Live concert this Saturday

Some friends and I started a tango orchestra with the coolest name ever - ¡O, Gnat!
(Nick is not only the best cello player ever, but also a great band namer). This Saturday we're going to have our first public concert (the previous ones were in private residences, this one is open pretty much to all dancers). The Facebook event page is here

Milonga Especial "El Once" 11/11/11 in Newton!

Clean out your fridges and bring all rotten tomatoes to Newton this Friday as I will be performing a short choreography on stage at Milonga Especial "El Once" 11/11/11 in Newton

Update: the milonga was nice, but our choreography group decided we weren't ready yet. There were other people performing, though, and they were great

News flash

Danced tango within the crowd at the Manu Chao's concert.
Drank the Death cocktail at the Church bar (has anise in it, so doesn't taste good, but couldn't escape the symbolic meaning of taking over Death)
Had a double whammy of endo- and colonoscopy and came out clear!

Inbetween days

While the tumor marker is up, it is not up significantly.
Nothing new visible on the PET/CT scan.
The doctors are giving me 2 more months of treatment-free frolicking until the new test, so I can stop worrying about cancer too much and prepare for our "untango" performance on October 21/22 (you heard it here first! mark your calendars, it's going to be nothing less than wonderful!)

What keeps you going

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal Dreams"

Quote of the day

"to cope with inevitable loss, to face life in all its confusion and absurdity and still retain the capacity for joy, laughter, and a belief that our struggles have meaning - this is to prevail."
Gordon Livingston "And Never Stop Dancing"

Marker is up again :(
I'm getting really tired of all this up-and-down stuff. The doctors seem to be stuck at playing whack-a-mole - wait for a tumor to grow, then whack it with radiation, then wait for a new one. What's the point???