In All Fairness

[shiredancer]

I asked to know more about who_took and as a result she has opened herself to questions, so... I figure I owe her the same opportunity. So I'll take a turn at the "ask a question, any question" thing. Although I can't imagine anybody having anything to ask! I spill all my own best secrets here on LJ, although I've not yet gotten to everything. "Yet" being the operative word... give me time and enough morose middle-of-the-night bouts of insomnia, and it will probably all come out. Now, is that a threat or a promise?

The slumber party proceeds apace; it's not as bad as I feared it would be (but only two little girls showed up, so that makes it a lot easier). Why do they love "Trading Spaces" so much? If anybody ever did things like that to my house, I'd shoot 'em with their own staple gun (for all that I don't believe in any guns at all), and not a jury would find me guilty.

Good things that have happened lately: Good chats, Daisy's back online, Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, and... best of all... my husband bought a lock for our bedroom door. Whoot! No more sneaking downstairs to avoid our middle-of-the-night 10-year-old marauder. Although the fireplace is rather romantic... Okay, so at least we have options now.

Some questions for y'all: Anybody here listen much to Richard and Mimi Farina? And has anybody at all here ever heard of Mary Laswell's "Suds in Your Eye" books? Just curious, you know.

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Re: LOL! You have the BEST stories, anyway!

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Awwwww... Who, that's a tough one! I could easily tell you an embarrassing story, or one that makes me look foolish, or tells of my many mistakes... but I've never thought back on my past in terms of my *favorite* story (or experience). However, Linaelyn has asked a question below that dovetails with this, and I think actually my experiences in Greece are definitely among my favorite memories (and sufficiently embarrassing and foolish to count for all the self-depracating nuances that seem to matter so much to me). So, just like you, I think I will turn that answer into a post, and quite soon, so as not to leave you hanging. Yipes.

I can answer the second question, though, easily. Here are the types of dancing I know: belly dance and Middle Eastern; Polynesian (Tahitian, Hawaiian, Maori); international folk dancing (Greek, Balkan, Israeli, Turkish, North African, English, Scottish, French, Canadian, Scandinavian... etc.); American country dancing (contras, squares, polkas, rags, waltzes) but NOT the square-dance club style of smooth, polished dancing -- more the downhome funky old-timey style; swing dancing; a little bit of country line dancing; some generic stage dancing; and good ol' rock & roll. I can fake a lot of other things, and do a decent Charleston. I danced on stage first in West Side Story at 16, then about 20 I tried ballet and was told that my legs were all wrong for it(!) so tried belly dancing after seeing a troupe perform at the Novato Renaissance Faire and becoming enthralled by it. Belly dancing, after my attempt at ballet, felt *very* natural to me, and I did not find it that difficult to learn. Learning to perform in front of others, though, was really, really hard for my introverted personality and took about 10 years; I finally learned to cultivate a complete alter ego to put on stage. People who have just seen me perform frequently do not recognize me as the dancer, once the costume is off.