It was disappointing. It was a rough skate. The music felt twice as slow as it has been in practice.

(Practice is) going to be awesome. I have no complaints about anything right now.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

It was like . . . it was so . . . uh. Like butter, like a really good piece of dessert.

I am happy that we skated really well. Sometimes when you are sick, I think you concentrate twice as much because you don't feel one hundred percent. I think it worked today.

This year we chose Romeo and Juliet, which we think fits us the best because it's a great love story. For the Olympic season we can show it off.