Saturday, September 23, 2006
Hip replacement next?
I leant over the barre, my hair stuck to my forehead, and stretched my leg-warmer clad leg behind me."I completely can't do ronde de jamb en l'air," I said to Hannah. This is where you put your leg in the air to the front, and carry it round to the back. So you go from the position on the left and end in the position on the right of this post.
"I know, it's impossible," she said.
I took a sip of my water and thumped my leg over the barre to stretch it out. "It's like, I can move it so far round but then I have to drop it in order to get round my hip." I paused. "I feel old."
"You know what that's called?" Hannah said. "It's called having a pelvis."
by billygean.co.uk at 5:34 PM |
4 Comments:
1) Love, love, love Time Traveler's Wife!!!!
2) Nothing makes you feel old like having arthritis (arthritis!) in your hips. They get achy when it gets cold. Can't lift leg higher than 45 degrees. Am shamed in class full of 14-year-old stringbeans who have neither a pelvis nor any idea that arthritis exists!
1) it's so good. I am so addicted, I am barely doing any work. Bloody confusing though!
2) Annoying as shit isn't it? my foot is pathetic. But hey, we're still dancin'.
How are you?
Oh man, how I wish I could start up ballet again. I am so inflexible though that I can hardly lift my legs up higher than 45 degrees now. Ugh.
Pelvis or no ;), you will forever be more flexible than me. Even when you're eighty.
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