BollyBellyBall
Well my Bellydance and Bollywood classes ended this week, and no Ballroom Dancing because Daddy's gone. :'( No dancing? Do not want!
I should be sensible and just take the gym classes since those're free...but they're also boring and overcrowded and not fun. Not fuuuuun. So I'll sign up for the next Bollywood class! Woo! And I was going to sign up for the next Bellydance*, but then I blithely agreed to perform in a show (May 31 and June 6) with my Bolly teacher, not quite realizing what that would entail. I will certainly need to buy a costume, and we'll have practice sessions (free), and if we want to do the whole song we need to learn more moves (not free). I cannot afford to do it all! Nor do I have time, because coordinating 2 jobs and 4 dance classes = NO. I think we won't be learning the extra moves, but if the other people in the class are up for it, do I want more Bolly or more Belly? Choices! I hate them! I'm leaning towards more Bolly because I look forward to that class more than the Belly, and I'm not sure I can get that everywhere whereas pretty much everywhere has Belly classes these days. And I think the Belly would be more repetitive than the Bolly (because you have to take 3 level 1 classes before you can move to Level 2, so there'll be a new song+choreography but the same basic moves).
I would like, at this juncture, to point out that signing up for these classes is a commitment. This will be the second time in a row I've made a 2-month commitment to be in the same place! I'm not sure if that's a breakthrough or a bad sign. It's something though. And it makes me feel way dumb for not signing on to MA instead, except then I wouldn't have the RAC job (which, despite some recent drama, is still mostly enjoyable. If GNC was a TV show it'd be a sitcom, if RAC was a TV show it'd be a Very Catty reality show), and I wouldn't have taken these dance classes. So...life. Yeah. I need to stop yoyoing between wishing I'd never been born and wishing I could have Bartish scouts so I could live every possible Choose Your Own Adventure choice.
Anyways! About that *!
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Last weekend I went to the Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, which I present as further evidence that my city rocks. They had an art show, bondage classes (Bondage 101 for Beginners is the greatest sounding class ever, yes/yes?), bellydance with snakes, drumming, burlesque dancing, an art class, some live girls who modeled bondage, some local vendors of related things like body painting...and a bunch of very interesting people walking around. And some creepy people, but they were at a minimum. My Bellydance teacher (B) was there, teaching her Cardio Strip and Art of Exotic Dancing classes. We were at the belly+snakes show together and when the performer dragged her up on stage, B spotted me and dragged me up on stage so she wouldn't be the only one performing with the slightly weird snake lady. Turns out I was the only person there she knew (other than her genial stalker) so we stuck together the rest of the day. B's AoED class is before my Bolly class, so I've seen the routine a bunch of times. So I was able to learn the whole thing in the hour festival class, though everyone else ditched so we were dancing around in boas (the feathery kind, not the snake) on our own while some biker guy enthusiastically catcalled us. So that was special. B and I don't have much in common**, but she's fun to hang out with. She's amusingly lascivious. The main reason I want to take another Belly class is I feel like I shouldn't waste knowing the teacher. Which is probably a leftover impulse from college, but still. Well, and I like bellydancing and would like to get better at it. It's great for coordination because in the more advanced moves you're moving your hands, arms, shoulders, chest, hips, and legs all at the same time in different ways. Currently it breaks my brain a little. And I can't shimmy. But I'm pretty good with my hips. I think I've exhausted this topic now. Onto the **!
**While we were eating lunch I mentioned that I'd been in Rocky (I think I was explaining why the sight of a large woman in lingerie and handcuffs being led around on a leash didn't faze me).
B: "Oh I know someone who was in Rocky! Do you know Rob Ban___?"
Me: ::spittake::
Literally, if I'd had a mouthful of water I would have sprayed it all over B. As it was I just made a really funny noise, choked a little, laughed, and then explained that Rob was my ex-boyfriend. Apparently she started hanging out with him soon after we had our last...whatever. What do you call it when you break up with someone who you weren't really dating at the time? That thing. Yeah. So that's what we have in common! Woo! Oh Rochester. So big yet so tiny.
I should be sensible and just take the gym classes since those're free...but they're also boring and overcrowded and not fun. Not fuuuuun. So I'll sign up for the next Bollywood class! Woo! And I was going to sign up for the next Bellydance*, but then I blithely agreed to perform in a show (May 31 and June 6) with my Bolly teacher, not quite realizing what that would entail. I will certainly need to buy a costume, and we'll have practice sessions (free), and if we want to do the whole song we need to learn more moves (not free). I cannot afford to do it all! Nor do I have time, because coordinating 2 jobs and 4 dance classes = NO. I think we won't be learning the extra moves, but if the other people in the class are up for it, do I want more Bolly or more Belly? Choices! I hate them! I'm leaning towards more Bolly because I look forward to that class more than the Belly, and I'm not sure I can get that everywhere whereas pretty much everywhere has Belly classes these days. And I think the Belly would be more repetitive than the Bolly (because you have to take 3 level 1 classes before you can move to Level 2, so there'll be a new song+choreography but the same basic moves).
I would like, at this juncture, to point out that signing up for these classes is a commitment. This will be the second time in a row I've made a 2-month commitment to be in the same place! I'm not sure if that's a breakthrough or a bad sign. It's something though. And it makes me feel way dumb for not signing on to MA instead, except then I wouldn't have the RAC job (which, despite some recent drama, is still mostly enjoyable. If GNC was a TV show it'd be a sitcom, if RAC was a TV show it'd be a Very Catty reality show), and I wouldn't have taken these dance classes. So...life. Yeah. I need to stop yoyoing between wishing I'd never been born and wishing I could have Bartish scouts so I could live every possible Choose Your Own Adventure choice.
Anyways! About that *!
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Last weekend I went to the Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, which I present as further evidence that my city rocks. They had an art show, bondage classes (Bondage 101 for Beginners is the greatest sounding class ever, yes/yes?), bellydance with snakes, drumming, burlesque dancing, an art class, some live girls who modeled bondage, some local vendors of related things like body painting...and a bunch of very interesting people walking around. And some creepy people, but they were at a minimum. My Bellydance teacher (B) was there, teaching her Cardio Strip and Art of Exotic Dancing classes. We were at the belly+snakes show together and when the performer dragged her up on stage, B spotted me and dragged me up on stage so she wouldn't be the only one performing with the slightly weird snake lady. Turns out I was the only person there she knew (other than her genial stalker) so we stuck together the rest of the day. B's AoED class is before my Bolly class, so I've seen the routine a bunch of times. So I was able to learn the whole thing in the hour festival class, though everyone else ditched so we were dancing around in boas (the feathery kind, not the snake) on our own while some biker guy enthusiastically catcalled us. So that was special. B and I don't have much in common**, but she's fun to hang out with. She's amusingly lascivious. The main reason I want to take another Belly class is I feel like I shouldn't waste knowing the teacher. Which is probably a leftover impulse from college, but still. Well, and I like bellydancing and would like to get better at it. It's great for coordination because in the more advanced moves you're moving your hands, arms, shoulders, chest, hips, and legs all at the same time in different ways. Currently it breaks my brain a little. And I can't shimmy. But I'm pretty good with my hips. I think I've exhausted this topic now. Onto the **!
**While we were eating lunch I mentioned that I'd been in Rocky (I think I was explaining why the sight of a large woman in lingerie and handcuffs being led around on a leash didn't faze me).
B: "Oh I know someone who was in Rocky! Do you know Rob Ban___?"
Me: ::spittake::
Literally, if I'd had a mouthful of water I would have sprayed it all over B. As it was I just made a really funny noise, choked a little, laughed, and then explained that Rob was my ex-boyfriend. Apparently she started hanging out with him soon after we had our last...whatever. What do you call it when you break up with someone who you weren't really dating at the time? That thing. Yeah. So that's what we have in common! Woo! Oh Rochester. So big yet so tiny.