Eep

I have 2 midterms tomorrow, and I haven't studied much for either: I think I'm a bit too casual about this studying business. Oh well. We'll see how it goes: I'm generally better about studying for finals than midterms anyways. I oughtn't count on that. But well, one of them is Linguistics, and I knew half the stuff (or so) before the class started. We'll see how that goes.

Running dancing tonight went pretty well, we had about 10 people overall (people came and left at assorted times), and while there wasn't as much energy as the first time, there wasn't as little as the second time. It worked pretty decently. It's a weird combination of old, mostly faster (although I've been inflicting Ki Eshmera on them: still, for some reason, one of my favorite easy dances) and line dances and new bouncy pop stuff. We taught Hora Nirkoda and Yareiach Limon, and reviewed Eretz Eretz, Ki Eshmera, and I think something else. It was an interesting group- some from teh camp crowd: one guy from a Young Judea background who was had the "camp versions" of things- clearly not original choreography, and it looked rather like areobics, but he seemed to be having fun. He's a BORGling too- I'm finding it interesting how often these groups of mine overlap: the overlaps between BORG, Swing dance, IFD, and Egal seem rather too large to ignore. Someday when I'm feeling particuarly in need of list-making and diagramming, I'll probably draw it all out for myself. It'll be one weird uber-venn-diagram. Most of our other attendees had come before: there were some rather remarkable improvements over 2 weeks. Hopefully this will start forming a core group. It's interesting, because we have one or two folks who would do better with a pure beginners' atmosphere: older dances, more obvious patterns, low stress. And then there are others who want the line dances and the camp shtick- which I can only sort of vaguely provide. And there are a few people who just want upbeat and exciting, either old or pop, but they like the pop stuff. All this in about 10 people. I don't get it. But hey, they're amusing, properly nerdy for the most part, and they like what they're doing, which hopefulyl means that I'm doing a decent job.

Eep

I have 2 midterms tomorrow, and I haven't studied much for either: I think I'm a bit too casual about this studying business. Oh well. We'll see how it goes: I'm generally better about studying for finals than midterms anyways. I oughtn't count on that. But well, one of them is Linguistics, and I knew half the stuff (or so) before the class started. We'll see how that goes.

Running dancing tonight went pretty well, we had about 10 people overall (people came and left at assorted times), and while there wasn't as much energy as the first time, there wasn't as little as the second time. It worked pretty decently. It's a weird combination of old, mostly faster (although I've been inflicting Ki Eshmera on them: still, for some reason, one of my favorite easy dances) and line dances and new bouncy pop stuff. We taught Hora Nirkoda and Yareiach Limon, and reviewed Eretz Eretz, Ki Eshmera, and I think something else. It was an interesting group- some from teh camp crowd: one guy from a Young Judea background who was had the "camp versions" of things- clearly not original choreography, and it looked rather like areobics, but he seemed to be having fun. He's a BORGling too- I'm finding it interesting how often these groups of mine overlap: the overlaps between BORG, Swing dance, IFD, and Egal seem rather too large to ignore. Someday when I'm feeling particuarly in need of list-making and diagramming, I'll probably draw it all out for myself. It'll be one weird uber-venn-diagram. Most of our other attendees had come before: there were some rather remarkable improvements over 2 weeks. Hopefully this will start forming a core group. It's interesting, because we have one or two folks who would do better with a pure beginners' atmosphere: older dances, more obvious patterns, low stress. And then there are others who want the line dances and the camp shtick- which I can only sort of vaguely provide. And there are a few people who just want upbeat and exciting, either old or pop, but they like the pop stuff. All this in about 10 people. I don't get it. But hey, they're amusing, properly nerdy for the most part, and they like what they're doing, which hopefulyl means that I'm doing a decent job.