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I finally dragged myself out to swing dancing for the first time in 3 months. Although I was out of practice, I actually had no trouble following. I tried to help out this kid (I use this term for lack of a better word my guess was that he was an undergrad, he seemed so young!) who had never done swing before, and taught him a few things, like the basic step, and how to signal turns. So that was my nice deed of the evening.

I'm glad I went. I forgot how fun it is. Hopefully now that the mono is gone I can go regularly again. (Though I usually get tired out from Wednesday afternoon Techiya rehearsals. But next semester's schedule may be different.)
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Swing dancing was once again amazing, though this time in a different way. Since they were having a series of lessons for beginners, I brought dsKC along. Unfortunately I misread the time, and we got there late, though we still got a good half hour or so of instruction. They had us all rotate a lot, though there were more girls/follows than guys/leads (there were some female leads) so there were a few times where I wasn't dancing.

In terms of the dance itself, it was a good mix of me dancing with dsKC and me dancing with random guys. dsKC improved a lot, and it was really nice to be able to see that, and help him figure out some of the more complex moves we were trying. So now he can lead.

The dancing with random guys kept me on my toes, since it was much easier to dance with dsKC since I was used to his style, and variety is good. Though being able to follow your partner is also good.

So he leveled up a lot, and I noticed that I had leveled up since the last time I was dancing, though I did less leveling up tonight. dsKC had some natural 20s, i.e. some moves that just randomly worked and we couldn't figure out why. Yay natural 20s!

We want to go to the lesson next week, but it will be the first week of summer language. And that goes until 9pm. We were considering skipping out on class, but that would be a bad move. In this case I'm the voice of reason.

And dsKC is finally going to send out the e-mail about D&D scheduling and character creation, and if he doesn't send it out by tomorrow morning, I will. It looks like we will be doing Saturday nights after Shabbat ends, so [livejournal.com profile] elfsdh, you should be easily able to make it.

Also, we get to have input in the world and stuff. And I get to be a prismatic dragon of awesome! I'm going to be a very young dragon who doesn't have so much control over her powers yet, so that way I'm not too broken. And prismatic won't actually be prismatic powers-wise.

Swing!

Jun. 4th, 2008 11:58 pm
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Swing dancing was amazing. I had a really good time, and after a while I didn't really need to warn people about being a beginner, because I was able to follow for the most part (except for a few confusing counterintuitive signals that I eventually got after a few tries). So I came home really happy. And I enjoyed dancing with lots of different people.

Also, I learned that swing is way easier than salsa or rumba or whatever else I was doing with JB. Or maybe it's easier to dance swing to swing music, since the dance is meant for that music. Also, there's less crazy footwork. So JB needs to learn swing dance, so he can do swing to swing. When he gets back next semester, maybe he'll come along with me again, and maybe by then I'll be able to teach him.

Also, they are having a 4-week set of lessons for beginners. I'll be gone next week, but the week after I'll be around, and it will be before summer language starts, so I can actually get there for the lesson, and maybe dsKC will come with me.
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In unrelated news, I have a bunch of crazy rounds stuck in my head from round singing last night. I'll post the lyrics of the two most amusing ones. The first is a parody, so I'll post the real lyrics and then the parody:
Real )
Parody )

(My response to this was, "but some people really shouldn't keep breeding!")

The other one is called "My Friend Sharon," and is apparently based on a true story.
My Friend Sharon )

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