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I don’t know a lot about dancing (apart from that I like doing it). I’ve seen a few ballets and I’m used to dancing in the context of story telling. However, I’ve never really been exposed to clever choreography in the context of individual pieces. Anyway, my point is I don’t know if this is a really common kind of choreography – or indeed anything about its technical merit – but I was blown away by how much I loved this dance video from the the Beyond Words Dance Company. Something I really adore – and this is a really ineloquent way of putting it – is layered music. That is to say, I particularly love music that layers many melodies: that has depth so that every time you listen to it, you hear something a bit different. Anyway, this dance routine represents every layer of the music with different dances and I really like it. So much so that I keep seeing it in my head when I listen to this song.

The choreography is by Kate Jablonski. The music is called ‘The Winner Is’ from the ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ soundtrack by Mychael Danna. Watching this video made me remember how much I love the soundtrack of that film and I then immediately bought it off Amazon (whoops). One thing I say against the Beyond Words Dance Company is that they don’t seem to put any indication of what the music is or where its from on their site – I just happened to recognise it.

I discovered this video thanks to the lovely Bim as they linked to a dance to one of their songs ‘The Magic of Us.’ They didn’t credit Bim either, which is sad. I’ve said how much I love Bim before, but while I’m here, I’ll say it again. I adore Bim. They have such a beautiful, calm, magical sound. Please check them out. If I lived in London, I’d go see them (not least because some of their outfits are SO gorgeous that they must been seen in person: clicky clicky). Fingers crossed they’ll one day come to Scotland (or I’ll get rich or grow wings or get to London somehow).

Since it’s been such an astronomically long time since I updated this blog, I thought I might also include a little update about life in general. I’m in 4th year of Biochemistry now and I’m still loving it. So much so that I applied to do a 4 year funded masters/PhD scheme with the British Heart Foundation – and got accepted! It’s a tremendous and terrifying cross between ‘oh my god! Guaranteed job for four years! Working in research! This is awesome!’ and ‘Oh dear God… four more years…’ Also, I should add that I need to get a 2:1 or higher which is really scaring the crap out of me. Not that I didn’t hope to get that anyway, but it certainly does put the pressure on.

On that note, this year has actually just flown away. I worked in a lab for 12 weeks as part of my course this year. It was supposed to be 2 and a half days a week – we still had lectures and work to do for the lectures – but that was a total lie. I was in there all the frickin time. It was so good though. I loved the work, I had a super fabulous supervisor and he gave me a super fabulous reference. So all-in-all I was very very VERY lucky. Though it was possibly the busiest 12 weeks of my life, it was definitely strangely fun and rewarding too.

Now I’m wading into the depths of revision, as my finals are starting on the 26th of April. So soon. I am so scared. I have started to revise, but so far fairly ineffectually.

This has been yet another year of being crap at keeping in touch with people. I’m feeling pretty bad about it in many ways. I have some friends I can just text and see spontaneously and it’s easy and quick and yay for that. And then I have some friends I can’t do that with, for whatever reason, and I really haven’t seen them at all. I feel bad about not seeing them, I feel bad about losing touch with people and guilty about my general crapness. Plus, as I said, time is going so fast that I’ll think that I’ve not got in touch with someone for a week and then find that it’s actually been three months (or longer). So anyway, if I have been a crap friend to you, I am sorry.

In other news, I’ve been trying to lose weight since Christmas, by watching what I eat but mainly by exercise. I have been so sick of how I look for so long that it feels good to be doing something serious about it. So far I’m 1lb off having lost a stone, so woo. Still got a way to go – really want to be looking good for those graduation photos. Might have already picked out a dress and shoes for the day. Though the heels of the shoes are quite high and I re-he-heally don’t want to fall on my face.

Anyway, I think that’s all for now. Procrastination might lead to more regular updates of this blog. Who knows. Wish me revision luck.