I want pancakes!

So much thinking has been going on in my brain (hard to believe, en't it?) that I couldn't sleep last night. Not tired at all today and was crazy energetic at the gym this morning at 5:45, which means that all of the intense thinking just happened to coincide with my monthly night of insomnia, which hasn't been happening on its usual regular basis since I started working full time. I guess with the long weekend, I had stored up about 6 hours of unneeded sleep (I get 6 hours of sleep per night, on average).

You know when you go strawberry picking and then try to take a nap, and you see millions of strawberries milling around behind your eyelids? Or when you play too much Diablo and you spend the entire subsequent night watching your character traverse miles of dungeons in your head? That was last night, except I couldn't stop rumba-ing, OVER and OVER again. The same simple little routine, which is a good thing, since I need to remember everything I learned at the lesson last night, and then at the practice afterward... During which I was told that everything was taught a little bit off at the lesson, so I had to unlearn unfinessed things and learn new and nitpickier things. It was about 3 hours of dance. I think the things I need to focus on the most at this early stage are:

- Make sure my weight is completely on my standing leg.
- Counting and measuring figures and movements with AND, as in one AND two AND three AND, etc., without screwing myself up.
- Settling from one hip to the other. Hard.
- Elbow in.
- Names of figures (alemana? hip twist? switch turn? fan position? hockey stick?).

Learning American style before international really screwed up my conceptualization of how to count rumba. Tonight is a hustle lesson, and I'm going to a waltz workshop for 3 hours on Sunday, in Greensboro. I need to completely immerse myself, surround myself with this. I need to get to the point where I feel it "click," as soon as possible.

And on the workfront, there is lots to do, which is definitely pleasant. I LOVE having things to do!