It's 2:25am on Sunday as I type these words. I got home a short while ago. Yeah, it's been a few days since my last blog entry. But I've been busy dealing with personal stuff and trying out new formats for the photo diary like the one you're looking at now.

I decided to install Movable Type (blog software) to make life easier for me. As proud as I am to say that I created most of the DC Flamenco website coding from scratch for the past ten years, it's gotten so big now that it just makes sense to let the software do all the technical stuff.

Anyway, I got up Saturday morning with just enough time to get my usual Argentine breakfast at El Patio before heading to American Dance Institute to play for dance class. Anna Menendez, took a well-deserved day off since she performed the night before in Intimo at the Alden Theatre. One of her students, Jen, subbed as teacher. The class worked on Fandangos de Huelva.

Later, I hopped on the train towards Alexandria to meet with Marsha aka Rosa la Huracana for a few hours at the beautiful studios of Alliance Dance Institute. It was mostly a good rehearsal until the end when I couldn't focus anymore and decided to call it a night. It's OK, I'm human. I'm allowed to have my bad days. My thanks to Marsha for putting up with me on those rare occasions! :-)

Currently reading

Yet another book about blogging and business. Assuming one keeps up his blog on a regular basis as I do, you get to know about the blog author through his writing. In the book, Naked Conversations, the authors note that Microsoft is sometimes understandably referred to as the Evil Empire. But over the years the blogs written by Microsoft employees have given their customers a glimpse into what they're really like as individuals--normal human beings who don't necessarily fit the stereotype of an Evil Empire employee. This was a very pleasant surprise for their customers. Result: blogging has done a lot to improve their public image.

Not that we need to improve the public image of flamenco in DC (if we do, let me know). But if nothing else my blog will help you get to know who I am: a normal human being with a really cool job! :-)

I promised one of my readers that I'd put together a webpage for my constantly growing list of book recommendations. It's on my To Do list!