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Friday, November 20th, 2009
3:15 pm	Zamboni Break #1: Post-Ladies Short Gave up on IceNetwork very early in the pairs competition, split my viewing between RadioCanada and CCTV5 streamed on a website that looked much like the one I watched the Davis Cup Karlovic-Stepanek epic on. I should have done this from the start; best viewing I've had all series. Will miss about half the CD tonight due to dinner, but at least the first half should be good(unless RadioCanada suddenly doesn't cover it, but I'm pretty sure they cover everything Bold covers. ( Though there's no way it'll match that ladies' short... ) Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Eric Clapton-My Father's Eyes (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
6:10 am	Skate Canada Alternate title: "And I grit my teeth and prepare to endure IceNetwork again..." I hope CCTV5 covers at least some of it. Or someone on TVAnts covers the ladies' competition live, even though neither Yu-Na nor Mao nor Miki are competing. Ladies: Joannie, Akiko, Laura. Actually, I have no idea what twists and turns are going to happen here, and my instinct would only whisper "Alissa," who I don't dare predict for fear of jinxing her, so I'm going with the sort of standard projection that you expect there to be some sort of deviation from. Laura Lepisto I have as the bronze medalist because the judges really do seem to like her, perhaps more than they should. Also looking foward to: C'mon, Mirai, let's do better! Pairs: Savchenko-Szolkowy, Mukhortova-Trankov, Dubé-Davison. Though I would not mind in the slightest if the latter two switched places, or even if S&S took themselves out and let someone else battle for silver and bronze at the GPF; things'll get clogged enough on the podium come Vancouver. Also looking forward to: Langlois & Hay, and whether either of the second two Canadian teams seems really in shape to take the second spot. Ice Dance: Virtue-Moir, Pechelat-Bourzat, Samuelson-Bates. Whatever suspense was in this competition withdrew along with Faiella and Scali. Also looking forward to: Weaver and Pojé doing better than they did in China, please? Nothing against Crone and Poirier, but I kind of really want these two in Vancouver. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
8:51 am	Oddly enough, throughout the normal high school rounds of classic American literature, though I read both Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie, I never read or learned much about A Streetcar Named Desire. I remember my English teacher made a list including it and some other works, and told us to choose two of them to read, and I went with two others. So I went in to see it at the Kennedy Center last night all ready to take in and be educated about this Great Work of American Literature(tm), and see Cate Blanchett perform live in the process.(I also noticed a Star Wars credit in the Stanley's bio-turns out it was the guy who played Owen Lars in the prequels. He was impressive; I didn't make the connection until I Wookiepediaed him just now.) During the first act I started to think it had become dated. It felt long and like it couldn't carry itself and that only Cate was carrying it. She was brilliant as Blanche, no debate about that from the start, and the character herself is a vivid one, though one I think would be very easy to mess up(obviously Cate did not). But the rest left me with a distinct feeling that it would have impressed audiences of the time more. I've heard since it's usually performed with cuts, and that it wasn't here. I've also heard that this production made it much more Blanche-centered than it usually is, though with Cate blowing everyone else out, it might as well have. During the first part of the second act, this continued. Then, suddenly, the plot picked up, the writing became much more powerful, Cate and Blanche both turned it up to eleven, and I understood why this really was such a Great Work of American Literature(tm). Mom was in tears during the end; I don't blame her. This morning I woke up, had breakfast, debated whether or not to blog about this, planned for my Latin homework, and finally just now went to YouTube to see some of the Dancing With the Stars results show, since I'd already streamed the dances from Monday night yesterday morning, though I didn't think much of the results; I was pretty sure Donny was going home, and one thing I'd discovered during the first half of this season is that my instincts are getting pretty good for predicting who goes. And as with when L'il Kim got tossed out last year, ( it says enough that I'm feeling the need to cut this... ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
9:10 am	So I'm sitting in the Verizon Center, having just shown mom some vids, including one of Johnny, and they're setting up for the TV broadcast of Kaleidescope, and I'm smiling tolerably through the first of the technical screwups and repeats. The skaters come onto the ice, I'm clapping and cheering, tonight's gonna be a good, good night-and then I realize Johnny isn't in the line-up. It's about the time Scott's coming out for his Big Return that it occurs to me that since the 10th, when he was still sick, the only peep out of Johnny was a single tweet on the 13th about Lady Gaga, and that such silence isn't usual for him these days, especially if it leads fans to shock disappointments. At that point I'm having nightmares about broken legs or fatal illnesses or who knows what else he would avoid announcing, and most of the performances of the first half fly over my head. My mom really likes Nancy Kerrigan and Meryl and Charlie, and Ashley does a beautiful performance with the synchro team to one of the AI Davids singing "Silent Night" live, and Viktor's a unexpected cowboy hanging around, but the thing I notice most is the extreme hyping of Brandon Mroz by Scott Hamilton. Can we say, next Great Straight Hope? Never mind that noone came to the show to see him.(To his credit, he did skate well. If only he could have managed the jumps). Around the time Alexe Gilles unexpectedly led off the second half to ye old Beyonce smash(all the singles ladies, lace your boots up!), I wonder briefly if Johnny pulled out of the show ages ago, or maybe just Saturday night/Sunday morning when he more or less qualified for the GPF, and this management was just too incompetent to announce it! Despite the obvious question of why he didn't announce either, I decided to believe this for the sake of my sanity, and enjoyed the second half more. Watching Meryl and Charlie perform the "Music of the Night" portion of their free, I instantly forgave them their choice of music this year and understood why their scores are so damn high. But oh, Ashley. You were the highlight of the night for me, and as my favorites have failed me you must be my favorite now, and cheer me up at Nationals and the Olympics after Johnny doesn't make it to Vancouver and Tanith and Ben fall to Meryl and Charlie. Even if you were skating to Miley Cyrus. Towards the end as the tech screwups began to pile up and the skating was rudely interrupted by AI kids singing unaccompanied numbers, mom and I both began waiting for the show to just end already, but a late treat was Kristi's second number, in which her soft, beautiful skating was pure magic(her first number was kind of fun too, but I was too busy fretting about the State of Johnny at the time to really enjoy it). Mom is now extremely indignant that we were part of a show that was broadcast on Fox(I admit I didn't really pay attention to which network was doing it; you just assume they're all on NBC these days), and any future televised events held in DC I will probably have to go to alone, but I don't think I would have minded nearly as much, since in skating these days you take what you get, had Johnny just been there, or even if I'd known beforehand he wasn't going to be, and I could have cheered myself better with Ashley and Meryl and Charlie. And now I wake up to the news of Andrei Lutai's little joyriding adventure.. Perhaps it's evil of me, but right now I'm glad for the laugh. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
6:46 am	I am starting to wish I hadn't let IceNetwork resume my subscription; again the stream is frozen and I suspect it will by and large stay that way for the rest of the year. Yesterday I finally decided I'd had enough and downloaded TVAnts, where I was able to watch the first half of the ladies free on SBS and the ice dance on CCTV5. ( Speaking of ice dance... ) Today I go into GMU, and tonight, I am seeing Johnny Weir! And Ashely Wagner! And Meryl and Charlie(though I'm kind of irritated at them for the moment, but that's not their fault. Well, except that they made it worse by skating to Phantom). Oh, and some other skaters. I spent yesterday morning downloading vids for my mom to watch on my iPod, only to discover after I'd done the converting that Brandon Mroz was in the show too, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother add a vid of him to the playlist. (Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
5:01 pm	One Down, Five to Go Mailed off all the supplemental materials for my application to UCLA today, walking to the post office and back in the rain. I spent the morning searching through my old papers for scholarly samples, the entire time waiting for this computer to freeze, but after remaining off all day Wednesday it hasn't frozen since. So perhaps it has time in it yet. I'm a little worried about two of my recommendations but it's all out of my hands now. Got back and watched as much of the compulsory as the IceNetwork stream would allow; it was working a little better than last week. Now, however, as soon as I'm done writing this I will be off to Silver Spring to see the second half of Angels in America. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
7:28 am	Alternate title, "Well, so much for Sasha." Unless she does skate at Nationals and make Four Continents(I really don't see her making the Olympics). But I don't think she'll make it to Nationals. Ladies: Yu-Na, Rachael, Julia. Amusingly enough, bronze is a huge crapshoot here; this field was obviously originally designed to get Sasha and Rachael medals, though they were probably obliged to take Yu-Na in order to get the rest of the field the way they wanted it. I wouldn't mind if Elene won it, but Julia winning the short at RC gives her a better record than everyone else on the roster, though maybe Alexe would be close. Also looking forward to: Emily Hughes! Hopefully she'll do better than she did in Paris last year. Pairs: Shen-Zhao, Zhang-Zhang, Volososhar-Morozov. If the way the Zhangs outdistanced V&M in China is any indication. Also looking foward to: All three American pairs. I don't think it's even impossible for one of them to get a medal, if V&M have real trouble, but the interesting question will be how they stack up to each other. As reasonable predicted, with M&B, C&O, and E&L...or otherwise? Ice Dance: Belbin-Agosto, Khokhlova-Novitski, Cappellini-Lanotte. The question isn't even the podium at this point. The question is, how high will their scores be? Tanith and Ben don't just want to win, they really want to break 200. Also looking forward to: Mallory & Rand, and hey, as annoying as Mike and Nancy will no doubt be, perhaps they'll have info on her citizenship status(poor Copely and Stagniunas.) Current Mood: pensive Current Music: Coldplay-Viva la Vida (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
2:56 pm	Now this computer's day has really come This morning when I tried to turn the computer on, it turned itself back off mid-boot. When I tried to turn it on again, it turned half-on, and I had to unplug it, plug it back in, and turn it on again. Then it finally loaded-only to freeze up completely about two hours or so later. Repeat with the un-plugging and turning back on. It froze twice more this morning, by which time I decided it was time to start transferring more functions onto my laptop, so I spent the rest of the morning downloading and installing OpenOffice, so I could start transferring my written documents over. I just moved the new vampire novel I began after submitting the ice dance manuscript, and so far it seems to be working, though the reluctance of the laptop's space bar to work will no doubt become a big pain really quickly. When I'm done with this entry, I'll probably copy a few more vital files to the external hard drive, in case this machine dies completely on me, and finishing HTMLing the wayward section of Austenkin and do some uploading, so I can download my entire webpage to the laptop. I'll copy the music to the external drive too, though I'll still have to operate it from here since the laptop doesn't have a CD drive. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
2:53 pm	Turandot Dad declined to see the Met broadcast of Zefirelli Turandot yesterday, so mom and I went alone. From the start, when the hostess greeted us from the middle of the sets for the first act, it was clear what the star of the night was. I cannot deny those sets really were remarkable. Mom commented afterwards that one problem with Turandot is that we all have Pavarotti in our heads and when the poor sap singing Calef can't compare to such genius, he comes off as not very impressive. But as dad points out, Puccini probably thought the heroine of Turandot was Liu, and best in show marks definitely go to Marina Poplavskaya; after she was carried off, all you could think was, "okay, the opera can end quickly, composer's dead anyway, right?" But the true trouble was the broadcasting. Halfway through the first act green lines appeared on the screen and the sound started failing at moments. In the intermission a cinema employee was sure to tell us that it that the problem wasn't at their end, and the broadcast company was trying to fix it. But after struggling with the IceNetwork feed all this weekend, it was very trying indeed. Interviews included with the props master(an appropriate production for it), with a really old man who apparently has been playing bit parts at the Met for 50 years, and with a pair of trumpet players! (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
5:48 am	This is just a bad week One pairs short program. That's all I've managed to watch. One. Got in a little before nine last night and was promptly hit by a headache. Napped it off until midnight and turned on my laptop, waited for the IceNetwork stream...only to hear, when the compulsory was nearly halfway done, that they couldn't stream it because the Japanese weren't recording it, and of course IceNetwork doesn't have its own cameras abroad. There is no excuse for IceNetwork ever claiming they were going to stream it; there's no way they wouldn't know they couldn't. I'm tempted to write a very strongly worded email. Not that it would have made much difference in the end tonight. Even when the stream came on for the pairs short, nothing but frozen image. Every ten minutes or so, the stream would try to unfreeze, and spend half a minute with the image not changing and the sound going to hell. I haven't seen it this bad for this long since last year. Right after Rena and John skated, someone linked to a justin.tv stream in which I was able to watch Ksenia Krasilnikova & Konstantin Bezmaternikh ripoff Totmianmina and Marainin's Liberstraum, but it broke just after they got their scores. I went back to sleep, turned on the stream with the ladies beginning thinking it had to have changed by now, but nope. Meanwhile, though I had avoided thinking about the men having just skated at first, I saw a post mentioning Johnny, and I broke. I had to know. ( And quite frankly... ) I see Sarah Meier just finished skating. New costume for the samba, too. I think she should have kept the old one. Current Mood: bitchy Current Music: still stream IceNetwork. Best skating stream I ever heard. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
9:23 am	NHK Trophy Alternate title, "La, la, la, the men don't exist..." Like I'm not getting anxious despite my attempts to ignore... Ladies: Miki, Ashley, Yukari. I really hope, because that'll get Ashley to the Finale and make her a major frontrunner for Vancouver. I must have some singles skater there I can cheer enthusiastically for. Though first, since I'll be napping after the pairs, I hope I don't accidentally sleep through it! Also looking forward to: Sarah Meier. I wouldn't mind if she made the podium either(just not at Ashley's expense, please!) Pairs: Pang-Tong, Kavaguti-Smirnov, Denney-Barrett. Again I suppose gold could go either way, but that Pang and Tong beat K&S on the latter's home ice says a lot. Also looking forward to: Will Rena and John land that axel again? It looked so easy at TEB it's hard to call that a fluke, and if they get it here, it officially won't be. Ice Dance: Davis-White, Kerr-Kerr, Crone-Poirier. Hopefully with the second getting a high enough score to give them a chance at the Finale going into the score tiebreaker. Also looking forward to: Will Allie Hann-McCurdy and Micheal Coreno be able to save their careers with the magic of Shilband? Even if they don't, I hope to enjoy their tarantella. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
3:35 pm	I voted. This morning, after casting seven likely fruitless votes for Mark D, I walked to my childhood elementary school and cast a likely equally fruitless vote for Craig Deeds. After that, in order that I might do something more constructive, I headed for GMU to graduate school application business, filled out a bunch of transcript mailing requests, and now four of my six institutes will have the least important of three transcripts arrive first(well, actually, three, since one of them's Buffalo, which has my graduate transcript already), which two more sealed transcripts sit on my bed until I find a better place to store them. Tomorrow I prepare request forms for mailing to Sweet Briar and Buffalo. At least I have a five in six chance at getting out of this state for two years-though it'll be reduced to four in five if I can't sort out this GRE mess. UCLA has yet to receive my scores, and I can't fill out the normal request form without the codes that the GRE website won't provide due to faulty pdf files and apparently can't be found anywhere else either. I may have to call the ETS and yell at somebody. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
5:24 pm	Got home at 10 Thursday night, so there was little hope of seeing either the compulsory dance or the ladies' short; I fell asleep quickly and woke up with it already over, so I just got up and checked the results, which left me feeling really sorry I'd missed it. Meanwhile, when the pairs short started, the stream worked perfectly all through Shen and Zhao's short, after which I declared myself satisfied with it. Given how much it then proceeded to freeze during the rest of the day hours, including during Shen and Zhao's entire long(I've since watched that on YouTube), maybe I shouldn't have been so nice. By far my best memory of watching Cup of China will be very early this morning, when I managed to wake up at a little bit past two, and turned my laptop on and watched the ladies' free from Yan Liu on in bed. The stream began to freeze up a bit near the end, but it worked the best it the entire weekend. ( One thing did make me sad, ) With it over I went back to sleep, woke up a bit past six, ate a quick breakfast, and sat down to an atrociously freezing stream. I ended up enjoying the first half of the ice dance the most, because the stream worked best then. Though it held on for much of Faiella and Scali, which I was grateful for; I liked that free dance. I haven't been able to watch Tanith and Ben properly all the way through yet(I tried to stream on YouTube but it froze halfway through and wouldn't load further!), but for now, Faiella and Scali's free was my favorite program of the weekend. Now watching Mark D in his element on the Food Network. And I'm feeling hungry. Current Music: commercials (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
6:41 am	Cup of China Alternate title, "Omigod, someone wants my manuscript!" After breakfast I'll be doing some quick edits of the first page to hopefully make sure the editor keeps on reading, and then it'll be off and I'll have to wait again. This may be a little unfocused. At least I'm only dealing with three disciplines now: Ladies: Joannie, Rachael, Carolina. I continue to have a strange faith in Carolina, or perhaps just a belief that the judges will favor her. I do wonder what Frank's going to make of this; does he think he can get both her and Mirai onto the podium here(she'd love to score one over Rachael)? Pairs: Shen-Zhao, Zhang-Zhang, Volosozhar-Morozov. Though I certainly wouldn't mind Duhamel-Buntin sneaking in there somewhere. Ice Dance: Belbin-Agosto, Khoklova-Novitski, Faiella-Scali. In theory, this is the most predictable of the three. In practice, I'm terrified for Tanith and Ben. Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
7:50 am	At least I got this done Title: A New Kind of Mid-Life Crisis Part: 11: Think I'll Go to Boston (Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Fandom: The Cutting Edge/Jane Austen(sort of) Characters: Characters channeling Colonel Brandon, Mr. Bennett, Elinor, Marianne, and Emma Warning: Shameless use of national stereotypes in ice dance Musical Accompaniment: Nessa & George's Free Dance Music:Johannes Brahms-Hungarian Dances Note: This started out as a simple straightforward sequel to The Cutting Edge, but I waited too long to start it and it went a little...awry. ( The folly of people’s not staying comfortably at home when they can! ) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Augustana-Boston (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
5:00 pm	This morning started badly. Deciding beforehand I didn't have the nerves for watching the men's free I slept in until it was already underway, and on getting up, headed immediately for breakfast, where I broke a glass; not a good omen. There was also the toilet acting up, and I followed the results via the ISU website until Johnny was next to skate, at which point I fled for the shower. When I got back, it had happened. By the time I'd heard Plushenko's result(I'd closed the ISU results tab by then), I'd decided on removing myself from all following of men's skating this season until further notice. I'll hear about various wins and losses, no doubt. But I do not care to pay close attention as Stephane endangers his body further, the rest of my favorites lose to skaters I like less, and Plushenko wins another gold he might not even deserve and will be an asshole about either way. I'll start following again at Worlds, hopefully. I did at least enjoy the pairs and ice dancing, but when I ran with my parents to the Hoffman for Aida before Meryl and Charlie skated, I thought it had better be good. Fortunately, it was. And old production, but still good. Unfortunately, during the third act the satellite signal gave out, and we missed a few minutes. But the rest of it was good. Though I did feel sleepy during the first act. Maybe I should have slept in two extra hours instead of one. I may choose sleep over the Cup of China and NHK Trophy. For now, however, I am going to download the vids of the ladies free and watch them unspoiled, and since I now have only three disciplines of skating to follow, I shall pay that much more attention to each of them. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
7:36 am	Rostelecom Cup Alternate title, "I'll probably miss half of the week's event, but anyway." I'll definitely be missing whatever happens in the afternoon, between working as a volunteer for a radio station on Friday, and going to see Aida at the Hoffman Saturday. It's one of those weeks. Men: Sorry, Johnny's competing, so I'm too scared to make podium predictions. Though I do assume Plushy will win this. If he doesn't, Piseev will probably meet the judges in a darkened alley somewhere. Ladies: Miki, Mao, Ashley. More what I'm hoping for with Ashley, that she can edge out Leonova, who will get a big boost from the judges. As for Maoasova Asadakova, methinks Tatiana Antonlievna will have a good deal to answer for when her girl is not looking at all in shape to beat her countrywoman even on ice that could favor her. Pairs: Kavaguti-Smirnov, Pang-Tong, McLaughlin-Brubaker. Though I would absolutely love to see Pang & Tong see this one, I really don't see it happening. I don't know how much I'd mind if Bazarova & Larionov beat out M&B; I'd love to see the former medal, but maybe not at such expense of the latter. Ice Dance: Davis-White, Cappellini-Lanotte, Crone-Poirier. Though if either of the second two teams were just a little lower-ranked, I might predict Rubleva & Shefer to knock past one or both of them, and I do think they'll win at least a segment against them, but maybe not the competition overall. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Merrily We Roll Along-Franklin Shepard, Inc. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
3:27 pm	Romantic pieces After two days of watching the Trophée Eric Bombard in between preparing packages for mailing and mailing them, I did notice the stream had much better timing than last year; granted, there were a few times it unfroze just as a performance finished(especially annoying was it coming out of a long streak of images just as Samuelson and Bates finished), but it also seemed to know when I absolutely had to see. After much antics during the ladies free, it played Yu-Na's free skate without disruption, amid streaks of Inoue and Baldwin it at one point unfroze just long enough for me to get to see the throw triple axel(though I had to go to GoldenSkate to read about it before I could believe they'd actually gone and landed it again!), and it also showed me all of the Kerrs free. Just after Pechelat and Bourzat got their scores, however, it was time to run off with mom to the movies to see Jane Campion's Bright Star, and I figured I wouldn't have a problem finding Virtue and Moir's FD on YouTube later. It was the sensible thing to go watch: two hours versus four minutes, right? Not sure. Bright Star was very pretty to look at, and I kind of liked the two leads, but it didn't convince me at all. I knew it was based on a true story and I still didn't buy it. When mom started listing off what are less inaccuracies than blatant alterations to reality, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. I thought the Brown character stole a few scenes. Virtue and Moir's Adagietto, on the other hand...I just saw it now, and I'm kind of glad my first encounter was on NBC HD.. Romance you buy, beautiful skating and breathtaking lifts, all with the feeling that this will be greatness when it is skated on the great stage of Vancouver...much as I love Tanith and Ben, I am starting to really want these two to win that gold. The bits of their flamenco I saw stunned me too. Also possibly bringing the house down in Vancouver and Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison and their free this year. Contrast it with M&T's Love Story. I saw enough of both to concede that M&T won this round fair and square, since D&D were so rough on the elements, but D&D's was the program that shocked and moved me, and left me frustrated because the scratchiness messed up something that could be so great, and if they can make it more polished in February, it will be an earthquake in the Pacific Coliseum, and I really do hope a medal. And said medal might become a little easier, if S&S don't get their act together pronto! Seriously, has there ever been a worse performance from a pair of reigning World Champions? I can't think of one. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Vienna Teng-Paper Cup (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
7:26 am	Trophée Eric Bombard Alternate title, "Getting this out quickly before I finish translating Latin and run off to class..." And my watching Friday will have to be disrupted by having to prepare packages for letters of recommendation, though I figure a constantly freezing stream will give me plenty of opportunities. The real question is when I make the run to the post office, as I must get there before four. Anyhoo, predictions: Men: Nobunari, Tomas, Brian. The upset that I can predict because I've been paying just enough attention, though I'm not assuming Oda will continue to beat Brian later in the season, and Tomas is even less predictable. Ladies: Yu-Na, Carolina, Mao. Reports of Carolina at the moment are very favorable, and footage of Mao from the Japan Open is not. Pairs: Savchnek-Szolkowy, Mukhortova-Trankov, Dubé-Davison. Unless Jessica and Bryce really do melt down...or M&T might. You never know with either pair. Ice Dance: Virtue-Moir, Pechelat-Bourzat, Kerr-Kerr. P&B do tend to come out ahead of the Kerrs more often than not, and I find it unlikely they won't here. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Passion-I Read (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
8:11 pm	For the past three weeks, I've been Twittering my reactions to DWTS, but this week I didn't, so some various reactions here: Was facepalming all through Louis and Chelsie's dance, to the point that I was on the verge of voting for them this morning because I'd still rather have them next week than either Aaron and Karina or Micheal and Anna or Chuck and Anna, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I was that disappointed. Still secretly hoping Aaron and Karina will be shocked out; his arrogance simply does not play well. And I'm still bitter about losing Maks last week. Think Melissa and Mark were a touch overrated last night; Mya and Dmitri should've ended up ahead of them. Though I did enjoy all three Charlestons. Of course I can't think of the word "Bolero" without thinking of Torvill and Dean. Though if any dance was only going to have two couples performing it, they should've made both of them couples with dancing abilities. I suspect Debi and Maksim would've performed it; perhaps they should've waited until Tuesday night to make the assignments. Instead we only got one good Bolero, and it was to an odd choice of song. Still, I think I might have enjoyed Natalie and Alec's routine the most out of all of them last night. Between shirtless Derek and Gilles Marini in the audience, the cute sexy guy factor was up last night. (Comment on this)