Sally's Journal

Or maybe not a plug.

lark_ascending has created camdancewithme for "ballroom, Latin, ceilidh and other dancers in Cambridge, UK, especially CDC members, to organise meetups. Talent not necessary, beginners and owners of two left feet welcome!" As I seem to have a fair few CDC people lurking on my friends list that she doesn't know about ;-) I thought it was worth mentioning it here...

Not sure I like the phrasing "to organise meetups" though. I mean, it's not like we're about to take over the organising of GD or the Round ceilidhs. And it's not like any event will be improved by a large prescence of LJ people. I mean, you're all lovely, but so are the non-LJ CDC/Round people. I think I'd have just as good a time with non-LJ dancers as with LJ dancers. The idea of a clique within a clique doesn't appeal either - I mean, there are already lots of CDC classes, and things like GD, and trips to the pub etc. It's bad enough that we have the committee clique, let along an LJ one :-p

And I think it's charmingly naive to assume that the folkies and dancesport types will all sit happilly together in the same community. You'd like to think they'd be united by common interest, but I never fail to be amazed how wide the gulf between the folk scene and the ballroom scene is in Cambridge. Still, I suppose it's because if you take scots, and molly, and the round, you don't have any free time to go to ballroom classes!

All that aside, it seems a nice idea to have somewhere to plug dancing events in Cambridge, especially if I means I notice some of the stranger and more unusual stuff I wouldn't otherwise be aware of. And if it gets me off my lazy arse and drags me out to GD that wouldn't be a bad thing either :-)

Or maybe not a plug.

lark_ascending has created camdancewithme for "ballroom, Latin, ceilidh and other dancers in Cambridge, UK, especially CDC members, to organise meetups. Talent not necessary, beginners and owners of two left feet welcome!" As I seem to have a fair few CDC people lurking on my friends list that she doesn't know about ;-) I thought it was worth mentioning it here...

Not sure I like the phrasing "to organise meetups" though. I mean, it's not like we're about to take over the organising of GD or the Round ceilidhs. And it's not like any event will be improved by a large prescence of LJ people. I mean, you're all lovely, but so are the non-LJ CDC/Round people. I think I'd have just as good a time with non-LJ dancers as with LJ dancers. The idea of a clique within a clique doesn't appeal either - I mean, there are already lots of CDC classes, and things like GD, and trips to the pub etc. It's bad enough that we have the committee clique, let along an LJ one :-p

And I think it's charmingly naive to assume that the folkies and dancesport types will all sit happilly together in the same community. You'd like to think they'd be united by common interest, but I never fail to be amazed how wide the gulf between the folk scene and the ballroom scene is in Cambridge. Still, I suppose it's because if you take scots, and molly, and the round, you don't have any free time to go to ballroom classes!

All that aside, it seems a nice idea to have somewhere to plug dancing events in Cambridge, especially if I means I notice some of the stranger and more unusual stuff I wouldn't otherwise be aware of. And if it gets me off my lazy arse and drags me out to GD that wouldn't be a bad thing either :-)

Tired. Doing stuff other than work is wearing me out at the moment, but it will be much better now M's gone away to the states, especially when we actually have the bones of a wedding sorted, budgetted and agreed on. May have made some progress on that today, but have a feeling that getting my hopes up too soon is a Bad Thing, as it will either be too expensive, or booked, or just Not Possible.

Today I woke up at 5.30 to drive M down to the station to get the train to Heathrow. The Heathrow express is such a scandelous rip off! Still, the extra half hour in bed may almost have been worth it. Then I decided that I wasn't going to get back to sleep, and so went to Tescos, where I despared over mothers day cards, bought some sandwitch stuff, and gave up on the bring and share and bought a pair of non-wheat free, half non-vegitarian quiches. I will do better next week, I promise. I was also surprised that you didn't seem able to buy "congratulations on being pregnant" cards, as all the "baby" ones were gender specific. I mean, I have quite a superstitious world view myself, but I assumed the card industry jumped on any bandwagon it could create!

Hope, shower, read a book, didn't do the work I ment to, then to a lecture, an interesting couple of hours in the CUED library with the microfeeeeeeeeeesh reader :-) and then back to the whittle via a few chores. Afternoon could have been more productive, I'm worried that I haven't done the stuff I would have had to do by now if I had a supervisor meeting tomorrow morning and so am too deadline driven. Then again, am enjoying alter ego...

He's still on an aeroplane. (I hope!) Ah well.

Tired. Doing stuff other than work is wearing me out at the moment, but it will be much better now M's gone away to the states, especially when we actually have the bones of a wedding sorted, budgetted and agreed on. May have made some progress on that today, but have a feeling that getting my hopes up too soon is a Bad Thing, as it will either be too expensive, or booked, or just Not Possible.

Today I woke up at 5.30 to drive M down to the station to get the train to Heathrow. The Heathrow express is such a scandelous rip off! Still, the extra half hour in bed may almost have been worth it. Then I decided that I wasn't going to get back to sleep, and so went to Tescos, where I despared over mothers day cards, bought some sandwitch stuff, and gave up on the bring and share and bought a pair of non-wheat free, half non-vegitarian quiches. I will do better next week, I promise. I was also surprised that you didn't seem able to buy "congratulations on being pregnant" cards, as all the "baby" ones were gender specific. I mean, I have quite a superstitious world view myself, but I assumed the card industry jumped on any bandwagon it could create!

Hope, shower, read a book, didn't do the work I ment to, then to a lecture, an interesting couple of hours in the CUED library with the microfeeeeeeeeeesh reader :-) and then back to the whittle via a few chores. Afternoon could have been more productive, I'm worried that I haven't done the stuff I would have had to do by now if I had a supervisor meeting tomorrow morning and so am too deadline driven. Then again, am enjoying alter ego...

He's still on an aeroplane. (I hope!) Ah well.

Although I'm tired, and should probably go to bed instead, there's not a lot of point going to this LSM course if I don't try and think through my thoughts afterwards.

( some random religion musing )

By the way, a plug for

http://www.godhatesfigs.com

a site I wish I'd written

Although I'm tired, and should probably go to bed instead, there's not a lot of point going to this LSM course if I don't try and think through my thoughts afterwards.

( some random religion musing )

By the way, a plug for

http://www.godhatesfigs.com

a site I wish I'd written