Journal Monica's Journal: dreams of judgement 5
so this morning my alarm went off at 8:30 and i sat up to reset it for 8:37.
as i laid back down, i told todd what i was dreaming about:
me: We were redesigning the government of Pakistan, with Pervez Musharraf. but we were in Thailand.
todd: who's Pervez Musharraf?
we = a team of diplomats led by me. we were in thailand because, in my head, all of asia looks like thailand.
but maybe after this "war" is over, the US really will be redesigning the government of Pakistan. ya never know.
on our way to rhode island last week, we were talking about names, and i remarked how i didn't like my name because when i was younger, i thought it had too many consanants to fit on a movie theatre marquee, and it doesn't fit with the phrase "and the Tony goes to...". but then he said that Secretary of State Monica Elkinton had a pretty nice ring to it. i've been thinking about that ever since. what about Attorney General Monica Elkinton?
I decided last fall that what i really want to be is a judge, like a federal judge or something. good thing Chief Justice Monica Elkinton sounds pretty good too.
Salsa (Score:1)
You mentioned [slashdot.org] in your log that you went to dance salsa, but nobody wanted to dance with you. (How did I find this, you ask? I was bored and searched for the word "dance" in journals)
Where did that happen?
I have problems with salsa.. mostly with the spontaneous nature of it - I'm more used to folk dances, where each dance has rules, unlike salsa (or disco) where everyone (or the leader) has to improvise and make up steps.
Oh, and another question: How's contra dances like? Is there physical contact between the people there?
- Derci
Re:Salsa (Score:1)
salsa dancing is like dancing to any popular music, faking confidence is just as good as being a talented dancer - just go up and move your hips toward someone.
i dunno what your frame of reference (national origin?) is, but contradancing is probably like the folk dancing you're used to. it's like american square dancing, kind of, and a whole lot of fun. basically it's a lot of hippies (students, middle-age, hippie children, everyone!) dancing around. there are set moves, like Do-Si-Do and Swinging your Partner. it's partnered up, so most of the time you're holding someone in your arms. usually by the end of the dance, you end up dancing with almost everyone there. the caller goes through all the moves before every dance, and messing up the moves is the best part because you just laugh it off with the people around you and go on.
here are some more links about contra -
http://www.io.com/~entropy/contradance/article-
http://www.tiac.net/users/cseelig/contra
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=c
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/6_1
Contra dances (Score:1)
Contra dances sounds nice, but it lacks the "intimacy" that you sometime experience in salsa or folk dances.
What you described is not like the folk dances I do.
In "my" folk, you have 3 types of dances: Circle dances (where nobody touches other people, usually), Couple dances (done with a dance partner. Most of the dances have a circular direction) and Row dances (which are usually danced to the sounds of foreign music - English or Latin. It's like 60's dances, I think).
So, the thing that most interests me on folk dances is the couples dances. That's because there's some sort of potential of meeting girls. I don't know if it's possible to do so in contra dances.
I'd love to try contra dances, but I doubt somebody organizes that in my country. You need to have a live band for that, right?
Re:Contra dances (Score:1)
where are you from?
yeah, you pretty much need a live band. if not a whole band, then at least a fiddler and one other instrument for rhythm.
Re:Contra dances (Score:1)
A superficial google search didn't help me to find contra dances in Israel, but maybe there are some hidden places that the web doesn't know about.. anyway, the idea sounds very foreign. If you have any idea where I can find dances like that, tell me.