Party Week, Day #4
Dec. 16th, 2005 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday at work, we had the following party:
No routing sheet was used, nor did Terry provide an interpretive dance. However, we did socialize for a full hour, which is not like us. It was fun. My favorite dish was a milk chocolate cake made from a mix, frosted with cream cheese frosting. I got to bring a slice home and it's in the fridge right now ready whenever I am. Yum!
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This evening we had a dance workshop on hustle--not The Hustle from the song, but a couple dance you do to disco music. (I have not watched "Saturday Night Fever" since I first learned the hustle, so I don't know if that's what they were doing. And I'm in no big rush to ever see that movie again.) I'd learned some steps of this dance a couple of times from another instructor who was pretty good, but that was a long time ago. It's pretty tiring.
In class, at first it seemed like a completely different step partially because it was a little different and partially because he taught, as the first step, a step that I had never done.
By the end of class it felt like the same dance and it was much less tiring. This is one of those dances where you go toward and away from your partner. When you're together, you're leaning toward each other, leaning on each other's hands. When you're away from each other, many people lean away, pulling on each other's hands. Richard discourages this technique because of the risk of hands getting sweaty and thus slippery and then bye-bye partner, it was nice knowing you. Instead you can both keep leaning in, which works surprisingly well and is extremely safe. And there's the added bonus that for me, this makes the steps you take while far apart require virtually no effort. I'll admit that it's slightly less fun or dangerous, but then you can do much more ridiculous steps, so it comes out just as fun and more flashy for the same effort.
Friday, let's celebrate Josh and Laura's birthdays, the end of the fall semester, the Degree Audit section moving to Main 1, recognize Ted's last day, and get an early start on the generically recognized holidays! Bring whatever food/dessert/snack item catches your fancy. If desired, we can route around a sign-up sheet so that everyone doesn't bring paper plates. Terry has agreed to provide an interpretive dance of the day's events as part of our festivity highlights.
Friday, December 16th
2:00 PM
Somewhere in our office area
No routing sheet was used, nor did Terry provide an interpretive dance. However, we did socialize for a full hour, which is not like us. It was fun. My favorite dish was a milk chocolate cake made from a mix, frosted with cream cheese frosting. I got to bring a slice home and it's in the fridge right now ready whenever I am. Yum!
**
This evening we had a dance workshop on hustle--not The Hustle from the song, but a couple dance you do to disco music. (I have not watched "Saturday Night Fever" since I first learned the hustle, so I don't know if that's what they were doing. And I'm in no big rush to ever see that movie again.) I'd learned some steps of this dance a couple of times from another instructor who was pretty good, but that was a long time ago. It's pretty tiring.
In class, at first it seemed like a completely different step partially because it was a little different and partially because he taught, as the first step, a step that I had never done.
By the end of class it felt like the same dance and it was much less tiring. This is one of those dances where you go toward and away from your partner. When you're together, you're leaning toward each other, leaning on each other's hands. When you're away from each other, many people lean away, pulling on each other's hands. Richard discourages this technique because of the risk of hands getting sweaty and thus slippery and then bye-bye partner, it was nice knowing you. Instead you can both keep leaning in, which works surprisingly well and is extremely safe. And there's the added bonus that for me, this makes the steps you take while far apart require virtually no effort. I'll admit that it's slightly less fun or dangerous, but then you can do much more ridiculous steps, so it comes out just as fun and more flashy for the same effort.