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[freyakitten]

Itchy. Itchy itchy itchy. Not as itchy as last week, and the lip-blisters went down as soon as I got away from spray deodorant, so I'll add that to my list of 'explain gently and then complain bitterly until people remember' allergies. Others were remembered by random people throughout this trip, so I am very happy. I did not get mint blown in my face, nor cigarette smoke, nor chewing gum. Good people. Pat pat.

The hyperactivity which plagued me at intervals throughout the bridge trip has finally broken (yay for feeling able to dance the night through and bloody well trying to, sitting very few songs out, on a boiling hot night where the singlet I was wearing was too much outside the club, much less on the inadequately airconditioned dance floor, and singing along to every song I knew with impromptu harmony, probably startling various (interstate, and may not see again) dance partners who went to sit down at intervals), so now there is only the feedback. Still-healing feet-blisters, slightly bruised foot bones, brainfog, general lassitude, and lactic acid oboy. Not sure if the backache is unhappy kidneys again or just muscle-ache from dips done with flabby muscles. Liver definitely a little tender. Reflux nasty, has been all trip, except when I pulled an attempted all-nighter when, by rights, I should have been nauseous all the next day.

Bastard booked me a doctors' appointment for Friday stupid o'clock. He's a good boy.

Still, in better health than I usually am at the end of a bridge trip. The nasal saline, overdosing on vitamins, echinacea, mineral supplements and antihistamines appears to have paid off. Yay.

Must organise dancing lessons. Remind me about those until I do it. There's only one Ceroc place that does classes on Wednesday nights, or after, not during, work for Bastard, in Adelaide as far as I can see.

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Re: Yoinked from www.jiveoholic.org.uk

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Yes that would be rather difficult with couples of disparate sizes, just purely from a dynamics viewpoint. Plus the sweep across the waist could get embarrassing unless you know the lady well if the gentleman is too tall. <grin>

Re: Yoinked from www.jiveoholic.org.uk

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Most of it gets kind of embarrassing unless you're both acting like very carefully platonic people or you know the other person well enough to relax and not care about what could be described as trailing hands.

Re: Yoinked from www.jiveoholic.org.uk

[mabraham.livejournal.com]

It is a sweep across posterior waist, not anterior :-) We do try to avoid the boob swipe!

But seriously, despite appearances the whole exercise is extremely platonic. That's often hard for non-danceurs to appreciate. One lady at a pub in town last Monday saw a friend of mine dancing quite provocatively with two different guys and leaving with a third and asked about all three as a couple... erm, no, nothing there. At least around Ceroc in Canberra, only guys have ever been the subject of stories of people who don't get the seperation between what you do on the floor and what you do off the floor - and they get the boot rapidly applied by everyone.

Re: Yoinked from www.jiveoholic.org.uk

[mabraham.livejournal.com]

The Octopus is fine... beginner guys can normally lead it adequately in their first lesson and since it's almost totally passive, even ladies who've never seen it don't have any problems with it. The only real geometric constraint is that both have to be able to reach with one arm to above the other's head at different times. If that's a problem, then stepping close to the man's back to reduce the angle at the apex is the way to ease it. Now you just have to not be a DD cup.

Re: Yoinked from www.jiveoholic.org.uk

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Now you just have to not be a DD cup

I'm pretty sure that's never going to be a problem...