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[sorcyress]

Some thoughts:

*Working on a big resolutions from last year and for this year and lots of trustbabble post

*Phones and the way I use them is on my mind right now

*So, whenever I was last trawling the Comics Curmudgeon hardcore, which I think was back during the summer (possibly even *early* summer) I started reading this blog that got linked in there at some point. Today, I learned that the author is the dad of one of my friends from high school. Um...yeah. The world is small sometimes.

*I'm gonna start a commune

*I kinda want to do a "best of 2008" posts thing

*OHSHIT! My secret livejournal project that I was going to work on for 2009! I'll post that in a minute.

*Still need to figure out how I'm getting to and sleeping at the Dance Flurry in February

*Dancing is cool. I like what Larry said about being a historical dance group that doesn't particularly like historical music. This has led me to begin¹ finding songs in my collection of generally modern stuff that are danceable. Most recent additions are a handful of Who Killed Amanda Palmer songs --"Runs in the Family" and "Ampersand" are waltzs (though the former is far too fast to actually dance to), "I Google You" is a blues, and "Guitar Hero" is a really good one-step.

*I like that spellcheck thinks danceable is a word.

*I should be entertaining to Swing somehow, but my brain is a little bit out of social, which is why I've been playing on the internet for some time anyways.

*My nails are longer right now then they've been just about ever. On the one hand, that makes 'em really good for scritching people. (From the New Year's Party-- "Kat, I love my wife, but you've made me realize her one big flaw --she doesn't have nails!") but on the other, I'm going slightly insane having them so long, and am going to bite them all short probably before I even make it back to Boston for Arisia.

And I'm sure there are more things on my mind, but I think I'm out for now. Byeee!

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Okay, truth is I've been doing this for a year or two. But I had another push of going "oh!" today.

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[harena.livejournal.com]

*I should be entertaining to Swing somehow, but my brain is a little bit out of social, which is why I've been playing on the internet for some time anyways.

i'm sure he doesn't mind the downtime {from socializing} himself *noddies & huggles*

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think he did.

*hugglesback*

~Sor

[mneme]

Oh, god, I -love- doing historical and social dance to modern tunes. So much fun, and a glorious feeling of serendipity when you find something that really -fits-.

I remember at the Boiled in Lead concert at Arisia in (mumbledydontremember...ah, thank you Google. 1996), it was so loud that I could leave the room, or stay in and dance. We danced (mostly; it was LOUD!); running between polkas, Bransles, random whatever steps, and even the occasional galliard. I was a much worse dancer then, too.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Glee!

I think that's half the point of knowing how to do vintage dancing at my age --being able to leap into a real polka or waltz or whatever at the superloud teen dances I wind up at occasionally.

~Sor

[mneme]

Hee! Oh, god yes.

Swing's pretty good, too.

IMEX, if you can't polka, two-step, swing, or cha-cha to it, it's probably not in 4-4. (and if it's 6/8, you can probably jig, or maybe galliard if it's an uneven 6/8, whereas if it's 3/4 you can typically do -some- waltz to it, though really slow 3/4s are problematic).

Mind, I was too old for superloud teen dances when I was 16! I even avoid dancing at superloud company parties -- though when they let us bring a guest (we got too big), I'd cut a rug with Lisa if we could get floor before the dance band turned it up -- or even after.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Swing is how I got through my senior prom. Without a date who knew how to swing dance, I would've had the most miserable time ever. As it was, it was merely kinda "eh"

~Sor