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Apr. 26th, 2010 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressNEFFA!
Because I don't have my standard tweet-form con report to make here (I made like five tweets all weekend, and half of them were directed towards![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ncarraway), I'm going to liberally steal a page from Sparr's book, and give you a Awesome/Good/Bad/Ugly report.
So, The Awesome:
*Budding friendship withzombie_dog is going Very Well Indeed, and it was really nice to have NewFriend energy to fall back on when the con got overwhelming, since I think that might be the one sort of social interaction that actively recharges me.
*I rock the hell out of a cross-step waltz, and Susan deG ran an intermediate workshop this year which I rocked the *hell* out of.
*Friday night had a really excellent contra-waltz1 and a *really* excellent contra with this just gorgeous hippie-boy who had that perfect knack of looking straight into your eyes and making you feel like you're the only woman on the planet. We chatted at various other points, and I gave him my card, so maybe I'll get to keep in touch.
*Afterwards, going to dinner with peeps, and breaking out the magnets for them to play with.2, 3
The Good:
*So, the other Monday at SCD, the really good dance teacher was all "so, you suck at pas de basque setting, actually" and I was all "oh nooooooooooooes" and have been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The good is that, due to all the contra, and the fact that I balance using pas de basque, I got so much practise in. I think I kinda know how to correct myself, I just need to make that the habit (instead of what I've been doing wrong) and then polish!
*Contra in general is pretty good.
*Gender-free contra! Also, the fact that I can easily dance contra while switching roles with my partner.
*Snuggling with Nurit, spending time with Persis and David.
*Last contra with Alex
The Indifferent:
*No kissing.
*Dancing a contra with the abovementioned hippie and a friend of his in varying configurations of two of us being the lead and the other being the follow.
*Last waltz with a guy I barely know from Concord, which might have actually been the most perfect partner I could've chosen.
The Bad:
*Noncarraway to kisschat with. Or kiss. Or chat with. I honestly can't say which was better offhand.
*No at least two or three other people who I would've loved to see
*Didn't actually manage to dance withspringiswrath which is a damn shame
*Barely hung out with Susan, which is also a shame. Maybe at Balticon we'll get in a good gossip session.
*Being worn out of energy for most of Saturday was harsh.
*Not enough dancing.
The Ugly:
*Subtly breaking down crying while watching friends do dance performance was PRETTY SHITTY, LET ME TELL YOU.4
*Also, not having a shoulder to break down onto like the last time I did this (coff, NEFFA2007, whatnow?)
There might be more, but I've got a job to go do, and I wanted to turn into a civilized human being first. Aieee, late late. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I get elitist about contra dancers and their complete inability to waltz --yes, yes, doing all the flourishes is rather pretty, but can you go in the direction of the line of dance? Please?! So yes, I will occasionally waltz with contra dancers, but I get fairly frustrated as they are too busy being flashy to either waltz as well as I'd like them to, or bother trying to learn what I have to teach.
2: No, you didn't miss one. Due to the nature of how I'm putting this together, the footnotes are out of order as well.
3: "Magnets? What magnets?" Ask Sparr --he gave me 200 of these at Arisia. They are *awesome*.
4: Will I go into more detail on this later? Maybe. I'm working on putting all the right words together into an essay about my emotional responses to waltzing (especially cross-step waltz), but it's nowhere near done, and even when it becomes done, it might be far too personal for me to actually post.
In short, waltzing with people I have an intimate relationship with, has started to hurt. And I have many many thoughts, so I probably will try to post, but yeah.
If we've waltzed in the last three months, and I've looked like I wanted to cry, I probably did. *shrugs*. And that is life, and I have no intentions of stopping waltzing, no matter how much it hurts, because I have *never* been good at that whole self preservation instinct.
(And because during the act, while I'm moving, while I am actively dancing it is impossible to cry. Being fourth couple in a Scottish set? Oh sure, the mopey parts of my mind can take over. But while I am actively moving? I am fine forever.)
Because I don't have my standard tweet-form con report to make here (I made like five tweets all weekend, and half of them were directed towards
ncarraway), I'm going to liberally steal a page from Sparr's book, and give you a Awesome/Good/Bad/Ugly report. So, The Awesome:
*Budding friendship with
zombie_dog is going Very Well Indeed, and it was really nice to have NewFriend energy to fall back on when the con got overwhelming, since I think that might be the one sort of social interaction that actively recharges me. *I rock the hell out of a cross-step waltz, and Susan deG ran an intermediate workshop this year which I rocked the *hell* out of.
*Friday night had a really excellent contra-waltz1 and a *really* excellent contra with this just gorgeous hippie-boy who had that perfect knack of looking straight into your eyes and making you feel like you're the only woman on the planet. We chatted at various other points, and I gave him my card, so maybe I'll get to keep in touch.
*Afterwards, going to dinner with peeps, and breaking out the magnets for them to play with.2, 3
The Good:
*So, the other Monday at SCD, the really good dance teacher was all "so, you suck at pas de basque setting, actually" and I was all "oh nooooooooooooes" and have been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The good is that, due to all the contra, and the fact that I balance using pas de basque, I got so much practise in. I think I kinda know how to correct myself, I just need to make that the habit (instead of what I've been doing wrong) and then polish!
*Contra in general is pretty good.
*Gender-free contra! Also, the fact that I can easily dance contra while switching roles with my partner.
*Snuggling with Nurit, spending time with Persis and David.
*Last contra with Alex
The Indifferent:
*No kissing.
*Dancing a contra with the abovementioned hippie and a friend of his in varying configurations of two of us being the lead and the other being the follow.
*Last waltz with a guy I barely know from Concord, which might have actually been the most perfect partner I could've chosen.
The Bad:
*No
ncarraway to *No at least two or three other people who I would've loved to see
*Didn't actually manage to dance with
springiswrath which is a damn shame*Barely hung out with Susan, which is also a shame. Maybe at Balticon we'll get in a good gossip session.
*Being worn out of energy for most of Saturday was harsh.
*Not enough dancing.
The Ugly:
*Subtly breaking down crying while watching friends do dance performance was PRETTY SHITTY, LET ME TELL YOU.4
*Also, not having a shoulder to break down onto like the last time I did this (coff, NEFFA2007, whatnow?)
There might be more, but I've got a job to go do, and I wanted to turn into a civilized human being first. Aieee, late late. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I get elitist about contra dancers and their complete inability to waltz --yes, yes, doing all the flourishes is rather pretty, but can you go in the direction of the line of dance? Please?! So yes, I will occasionally waltz with contra dancers, but I get fairly frustrated as they are too busy being flashy to either waltz as well as I'd like them to, or bother trying to learn what I have to teach.
2: No, you didn't miss one. Due to the nature of how I'm putting this together, the footnotes are out of order as well.
3: "Magnets? What magnets?" Ask Sparr --he gave me 200 of these at Arisia. They are *awesome*.
4: Will I go into more detail on this later? Maybe. I'm working on putting all the right words together into an essay about my emotional responses to waltzing (especially cross-step waltz), but it's nowhere near done, and even when it becomes done, it might be far too personal for me to actually post.
In short, waltzing with people I have an intimate relationship with, has started to hurt. And I have many many thoughts, so I probably will try to post, but yeah.
If we've waltzed in the last three months, and I've looked like I wanted to cry, I probably did. *shrugs*. And that is life, and I have no intentions of stopping waltzing, no matter how much it hurts, because I have *never* been good at that whole self preservation instinct.
(And because during the act, while I'm moving, while I am actively dancing it is impossible to cry. Being fourth couple in a Scottish set? Oh sure, the mopey parts of my mind can take over. But while I am actively moving? I am fine forever.)