Sampling
Class is cancelled for tomorrow, so I can sleep in, which means I can blog before bed.
SwingCal finale tonight. Small event, but three separate follows (with large amounts of dance-cred) complimented me on my leading, which makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I’ve only been serious about dancing since January, but it’s amazing what I’ve accomplished in the intervening time. A major part of that can be attributed to the last two months or so in particular, social dancing in more general, public environments, clubs and whatnot, in Seattle and here in the Bay. Practice. Adaptation. Refining. Learning. Saturday morning, after Lindy at Night, I went to LoS for a few minutes pre-laundry and danced a few. It was then that I first noticed that with well-practiced follows (Movement is what struck me at the time, but it applies more generally) my swing-outs had become actually fluid. It felt better. It felt right. And what’s more is that I wasn’t getting dizzy; usually I do after more than a couple, but when it works, I could just about go the whole song and not mind. My first swing-outs were choppy - as James made an analogy, a slowly-sampled version of what should be a continuous sine wave (signals nerds will understand this comment). I’d also get dizzy after two or three. What’s more, I was merely going through the motions. Now I actually take the lead. This from a few months work.
Classes are wrapping up. Signals courses are going into special topics - namely, the same special topic (wavelets and image compression) which I have of late become a localized expert in, for an undergrad anyway, thanks to my project. Which I also spent some time this week fully understanding; a few days ago it was “oh, this is how I think it works” and now it’s “oh, this is how the code should be written” - which is considerably better.
yawn
Sleep. Sleep is good.
Crossposted from photonzero