I missed posting last week due to work. So much went on setting up blogs and sending out post-event communications to staff. I’m kinda like a mini-public relations/communications/new media guru. I get to do what I love everyday! (It’s a combination of almost everything I used to do.) So when work happens, The Pseudo Expat gets neglected.

I’m slowly figuring out personal branding and navigating ones online presence so another reincarnation just might be in the works.

I’m typing this with the flu. Doubtful it’s the Swine but I’ve been flat on my back since Sunday (minus the five hours at church for service at noon and a special Thanksgiving event in the evening).

Anyway.

While my favorite dance show no longer has any Filipinos since Brandon and Pauline’s early departures (Ellenore says she’s part), I’ve been a fan since Season 3 and can’t resist not sharing my 2 cents worth.

I didn’t get to blog but I did take notes last week!

My chicken scratched notes from the November 17 show. Yes, I take notes.

If you can understand my writing, you’ll see that Mary Murphy declared Ryan the best ballroom dancer ever to dance contemporary on the show. His and Ellenore’s was my favorite number — Travis Wall is brilliant! — and my favorite song of the night, Your Ex-Lover’s Dead by Stars.

As you can see by my arrows, I had a feeling Kevin and Karen, Russell and Noelle, and Channing and Viktor, would land in the Bottom 3. I was wrong. It was actually Mollee and Nathan and not Russell and Noelle! Shocking! Mollee and Nathan did a great job dancing Laurieann Gibson’s choreo of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Nigel said their bad Salsa from the week before must’ve caught up with them.

But dance for their lives they did and we ended up saying goodbye to street dancer Kevin and contemporary technician Channing, leaving Viktor and Karen to form a new partnership.

The two did well last night for their first time as partners.

My viewing last night was through a medicinal haze so the details of theirs and everyone else’s two dances are fuzzy. Except for Ashleigh and Jakob’s gorgeous Sonya Tayeh number, Time Flies by Lykke Li. Loved, loved, loved them. Dance and song.

What I do remember is thinking that Viktor and Karen are going home tonight.

But you never know.

Postcript:

I was right. Viktor and Karen are going home.