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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

"We are the Swing Dancers. Life as you know it is over. Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."

Lindy hop is ridiculously addictive. And with any luck, a small handful of non-dancer friends will become similarly obsessed dancers by the end of the year. I spent last weekend at the Cleveland Lindy Exchange--it’s funny, initially I wasn’t that interested in going but figured I’d somehow end up in Ohio since the exchange was only four hours away, so while at the Pittsburgh Blues Weekend I made my registration official--and desperately want to make it to the St. Louis Lindy Blues Exchange this weekend (unfortunately the likelihood of me getting there is slim). You’d never think that you would travel so much for dancing or that it would become a slightly expensive hobby when you first start, but since individual events are fairly cheap thanks to free housing, I’ve been to five exchanges in less than a year (six if you count stopping by the Detroit Exchange for a day) and a small number of miscellaneous out-of-town events. Dancing is one way to make friends all over the country--after a few exchanges, it starts to become strange when you travel and don't recognize most of the people in the room.

Tonight was a prime example of how my life is slowly being taken over by dancing. I was at a lindy/blues workshop for three hours and then came home to teach two of my roommates and a friend from two houses down. Then Steph and I watched video clips from various jam circles, which got her really excited about starting to dance (and since dancers seem to fall into two categories: engineering/computer types and artistic/creative types, the guys are going to be all over her—-not only is she beautiful and adorable, but she’s a she-geek).

But hey, at least all this dancing means that I can indulge one of my other obsessions--chocolate--guilt-free.

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