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Because I had a couple of spare minutes to myself, I thought, of course, I must use them to embark upon a new venture that is going to require a lot of time to maintain. That's how these things go.
I am 49 years old, and I feel like my brain has gone into hyperdrive. I've always been a hyper person involved in a lot of things. In my 20s I would work three jobs while at the same time I was in three different dance performance companies. Belly dance, international folk dance, and Scandinavian dance.
In my 30s I started my current belly dance troupe, and a cancan troupe. And I taught college kids how to dance, both at a local college and at a private location. And I took a star role as Grace O'Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen at the local Renaissance Festival. And I started writing a book. Historic fiction. It would take 10 years to write, because to do the research I'd have to drive back home to Pittsburgh.
In my 40s, I finished and published that book, wrote a sequel, wrote a dance textbook on waltzing, wrote a couple of screenplays and registered them with the DGA. I expanded the Cancan troupe, got a webpage for it, kept the belly dancers busy, directed the entertainment for a wild west show, started a performance branch of the Vintage ballroom group, started a club that dresses up in Victorian garb once a month and goes bowling, or ice skating, or to the opera. I've got a production company and shot the pilot for a TV show about dancing in America. I've got a huge costume closet of Renaissance costumes that I've made for myself and my husband. And there are at least four books all banging at my brain demanding to be written.
I have to wonder if this is normal. Do all women go through this sort of hyper-productivity just before menopause or something? And when does it stop? Because I'm getting tired, and I really shouldn't go so many months between times when I pull out the vacuum cleaner and wash the kitchen floor.Jeanette Watts
Because I had a couple of spare minutes to myself, I thought, of course, I must use them to embark upon a new venture that is going to require a lot of time to maintain. That's how these things go.
I am 49 years old, and I feel like my brain has gone into hyperdrive. I've always been a hyper person involved in a lot of things. In my 20s I would work three jobs while at the same time I was in three different dance performance companies. Belly dance, international folk dance, and Scandinavian dance.
In my 30s I started my current belly dance troupe, and a cancan troupe. And I taught college kids how to dance, both at a local college and at a private location. And I took a star role as Grace O'Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen at the local Renaissance Festival. And I started writing a book. Historic fiction. It would take 10 years to write, because to do the research I'd have to drive back home to Pittsburgh.
In my 40s, I finished and published that book, wrote a sequel, wrote a dance textbook on waltzing, wrote a couple of screenplays and registered them with the DGA. I expanded the Cancan troupe, got a webpage for it, kept the belly dancers busy, directed the entertainment for a wild west show, started a performance branch of the Vintage ballroom group, started a club that dresses up in Victorian garb once a month and goes bowling, or ice skating, or to the opera. I've got a production company and shot the pilot for a TV show about dancing in America. I've got a huge costume closet of Renaissance costumes that I've made for myself and my husband. And there are at least four books all banging at my brain demanding to be written.
I have to wonder if this is normal. Do all women go through this sort of hyper-productivity just before menopause or something? And when does it stop? Because I'm getting tired, and I really shouldn't go so many months between times when I pull out the vacuum cleaner and wash the kitchen floor.Jeanette Watts
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