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Monday, November 14, 2005

Workshops, World Records, Dancers, and Coupledom

Continuing the recent trend of never being home during the weekend, I spent the last few days in Mt. Pleasant at a lindy/blues workshop with Jeff and Kristen from Waterloo, Ontario; Jeff is one of my favorite leads, so months ago when Matt (my teaching partner this summer) told me that he was hosting them I bookmarked the date on my calendar. As expected, it was an excellent weekend of dance--like last year, I took the workshop as a lead, and watching Jeff and Kristen I realized just how much Matt and I had stolen from them in terms of teaching. (Why re-invent the wheel?) Approximate stats:

Hours of workshops: 11
Hours of dances: 13
End time of latest dance: 5:30am
Number of mock fights over who gets to dance with Jeff: 3
Hours Dawn got to sleep: 7
Times Dawn almost fell asleep while driving home: too many to count

This is all quite normal--a bit tame, really. So it's no wonder that 41 lindy hoppers in Cleveland (they started out with 42) set the world record for Longest Dance Party in 2003. They danced for 52 hours, 3 minutes--and the day after the insanity, a handful of them were out dancing again.

On a slightly different note, apparently this is the month for dancers to hook up: three new couples have formed within the last three weeks (and mind you, the scene is small). And yesterday I found out about three other couples that have become official among InterVarsity friends. Must be something in the air....

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