Dancing at the wedding
On Sunday Smeages got married. I don't think there are very many of you on here who know him, but I can assure you that this is a minor miracle. His parents still bore a look of astonishment by the end of the day, and his mother actually said to me "none of us expected to see this day, did we?"
Not that Smeagol (Paul to his parents, fellow teachers and his students and possibly even his new wife) isn't a nice guy. He's a very nice guy. But he's one of those nice guys who rarely attracts women, and has been single for far too long, and has developed far too many idiosyncratic habits for most women to cope with for long. And then, about a year ago, he met Debbie and they moved from dating to a new house together to wedding plans at the speed of an RTA. The man who drove a Lotus Elan now drives a lawnmower according to his best man's speech.
It was quite a nice wedding. They didn't have a very big venue, and as a result only ellistar & I, Em & Andy sans LJ, and Maddy sans any tech at all were on the guest list to represent the "old friends from LARP" part of his life. So I felt very privileged to have been invited.
I usually loathe the evening part of wedding do's (which is why I'm not having one), but having spent the last 8 months in dance classes has paid off. Most modern music is basically either a jive, cha-cha, salsa, mambo, rumba or samba depending on the speed and the beat, so ellistar and I danced all night with a blissful disregard for the fact that we probably looked totally out of place in the midst of the usual group shuffling. Being able to properly dance improves these events no end, and I highly recommend it to all.
Not that Smeagol (Paul to his parents, fellow teachers and his students and possibly even his new wife) isn't a nice guy. He's a very nice guy. But he's one of those nice guys who rarely attracts women, and has been single for far too long, and has developed far too many idiosyncratic habits for most women to cope with for long. And then, about a year ago, he met Debbie and they moved from dating to a new house together to wedding plans at the speed of an RTA. The man who drove a Lotus Elan now drives a lawnmower according to his best man's speech.
It was quite a nice wedding. They didn't have a very big venue, and as a result only ellistar & I, Em & Andy sans LJ, and Maddy sans any tech at all were on the guest list to represent the "old friends from LARP" part of his life. So I felt very privileged to have been invited.
I usually loathe the evening part of wedding do's (which is why I'm not having one), but having spent the last 8 months in dance classes has paid off. Most modern music is basically either a jive, cha-cha, salsa, mambo, rumba or samba depending on the speed and the beat, so ellistar and I danced all night with a blissful disregard for the fact that we probably looked totally out of place in the midst of the usual group shuffling. Being able to properly dance improves these events no end, and I highly recommend it to all.