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For all my talk of sewing, it seems to me that I haven't actually done all that much of it. I know that's technically not true, because a good chunk of last year's output was not for me, such as dance costumes and presents. Since I didn't do a "Recap of 2005" post, this will be a pale shade of what such a post might have been, ( were it entirely sewing-related. )

I really have to do something about my jumps, they're just not right. In ballet I'm fine, but in jazz and lyrical, I can't see any improvement over when we started in September, especially on my not-quite-stag-leaps-started-facing-backwards-with-front-leg-straight-and-back-arched. I'm not sure what the problem is; I'm probably not giving myself enough of a push, but there's that and the turning and the cambré and the arms and GAH! It's really frustrating. I'm trying to think of a way to help myself -- obviously, arriving a bit early on Thursday to practice before I start teaching would be one. Would losing weight help? I'm seriously considering it. Also, teaching myself to jump in slow motion and have third-person perspective multi-angle vision would be great, though probably not possible by June.