Small successes

Got to celebrate them!

So, now that I've put that extra eight bars into the choreography, everything has settled into a much more regular structure, and I have started to be able to hear the different parts of the music and the shifts between them.

Which means that today I managed to dance the whole thing through twice without getting lost. And on one of those occasions the stick nearly fell off my head and I had to grab it and do some improvisation with it before getting it balanced again and joining back in when the next section arrived.

Admittedly this is partly because I simplified one of the choruses, but it's early days and I may be able to de-simplify it now I understand how it all fits together. (As long as I remember all this tomorrow.)

The skirt arrived and needs turning up, but the sewing machine is in the conservatory and I'm not going to sit in a glass room in 29C weather. I'll do that this evening.

So instead I've read and edited another chapter of my podfic of Guanyin's Gift. In which Jin Guangyao gets to do his life all over again from the age of eight. Armed with a lifetime of cultivation and spy skills, and a lifetime's knowledge of the politics of the cultivation world, he gets it much more right this time around.

A Podfic of 'Guanyin's Gift' by Galadhir

You can't build a goddess of mercy a large temple and pay for priests to worship her every day without earning at least some merit. Aka, by divine mercy, Jin Guangyao gets a chance to do his life all over again.