there was lunch of pan fried leftover bow tie pasta tossed with black olives, roasted tomato carrot, and pesto sauce tossed with the last of the cream cheese. The tasty lunch was followed by some lounging about, adoration of Kiki, and word games on the phone. 

The dance bag was inventoried and costume components gathered for Saturday's performance. Veils, paillette hip scarf and halter top, black top for under the halter top, petal skirt, shoes for dancing on asphalt. Check! 

The practice space we used for years is in a building that was sold last spring and the  new owner made some changes that were not beneficial to us and the yoga studio we sublet from. We are now in a different (larger) space in a different town. 

New dance space!

The drive to the new space, much like the drive to the former space, is along winding, wooded country roads. One stretch of it passes a lake that sparkled in the evening sunshine. There are no shopping plazas along the way and I may have Family Dollar and Market Basket withdrawal pains, which were regular stops on the drive home for many years. 

We ran though our dance program and figured out spacing for the smaller number of us tomorrow. We have gotten really good at adapting our configurations to the number of us available for any given performance and tomorrow we'll have two lines instead of three. Costume colors were plotted. Tomorrow, we dance!