You can dance if you want to

[gesturejester]

My plans to go out dancing fell through tonight, and I find myself sitting here, wanting to get out of the house and do something energetic, but totally unable to come up with any solo ideas. When I was in Portland, I could go out by myself, and make my own adventures. I didn't need any companions or escorts (some days, I did have fellow

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[fuzzyblu]

I find that there's freedom in newness. Especially newness in a temporary place, I would imagine. Last year I did things by myself all the time in New York. Now I never do. Part of that is that I have more people here to do things with, part of it is that I have less time. But I think that the having more people almost acts as a crutch -- if no one else wants to/is able to do it then it doesn't seem worth doing it. Or something.

[chlomar]

check out www.phillydance.com. There are lots of things that it's appropriate to go solo to. All english and contra dances, for example.

[gesturejester]

Thanks. But it wasn't that kind of dancing;)

Honestly though, the fact that I _could_ go solo doesn't mean that I'll want to. That's more the difficulty that I'm talking about here.