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Time to write about something other than my feet! I bet this is even LESS interesting to most of my readers...
I'll be calling C4 in a couple of weeks. (I'll be calling a bunch of C3B, too, but I've got oodles of C3B written; C4 is what I am perennially short of and always need to write before a dance.)
Yesterday I got bored enough with writing choreo that I decided to do bookkeeping about choreo instead. I spent all day entering my old C4 sequences into the computer. Not the choreo itself, no; that's easy and I've done it already. I entered all the usage information. When, where, and whether each of these sequences has been used, every last scribble on the upper right corner of a printout, every C4 dance I have ever called using those pages -- it's all in CSDS now. It was ten PM by the time I was done.
It turns out that yes, Virginia, I do have some older sequences that I have never ever called. Score! I can use those now. But I didn't find many. I still need to write just about as much as I'd planned for the upcoming dance.
Ah, the glamorous life of a square dance caller.
I'll be calling C4 in a couple of weeks. (I'll be calling a bunch of C3B, too, but I've got oodles of C3B written; C4 is what I am perennially short of and always need to write before a dance.)
Yesterday I got bored enough with writing choreo that I decided to do bookkeeping about choreo instead. I spent all day entering my old C4 sequences into the computer. Not the choreo itself, no; that's easy and I've done it already. I entered all the usage information. When, where, and whether each of these sequences has been used, every last scribble on the upper right corner of a printout, every C4 dance I have ever called using those pages -- it's all in CSDS now. It was ten PM by the time I was done.
It turns out that yes, Virginia, I do have some older sequences that I have never ever called. Score! I can use those now. But I didn't find many. I still need to write just about as much as I'd planned for the upcoming dance.
Ah, the glamorous life of a square dance caller.
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At first blush I wish I could say I never ever called the same sequence to any dancer more than once. That's a standard I aspire to. To do that, I could either NEVER EVER reuse material -- wasteful, 'cause they take time to write -- or keep awfully good records and never reuse anything in the same location, or in another location that might have some of the same people, or anything that's been recorded for tape groups. Now that I'm on the computer it's easy to keep very good records.
When push comes to shove I'll reuse stuff that doesn't seem very recognizable. From Mainstream to high Challenge, every level has its "boring sequences". Anything that's somewhat clever or would stick in someone's memory I am more careful with. C4 I'm more careful with on general principle -- those folks have photographic memories or something! Even so, I'd still call a C4 sequence in San Jose and then call it again in Stockholm. Provided it wasn't taped and the tapes distributed, of course.
It's all very vague.
Some dances actually write "all new material" into the contract. I almost wish more dances made that sort of thing explicit.
Now that I'm on the computer all the time I can be more strict about this stuff. It's easier to hold myself to a standard. And Lord knows it's good for me to write a lot of material.
I have no idea what the norm is. :-)
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And yeah. I hope you feel better soon. (Both you and Toni.) You've been under for too long, so you should get a reprieve. I have spoken. ;-)
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you should get a reprieve. I have spoken. ;-)
So they'd better listen. ;-)
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