04 February 2012

Chateau Karamakov

I promise there will be cast iron update soon.

I can't stop watching Dance Academy. It's this Australian show that's basically Center Stage, except... a tv show, and Australian? and Better. capital B Better.

I had my sacral/pelvic/lumbar/thoracic dysfunction fixed -- the osteopath got the right side of my pelvis to drop down 3/4" back to level, which untucked my sacrum from where it was pinching my sciatic nerve, and he said he was very impressed with the amount of work it took to get my pelvis screwed up like that -- and my range of motion on my left side is suddenly nearly equal to that of my right side. There's clearly more work to be done; I have to relearn my alignment all over again, and all the muscles in my back are trying to figure out how to be in the proper place, which can be painful. I obviously don't want to overdo it and put myself back into sacral misery, especially since I have no idea how I got there in the first place. But, it's refreshing to know that I'm not just incapable of doing anything to the left in ballet.

Edited to add a kitten picture: