It's finally here. We are 3 days away from the biggest event of our lives. Jesse will be in the running to win 8.5 million dollars as the chip leader going into the final table of the World Series of Poker.
We're not sleeping very well anymore. As soon as either of us stirs or rolls over, we're up! A lot of emails and phone calls and Skype sessions and social media to tend to. Constant offers for sponsorships and deals, etc. It's definitely all starting to hit us now. This is BIG.
The company that sponsors Jesse, 888 Poker, has written up a year-long contract for him regardless of whether he wins or not! All of their clients and other players loved him when we were out in Europe and Morocco so they want to keep him for at least another year. For a poker player, a sponsorship deal with a poker website is huge. He will get a regular salary and bonuses for continuing to run deep in tournaments, etc. So he is really living his dream :) Also, something that was pretty surprising and exciting, if he wins, 888 offered him a monetary bonus for him AND me to put towards travel and poker tournaments! (looks like we're going to Australia and New Zealand in January...!!!) they like me too and want me to play and get better.....it's like being a boy in the dance world: you don't have to be that good for everyone to be rooting for you and giving you a lot of attention for being decent :) It's fun to experience something from that side!
Meanwhile, I'm always thinking about what's gonna happen after the dust settles. I finally get to dance on a regular basis AND we'll be living by a beach. Weeeeeee! I got an email from Charles, the choreographer I work with more regularly, with the schedule for 2013 performances. We get to rehearse in January for a week followed by more stuff in March and April. So maybe the traveling life will work well with dancing after all :) My biggest job will be to merge dance and travel together. I've wanted to merge choreography with cities we've traveled to for a long time now but never had the best editing programs for it- and quite honestly, didn't expect to travel THIS much. So now is the time for me to take matters into my own hands and create a dance profile from around the world. If anything, it will help me feel somewhat connected to the dance world. And when all is said and done, I want to have something to show for all of this time away from class and training. It's a hard challenge to discipline yourself to train by yourself everyday when nobody knows anything about dance around you. Therefore, since I'm a huge fan of lists, I think writing my specific dance goals down will help me feel accomplished....
GOALS:
1. Physical therapy every morning for ankle and back.
2. Create a 24-count phrase after therapy. Record the good ones. ;)
3. Expand on the phrases I really like and tape/edit them in cool places we visit.
4. Make a choreography reel for when we are settled in one place for a while.
5. Research ahead of time possible studios to take class in other countries.
Phew. That feels good.
We're not sleeping very well anymore. As soon as either of us stirs or rolls over, we're up! A lot of emails and phone calls and Skype sessions and social media to tend to. Constant offers for sponsorships and deals, etc. It's definitely all starting to hit us now. This is BIG.
The company that sponsors Jesse, 888 Poker, has written up a year-long contract for him regardless of whether he wins or not! All of their clients and other players loved him when we were out in Europe and Morocco so they want to keep him for at least another year. For a poker player, a sponsorship deal with a poker website is huge. He will get a regular salary and bonuses for continuing to run deep in tournaments, etc. So he is really living his dream :) Also, something that was pretty surprising and exciting, if he wins, 888 offered him a monetary bonus for him AND me to put towards travel and poker tournaments! (looks like we're going to Australia and New Zealand in January...!!!) they like me too and want me to play and get better.....it's like being a boy in the dance world: you don't have to be that good for everyone to be rooting for you and giving you a lot of attention for being decent :) It's fun to experience something from that side!
Meanwhile, I'm always thinking about what's gonna happen after the dust settles. I finally get to dance on a regular basis AND we'll be living by a beach. Weeeeeee! I got an email from Charles, the choreographer I work with more regularly, with the schedule for 2013 performances. We get to rehearse in January for a week followed by more stuff in March and April. So maybe the traveling life will work well with dancing after all :) My biggest job will be to merge dance and travel together. I've wanted to merge choreography with cities we've traveled to for a long time now but never had the best editing programs for it- and quite honestly, didn't expect to travel THIS much. So now is the time for me to take matters into my own hands and create a dance profile from around the world. If anything, it will help me feel somewhat connected to the dance world. And when all is said and done, I want to have something to show for all of this time away from class and training. It's a hard challenge to discipline yourself to train by yourself everyday when nobody knows anything about dance around you. Therefore, since I'm a huge fan of lists, I think writing my specific dance goals down will help me feel accomplished....
GOALS:
1. Physical therapy every morning for ankle and back.
2. Create a 24-count phrase after therapy. Record the good ones. ;)
3. Expand on the phrases I really like and tape/edit them in cool places we visit.
4. Make a choreography reel for when we are settled in one place for a while.
5. Research ahead of time possible studios to take class in other countries.
Phew. That feels good.
