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My favourite and, arguably, my best dance when I competed. But that matters not in this competition!

Wow, Kherrington looks hot!! Twitch too, for that matter. Music is too fast for a paso, but its just an intro I suppose. Twitch needs more matador-like awareness, he’s the bullfighter dammit – where’s the bull? I love Kherrington and she’s doing a decent job but I don’t feel the tension of the bullfight, Angry stares do not tension make. And she’s the cape, she doesn’t get the right to be angry. Ugh.

Score: 7/10.

Ok, I have a problem, this music is a fantastic samba, so I am missing the face that they aren’t doing that dance instead. Not feeling the connection between them, or the conviction for that matter. I like the spins, wish I could spin like that, never did manage that. Huh, looked like they botched the ending.

Didn’t hate it.

Score: 7/10.

Now this is choreography I can get into, I love this slow hip hop stuff that we’re seeing this season. Nicely synchronised, the occasional connection between them as partners. Is it good hip hop? I don’t know, but I’m enjoying it. Wasn’t in your face-excitement but did it for me.

Score: 8/10

Man, I love Tyce’ Broadway routines, though this is a little more mellow than usual. Not really feeling it from these two, I must say. Don’t know if it’s the choreography or the performance but I didn’t get much out of that. I thought Komfort did more than Thayne.

Score 6/10.

oops, it wasn’t Tyce, maybe that was the problem.

So.. Jive is about lightness and speed of feet, and down into the floor. Starting out of the gate well with some flicks but it has rapidly become slow and laboured. Jive is hard! In the ballroom world we dance it last after 4 other latin dances so it’s a real test of stamina. These two should be able to keep the energy going.

Great choreography from Tony and Melanie (whom I used to take coaching from in NY).

Score – 7/10.

I keep threatening to do it, tonight I finally am! Keep tuned for my thoughts on each couple as they dance. Yeah, I can feel your excitement.

Yeah, I am still alive (as you would know if you follow my twittering), at least by the medical definitions. Some random stuff….

• ever since saying I was cutting back on food and alcohol it seems like I have vastly increased the amount of each I am consuming; this needs to stop
• my department at work is at the beginning of a big re-organisation with London taking all the power, which probably means layoffs. Am I at risk? I’d say somewhat. Maybe less than some, definitely more than others. Time will tell.
• was supposed to be going back to England for a couple of days for work but the changes have that on hold until the end of July, if at all
• the annual bonus is due July 3rd, am eyeing up purchases such as a Kindle for Teri, an iPhone for me, or perhaps Apple TV. Oh, and a Lear Jet if I’ve done really well
• summer is here in the Imperial Valley, last weekend saw 116F/47C, night temps are still down to the high 70’s though for now

Er, that’s it I guess. As you can see, nothing going on worthy of the electrons.

I have very vivid dreams when I sleep, often I can’t remember them but sometimes, if I make a real effort at the time, I do: like this one from Friday night.

Teri, Erin and I are at db‘s place. We’re looking at puppies and kittens for adoption; db has a ton of them up for grabs. After playing with some animals a while, db says he knows what would go really well with the kitten we like. He disappears for a bit and comes back with a red haired baby and puts him in my lap. He’s cute, the kitten’s cute so we say we’ll take them both. And that was pretty much it.

Often I try to interpret my dreams, or at least the thoughts that triggered them, but this one I am leaving alone.

I’m so tired of the lazy asses at work. We’re supposed to be professionals but perhaps because we are in the games industry it’s ok to be an immature lazy ass?

• At least 3 or 4 times a week the stalls in the toilets don’t get flushed, or the person before me has flushed but left the seat protector on the seat. If you don’t think my ass is clean enough that you want yours touching the same seat, what makes you think I want to pick up a piece of paper that your oh-so-clean derrière has been on? And as for not flushing at all, there are no words fit for this blog.
• We get free sodas at work, it’s a fairly new thing and proving pretty popular. It didn’t take long for our admin assistant to decide she was above restocking the fridge so now its up to us to keep it supplied. No big deal, see it empty – go get some cans. But no, see it empty, leave it that way until someone else does it for you. Or, go to the cupboard and take one can for yourself and leave the fridge empty. What next – you need me to flush the toilet for you??? Ah, yes….

Sadly, unavailable in the US in any format, so you’ll have to go to the British or antipodean music outlets to get a copy of the single or her album. Anyway, a bit of an Amy Winehouse feel to her voice but in a cute 16 year old Australian body, rather than a worn out drugged one. Without further ado, here’s Gabriella Cilmi with Sweet About Me: