Happy Birthday, Lacey! Yay for my wonderful sister!

Happy Birthday, Eric!

Ooh golly, my brain is fried right now. The swing workshop was good, but I think it was a bit much for me. It felt like we didn't learn a whole lot of actual stuff, but what we did was very difficult because we were trying to do it with this whole counter-balancing thing. So it was confusing and four hours of it after being tired from all the dancing last night was a bit much. But maybe it will all sort of settle down in my brain if I go take a nap now.

My last Thursday night two-step and cross-step classes were last night. I must say that my two-step experiment was a resounding success. I definitely feel much more competent at it now, and I'm enjoying it a lot more. It's still a bit tricky, but it's certainly more fun. Since that worked, next I ought to try Latin. Joan is teaching a Latin class starting next week, but I don't think I can take it with my work schedule. It's on Tuesday nights, and in a couple weeks I'm going to be doing some computer workshops on Tuesday nights. But I might be able to take her later class on Ragtime era dances. We'll see.

One amusing thing from the classes last night: In two-step we switching into waltz time for awhile, doing all of our two-step moves in 3. Then in the cross-step class we did cross-step foxtrot, stretching the waltz moves out into 4. And we had the same song each time. Very silly :-)

Happy May Day! And to all the crazy people out there dancing at dawn -- thanks for making the sun come up. :-) I was asleep.