Adventures in Line Dancing

[osprey_archer]

My line-dancing class is over - did I mention I was taking a line-dancing class? I was taking an eight-week line-dancing class, which wrapped up today. I actually quite enjoyed it, after the third class or so; that was when my feet started to remember some of the dances, so I didn't have to think quite so hard about every single move.

There's a weekly beginners' class that meets at the same community center, on Wednesdays instead of Mondays; I'm thinking about continuing with that, because I enjoyed line dancing and it seems like a good idea to continue with something that I've already started rather than flitting hummingbird-like from one dance style to another without ever settling down anywhere.

Buuuuuut there's also an international folk dancing class, which has two six-week sessions starting in May. I'm not sure if they build on each other or not.

I could take both, I suppose. It is possible to have multiple activities in one week.

I entertain vague visions of eventually making a friend through this - everyone always tells me that joining things is the way to make friends; I have never found it to work out that way, but that's what they tell me. Or at least a buddy to hang out with in class. So far it hasn't worked out, but the dancing part has been fun, at least.

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds paralyzingly terrifying. I guess fandom has become somewhat more mainstream in recent years, but there's being involved in fandom, and then there's writing tens of thousands of words of fanfic involvement in fandom.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I...don't know, either. I guess it depends on whether you feel like you want to/need to discuss fandom with your therapist or whether you can be nonspecific about the context in which you're writing tens of thousands of words.

But the thing about mentioning it at the first meeting is that you haven't yet invested anything into the therapeutic relationship, either. So if the therapist seems judgemental or weird about it, thanks but no thanks, you look for another one. (Therapist shopping as an activity does suck, but IME it sucks regardless, since you can't always predict bad fits.)