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cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2002-04-30 12:18 pm

O happy day

Last night C4 dancing went pretty well. We slowed the tape way down so that the people with the lowest energy levels could keep up, which meant that my brain had ample time to work. :-) Jonathan brought brownies with almond extract tossed into 'em. Mmmmmmmmmm. So much for THAT diet.

Afterward, Rob and I discussed some painful stuff -- didn't come to any resolution but at least got to a point where we felt like we were "on the same team", searching together for a good way to deal with it. That was cool. Also he rubbed my VERY SORE neck and shoulders, and well I'll stop with the details at this point, with the result that I have had very little sleep but my spine is a bit better this morning. All of that is pretty cool too.

Lunch with [livejournal.com profile] ambar soon, then (skipping over the boring stuff like work) dinner with Rob, then hanging out with [livejournal.com profile] gs. I do so like skipping over the boring stuff like work. I would like my life to have a fast forward button (and a rewind, and a pause).

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
What's C4? And sorry that work is boring at the moment...

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
C4 is a black belt in square dancing. Almost everyone who does it is a computer nerd. The learning curve is shaped like the side of a house: the first part is a doozy, straight up, and then (once you have studied enough that you can go out to open dances and actually practice) you get to go up a 45 degree incline from there.

I am somewhere between half and three-quarters of the way up the side of the house. I've tried to learn this before, and fallen off every time; I might just make it to the roof this time around.

I love it. Of course. :-)

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
(shakes head, respectfully) wow, that's the kind of square dancing with 1200+ separate moves, right? [livejournal.com profile] 7patches talked about something like that at the pool party.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's it. I think you can get by with about a thousand; some are rare. Until you learn those thousand, though, you can't go to dances, which means you really have to memorize!

Fortunately, every so often someone gets together "tape groups" -- small groups of people who dance to tape-recordings of live dances -- for people to learn by doing. I'm in two such things. We stop the tape a LOT. :-)

Challenge Dancing

[identity profile] 7patches.livejournal.com 2002-05-04 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
My husband, [livejournal.com profile] the_ogre just clued me in that you are a Challenge dancer and caller. I have seen your responses to[livejournal.com profile] mactavish, but I haven’t met you.
I did Modern Western Squares for 17 years, mostly at Tech Squares. I also did Round Dancing. I got up to C2 with More Kids, the 2nd generation of Challenge dancers at MIT. Then I moved on to Contra Dancing and Morris Dancing. I moved to the SF Bay Area 9 years ago.
I would like to talk with you off-line about JDS and other people we might know in common, if you wish. My email is in my profile.

Happy Dancing!

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to see the good stuff is going well for you, and that even the difficult stuff seems to be going as well as could be expected. I hope lunch and dinner are as pleasant as you hope, and that the day continues to be good to you.

I'll have you know I'm resisting several salacious comments regarding playing with your buttons. (He said, with a wink and a grin...)

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :-)

Why resist? ;-) ;-)

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I would just as soon you didn't think me a complete lecher and reprobate?

But hey, if you don't mind, I could imagine having a lot of fun trying to discover just which button produced which effect - fast forward, or pause, or rewind (aka go back and do over), and other functions not found on electronic equipment...

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-05-01 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmmm. Go back and do over. Mmmmmmm.

Because I would just as soon you didn't think me a complete lecher and reprobate?

Many of the people I get along best with are delightfully lecherous. :-) Hopefully including me.

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2002-05-01 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully including me too. But I do try to maintain myself somewhere short of Horny Net Geek in my dealings with friends.

(I am, I'll note, ridiculously pleased with your "Mmmmmmmmm" above.)

[identity profile] gs.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, [livejournal.com profile] wcg may be able to resist salacious comments, but I don't seem capable of it.

CJ, don't forget a "Play" button.

o

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-04-30 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the only button available to persons other than myself. I could read you the access list... it's not all THAT long... ;-)