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Oct. 5th, 2010 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreTonight, we had a program at the library. A guy came and gave a 45 minute talk on the history of swing music and dance and then taught those in attendance some very basic swing moves. Since we didn't have all that many people attending and the library was otherwise pretty dead, my boss let me go.
I had a blast. I always forget, when I'm not doing it, how much I love dancing. I'm not terribly good at it but I love it. We only had two guys there so, as I've done the entirety of my life, I danced lead. (Honestly, I find it much less intimidating to dance with women than with men I don't know.) I thought it was going to be a lot more awkward than it ended up being but once we got started, it was hardly awkward at all. And we all pretty much sucked but we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun.
I think that I'm going to try to find some kind of regular dance class around here to start attending. I've felt sort of...touched-starved, lately, and the dancing tonight really helped with that. And maybe I'll make some friends. That would be good. Social contact, potentially with people who aren't women old enough to be my mother!* That would be like a miracle.
So that's a plan.
*The entirety of my regular social interactions - work, church, choir, the Bainbridge movie group - are dominated by women who are old enough to be my mother or older. And they're nice women and I like a lot of them but there's really only so much "Oh, you're so young" and "When you get to be my age" and "You're so much like my daughter" I can take before I start aggressively talking about exceeding geeky and fannish things in self-defense.
I had a blast. I always forget, when I'm not doing it, how much I love dancing. I'm not terribly good at it but I love it. We only had two guys there so, as I've done the entirety of my life, I danced lead. (Honestly, I find it much less intimidating to dance with women than with men I don't know.) I thought it was going to be a lot more awkward than it ended up being but once we got started, it was hardly awkward at all. And we all pretty much sucked but we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun.
I think that I'm going to try to find some kind of regular dance class around here to start attending. I've felt sort of...touched-starved, lately, and the dancing tonight really helped with that. And maybe I'll make some friends. That would be good. Social contact, potentially with people who aren't women old enough to be my mother!* That would be like a miracle.
So that's a plan.
*The entirety of my regular social interactions - work, church, choir, the Bainbridge movie group - are dominated by women who are old enough to be my mother or older. And they're nice women and I like a lot of them but there's really only so much "Oh, you're so young" and "When you get to be my age" and "You're so much like my daughter" I can take before I start aggressively talking about exceeding geeky and fannish things in self-defense.
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Date: 2010-10-06 05:12 pm (UTC)Anyway. It was fun, and there were a decent number of people there, and they were younger. If there is any such thing in your area around a college, I would think it might be similar. :)