Techno Contra Dance, Tutoring, Robot
Went to Portland's first Techno Contra Dance last night. It was really something. The flier said it was an event that would not be suitable for beginners and that there would be no walk throughs. What it didn't say was that the music would never stop. While I enjoy skipping the walk throughs when the dances are simple and the dancers good, I do like for the music to stop for partner changes. And I do like the music to stop for music changes too. Or at least when they are spinning CDs I like it too, live contra bands do a fine job of that. Anyway, it was way more exhausting than your regular contra dance. The dances were incredibly easy and most of the dancers were good. By it was challenging to see the other dancers, which made it harder for people to help each other and thus the dancers who weren't so good were more annoying. Also, I found the techno lighting and music pretty disorienting. So it ended up being a challenging dance on a number of levels even though we were doing easy contras. I think I prefer for my contras to be challenging in more conventional levels.
As is all too often the case, I didn't sleep very well after. It's really hard to stay hydrated for that much exercise. When we got home we kept ourselves awake to drink a bunch of juice, which helped over normal. But after sleeping really soundly until 2am, I was awake for quite a while. It doesn't help that our apartment keeps overheating. And I had a dream that we were somewhere out of the country (Japan, I think) and accidently wondered into a really expensive restaurant where our dinner for 6 people ended up costing almost $1000. And I didn't even remember it afterward! Fortunately, it turned out to be a dream and I also don't actually have to pay for it!
Josh has today off work, but unfortunately I still have to work. Well, I suppose "have to" is a strong word, but one of my students has homework over the 3-day weekend and a quiz Monday and has questions. The other I really do want the opportunity to do some extra work with outside of his normal homework. He's reasonably smart and in pre-algebra, but has not mastered multiple digit multiplication or fraction addition and subtraction. But it still feels like kind of a lame way to spend Josh's day off.
I'm amusing myself this morning watching my new floor cleaning robot do it's thing. I ended up getting the "Mint" robot rather than a roomba. It sweeps and mops rather than vacuuming. One might accuse it of moving the dirt around, but I'm hoping it only appears that way because it is cleaning under things where my regular vacuum can't reach and that therefore haven't been cleaned since we moved in. And also cleaning under things like the stove that maybe haven't been cleaned since the building was built. I'm hoping that if I run it regularly, once those places are actually clean it will stop getting so overloaded with dustbunnies that it leaves some of them behind elsewhere.
It's supposed to stop raining and get partly sunny later this morning. I'm really excited. I think we've had something like 60 days of straight rain. Or near enough to that.
As is all too often the case, I didn't sleep very well after. It's really hard to stay hydrated for that much exercise. When we got home we kept ourselves awake to drink a bunch of juice, which helped over normal. But after sleeping really soundly until 2am, I was awake for quite a while. It doesn't help that our apartment keeps overheating. And I had a dream that we were somewhere out of the country (Japan, I think) and accidently wondered into a really expensive restaurant where our dinner for 6 people ended up costing almost $1000. And I didn't even remember it afterward! Fortunately, it turned out to be a dream and I also don't actually have to pay for it!
Josh has today off work, but unfortunately I still have to work. Well, I suppose "have to" is a strong word, but one of my students has homework over the 3-day weekend and a quiz Monday and has questions. The other I really do want the opportunity to do some extra work with outside of his normal homework. He's reasonably smart and in pre-algebra, but has not mastered multiple digit multiplication or fraction addition and subtraction. But it still feels like kind of a lame way to spend Josh's day off.
I'm amusing myself this morning watching my new floor cleaning robot do it's thing. I ended up getting the "Mint" robot rather than a roomba. It sweeps and mops rather than vacuuming. One might accuse it of moving the dirt around, but I'm hoping it only appears that way because it is cleaning under things where my regular vacuum can't reach and that therefore haven't been cleaned since we moved in. And also cleaning under things like the stove that maybe haven't been cleaned since the building was built. I'm hoping that if I run it regularly, once those places are actually clean it will stop getting so overloaded with dustbunnies that it leaves some of them behind elsewhere.
It's supposed to stop raining and get partly sunny later this morning. I'm really excited. I think we've had something like 60 days of straight rain. Or near enough to that.