Busy few days. I had my interview yesterday and I think it went well, but I never can tell. I’ll know next week.
I am watching figure skating now, which used to be one of my favorite things to watch. I guess that’s because my dad and I would watch it together. Now it’s just … eh. Most of the professional skaters are the amateurs I didn’t like years ago, and the professionals I do like have retired … I have a great love for Robin Cousins. Sigh. But he hasn’t skated on TV in years. The best performance I ever saw was in 1994, when the national championships were in Detroit. My mom and I went to the men’s finals. Rudy Galindo, who then was known really for being Kristi Yamaguchi’s pairs partner, was skating solo. His performance brought tears to my eyes and the crowd to its feet. But Brian Boitano and Scott Davis ended up going to the Olympics, and it was pretty much a disaster from what I recall. That also was the year Nancy Kerrigan got whacked; we missed that by a few hours. A year and a day later I dislocated my knee ice skating, thus ending my late-blooming delusions of ice princess glamour.
I have been so stressed out over this course I am writing, the first one I am tackling from start to finish. I am just about done with it and as I was reading through my text, I had the thought of I am a really good writer. I need to do more than write in this blog. I have so many ideas that I start and then abandon. I need to focus. Not one of my strong suits, sadly. Not at all.
*Who remembers which “classic” skating-themed movie that line is from? The actor just had a birthday a few days ago.
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Monique on 01.27.2007 
You are a damn good writer. It’s just a matter of focusing and setting aside some time. Do it! LOL
You’ll get the job. I made a few calls.
Comment by
Mr. Fabulous (Who am I?) - January 27, 2007 5:49 pm
The only skating saga I could think of was Cutting Edge…not that it’s necessarily a “classic” (except for those of us so uncool we can identify with the lyrics of 1985). God I had such a crush on DB Sweeney.
Comment by
Izzy (Who am I?) - January 27, 2007 7:50 pm
Oh and as embarrassing as it is to admit…I owned a Brian Boitano poster.
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Izzy (Who am I?) - January 27, 2007 7:55 pm
Mr. Fab — If security is waiting for me Monday morning, at least now I’ll know why!
Izzy — I love love love the Cutting Edge. I saw it so many times in the theater. And Brian Boitano? Ugh. I was a Brian Orser girl myself. But no, the quote isn’t from the Cutting Edge. Think even cheesier …
Comment by
Monique (Who am I?) - January 28, 2007 9:26 am
Ice Castles??
Comment by
Snarky Cool (Who am I?) - January 28, 2007 1:35 pm
YES!!!! Ice Castles!!!
Sorry I don’t have a prize. If you had a blog, I’d send you traffic.
Hint hint hint.
Comment by
Monique (Who am I?) - January 28, 2007 2:15 pm