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Whew! Last week I didn't go out much, but seem to have expended 130% of my available energy reading through my new amazon order and writing fic. So I've been doing quite well at work, but just slightly sleepwalking the whole time.

On tuesday was CTS good and evil discussion, which sparked the slight philosophical turn since.

On friday was Ceb's pancake party. Yay, pancakes! Yay, hugs! Yay, apples to apples!

On saturday I went to poohsoc and bullied there into being an AGM next weekend, with most of a committee.

And IVFDF. I didn't make it to any of the events, but got to the ceilidh at the end. It started a bit slow as everyone seemed too tired or shy to want to dance, or Owen (hi! Nice to see you in person), but then many people I knew turned up or stopped being stewards, and it was fun and exhausting. On my way out I stopped at a weird ceilidh/rap cross thing which was very hoppy and had actual upper body expression (thanks, Rosy) :)

I meandered fatiguedly across tiny dark east cambridge residential streets to try to cut back home via the railway cycle bridge, and collapsed on the sofa in an unheralded funk. Reading most of a diane duane young adult young wizard book pulled me through.

On sunday, it was sunny going out, so I was happy. I did a spot of shopping, and got to the *other* ceilidh. There was almost no-one I knew dancing, but I think I cadged someone nice for every dance. And all went well, with only a bit of "agh, turn round in -0.13 steps", until the final waltz, when my ballroom waltz just didn't fit (sorry, Alison).

Thanks to Sally and everyone else who organised it. Congratulations!

Date: 2006-02-26 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I was busy elsewhere and couldn't go to IVFDF, which was a shame really - most of the UEA Folked were there. I hear the Rapper lot were good.

Date: 2006-02-27 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
Hey, everyone ceilidhs. Cool.

Date: 2006-02-27 06:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hmmm-tea.livejournal.com
I hear the Rapper lot were good.

Black swan always are...

(except when they're too drunk...)

Date: 2006-02-27 07:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] innocencest.livejournal.com
Wait - You expended 130% of all of your energy, thus leaving you with an energy deficit, by reading an amazon order? =P
And you then decided to go dance madly in Ceilidhs (if that is the plural)?

Date: 2006-02-27 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
That was an exagaration for comic effect. If you want to assign an exact meaning to it, consider that as a percentage of the energy I had *spare* -- though then it's probably a big understatement.

Ceilidhs require a different sort of energy, almost opposite. Going to work requires determination and concentration. Reading requires concentration and a lack of determinism. Ceilidhs require determinism and physical energy, which is nearly the opposite of concentration, in that doing one always makes you need to do the other for a bit.

Date: 2006-02-27 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
I think that's the plural. I don't know what the original is, but I've seen that one everywhere I think.

Date: 2006-02-27 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com
The Vienneise fits. Of course, it may not be practical to dance it :-)

Date: 2006-02-27 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
That's about what I ended up doing, but I didnt' think about it *first*, and it kept going wrong. If I was dancing with an alison-who-goes-to-cdc it would have been fine, but I think I was dancing with one of the others. (Or I might have her name wrong.)

Date: 2006-02-27 06:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hmmm-tea.livejournal.com
It started a bit slow as everyone seemed too tired or shy to want to dance, or Owen

So everyone who wasn't too tired or too shy was me?

And those people made it a bit slow?

(hi! Nice to see you in person)

Oh yes, always nice to come up and see people in person...

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