wet

It's wet outside.

I mean really wet.

There are accidents on nearly every highway in the area, as well as much flooding. There is reportedly snow on HWY 9 in the Santa Cruz mountains. My shoes, socks, and legs of my pants got really wet just walking the 50 feet from the building door and my car.

I am not looking forward to the drive home tonight,

took the words right out of my mouth

In the collective imagination, we suppose that dancers are always self-confident creatures, comfortable enough in their bodies to spend night after night on stage in skin-tight leotards. But the neuroses of the dance world are intense and omnipresent, and no dancer is exempt.

"Just because I'm in this profession doesn't mean it's not hard as hell every day to get into a leotard and look at myself in the mirror. It doesn't mean that it's not hard every day. It requires some fortitude, more than I think people realize, more than I think my colleagues realize. They get so surprised when we have a costume fitting and I'm feeling really edgy, because they forget that size is an issue for me."

--Alexandra Beller, modern dancer

This is an excerpt from an article (more at the link above) written by Marina Wolf, founder and director of Big Moves, that ran in Radiance Magazine in 2000.