CDC Easter Ball

I haven't danced for ages, but it went fairly well. I spent most of it with sonicdrift, lark_ascending and crazyscot, and atreic, and it's always nice to have a group to be part of, instead of *just* dancing with random but nice people you know separately.

sonicdrift was stunning in her third formal dress in seven days. She also hadn't danced for ages, but seems naturally very good at following, which works very well with me because I tend to lead steps that aren't quite the ones I'm supposed to. ("accidental improvisation")

Apparently I quote Miles Vorkosigan a lot, which is weird because I would, but hadn't noticed that I did. Relatedly, I need to figure out when I'm teasing and when I'm being obnoxious :)

lark_ascending was ever so sparkly (and cuddly), which sort of rubbed off on me; the whole evening people kept seeing glitter on me. It made me wonder if women wearing glitter always mean to be, or just had a dress like lark's once. I decided to pretend it was supposed ot be there, because it didn't come off.

The other satorial innovation that appears to be missing from the standard cambridge wardrobe is waistcoats with geeky slogans on ("If this is in red, you're dancing too fast" etc).

I spoke to crazyscot, which was nice, as I know I've seen him around before, but can't recall ever axtually *meeting* him. I feel a bit guilty for several times helping force him to dance with people he didn't know, but everyone seemed to enjoy it, so I think it was good in the end.

I saw atreic for the first time in ages. She was lovely: she said she'd noticed that I'd lost weight, and was a nicer person that I was in the first year. Which I'd sort of hoped for, but hadn't thought anyone would notice. She dances nice too.

One man foxtroting sadwiched between two women amazed us in technique and daring, and inspired from the kinksoc pubmeet we speculated on which other dances might correspond to what. The three men dancing in a circle together was obvious, but we amused by the can-can (a long line of women arm in arm doing high kicks) and the beat barn dance (you swap partners ever 24 beats.) Apparently I have kissed more men than I've danced with, and apparently this is 'an interesting fact' about me :)

I met and often danced with a lot of people I hadn't seen recently, or in some cases for a year or something since I last danced regularly, including Stewart, Gabi, Ed, Megan, and other dancing types.

When sonicdrift had relunctantly left to grab a few hours sleep before the next morning's demonstrating CMS's physics to investors, neighbours, and three year olds spontaneously generated by the existance water and delicate stuff, and atreic, lark_ascending and crazyscot had danced their feet off and driven home, I took the opportunity to dance as with everyone I recognised until the end.

I was again very flattered, now by Camilla, who complimented me on my on my improvisational dancing. I was pleased to find out I can dance well at least sometimes. Admittedly she was a particularly perfect partner, as dancing with Henry has taught her to follow really extreme and exciting steps she doesn't know, so my insertion of random whirly, embracey and parambulatory bits of salsa into the rumba didn't phase her at all. I just wish I could smoke at will, rather than, metaphorically, having to wait to find The Mask :)

[1] Odd, I haven't needed any footnotes at all in all that. I feel naked without them.

Which 20th century theorist are you?

You are Martin Heidegger! Your reputation is
stained a bit by the fact that you were a
member of the Nazi party, but your
groundbreaking Being and Time is still
read by a whole lot of people. You overuse the
hyphen, and make up a lot of words. You died in
1976.


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...with thanks to lark_ascending. I'm disturbed by the nazi thing, but they got the hyphens spot on. How did they know?