actual post about the ball
Mar. 11th, 2008 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitSo the ball on Saturday night was amazing. I am so glad I went. And I'm so glad that I got JB to take E-Hobbit and me. It meant that we took turns sitting out and dancing, but I was never sitting out for too long, and JB is good at teaching people how to dance. I also danced a bit with hKC and with EY (though it's easier for me to pick up new dances when taught by a guy/someone in pants, because I will look at my dance partner's feet at first to figure out what the heck they are doing, and then I can eventually stop and look up. This is much harder when your dance partner's feet are being covered by a dress). So there was lots of dancing to be had. And I think tango is my favorite. I wish I had had a rose to hold between my teeth. That would have been made of win!
So everyone had a good time and we all lived happily ever after.
Also, I might take social dancing classes next semester if my schedule allows it. It turns out that this mixed dancing thing is really fun. Dances are much better when you have a date, especially if he's a good leader. And I like these styles of dancing, and they are classy, as opposed to the general people having sex on the dance floor type dancing that was the norm for the dances I went to in high school. Not that I was among those people; I felt uncomfortable with "grinding" and whatnot. So I always considered myself a bad dancer. But since the Tea Party I've realized that I might actually have the ability to learn how to dance. I'd never be good enough to do competitive ballroom (nor do I really have any desire to do any sort of competitive dancing) but it would be nice to be able to go out on the dance floor and do stuff. Hence the social classes.
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In other news, yesterday while I was in Boylston doing work between class and my weekly appointment, I found a knitting circle! They meet in that room every Monday from 12-1, so next week I will join them in knitting (though this means I should do my German homework on Sunday afternoon...) Up until now I haven't been going to any knitting circles in Cambridge because HRSFA eats up my entire life. Which is all well and good since I can knit at HRSFA (except for at Friday night gaming, since it's Shabbat) but I'm always the only one knitting, except at milk & cookies, where some of the other knitters in HRSFA bring their projects. Though last time I was the only one. For all of you who are reading this and are in HRSFA and knit, you should bring your knitting more often. (Though I guess you are all sick with thesis. I suppose this is a good excuse for not knitting or not existing for that matter. But after spring break you will be done with your theses, and then you really should be knitting!)
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I had to write a brief prospectus for my Ritual, Gender, and Space class paper. I originally thought it was a 15-20 page paper, which would be reasonable for a seminar like this. But it turns out my paper is 7-10 pages. Which makes life a lot easier but it also means that I don't have as much space (or ritual or gender) in which to write, and thus I cannot write my brilliant paper on purity in the 2nd Temple Judaism which would be the natural continuation of my thesis. Instead I will write a paper which will just look at existing scholarship and make some comments. At least Shaye Cohen will probably be in my paper. Maybe I'll be able to get away with more than 10 pages if my prof is not a stickler for these things. I'll just accidentally write 15-20 pages. :)
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And I finally mailed off some knit items for charity and brought my Chinese Dress of Awesome to be dry-cleaned. Though upon arrival at home I realized I forgot to weave in the ends on my charity items. Oops. Hopefully the person who gets them will forgive my of my stupidity.
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I have a shiny spinning project of awesome that I think I will work on tonight. Those who see it will be in awe of the shininess.
So everyone had a good time and we all lived happily ever after.
Also, I might take social dancing classes next semester if my schedule allows it. It turns out that this mixed dancing thing is really fun. Dances are much better when you have a date, especially if he's a good leader. And I like these styles of dancing, and they are classy, as opposed to the general people having sex on the dance floor type dancing that was the norm for the dances I went to in high school. Not that I was among those people; I felt uncomfortable with "grinding" and whatnot. So I always considered myself a bad dancer. But since the Tea Party I've realized that I might actually have the ability to learn how to dance. I'd never be good enough to do competitive ballroom (nor do I really have any desire to do any sort of competitive dancing) but it would be nice to be able to go out on the dance floor and do stuff. Hence the social classes.
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In other news, yesterday while I was in Boylston doing work between class and my weekly appointment, I found a knitting circle! They meet in that room every Monday from 12-1, so next week I will join them in knitting (though this means I should do my German homework on Sunday afternoon...) Up until now I haven't been going to any knitting circles in Cambridge because HRSFA eats up my entire life. Which is all well and good since I can knit at HRSFA (except for at Friday night gaming, since it's Shabbat) but I'm always the only one knitting, except at milk & cookies, where some of the other knitters in HRSFA bring their projects. Though last time I was the only one. For all of you who are reading this and are in HRSFA and knit, you should bring your knitting more often. (Though I guess you are all sick with thesis. I suppose this is a good excuse for not knitting or not existing for that matter. But after spring break you will be done with your theses, and then you really should be knitting!)
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I had to write a brief prospectus for my Ritual, Gender, and Space class paper. I originally thought it was a 15-20 page paper, which would be reasonable for a seminar like this. But it turns out my paper is 7-10 pages. Which makes life a lot easier but it also means that I don't have as much space (or ritual or gender) in which to write, and thus I cannot write my brilliant paper on purity in the 2nd Temple Judaism which would be the natural continuation of my thesis. Instead I will write a paper which will just look at existing scholarship and make some comments. At least Shaye Cohen will probably be in my paper. Maybe I'll be able to get away with more than 10 pages if my prof is not a stickler for these things. I'll just accidentally write 15-20 pages. :)
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And I finally mailed off some knit items for charity and brought my Chinese Dress of Awesome to be dry-cleaned. Though upon arrival at home I realized I forgot to weave in the ends on my charity items. Oops. Hopefully the person who gets them will forgive my of my stupidity.
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I have a shiny spinning project of awesome that I think I will work on tonight. Those who see it will be in awe of the shininess.
