Music in my head

Every time I go swing dancing, the music gets so thoroughly stuck in my head that I wake up in the middle of the night and my mind is still dancing. I wasn't in as much of a dancing mood as I would have liked last night, but it was still fun (and a couple of the last songs were really infectious).

It's such an interesting activity, I'm realizing, because one can't really practice it alone. I tried to reluctantly help this one guy who had never swing-danced before (talk about the blind leading the blind), and he seemed to enjoy it a bit in a surprised sort of way, but I get the feeling it will take him a while to really let loose and dance. I feel bad now, that I was so reluctant, when I consider how wonderful all of the other dancers are to dance with me (J said he also still feels like a bad dancer, but it's all relative, eh?). Watching people learn to row is a similar process--some people (especially younger kids) just kind of pick it up, while others seem to struggle to figure out how to get their bodies to move. I don't know if it's about kinesthetic awareness or what, but it feels good to move to a rhythm.

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Fear my kitchen

Today was definitely a Day o' Domesticity. J came over for coffee and waffles with strawberries and chocolate ice cream. (to make popcultureicon jealous: they looked pretty much like this:

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But before he came over, I made up some fresh hummingbird food and sewed the remainder of an apron--I'll post pics tomorrow 'cause the fabric is extra-special (in other words, it's covered in insects).

Then there might have been some sitting around and talking, and some more general lounging about at a most dilatory pace. Subsequently, I made some hummus (although I'm not entirely happy with it--it's a wee bit too tangy, probably because I had to use fake lemon juice). Then J and I helped A move furniture to her new digs, and then I came home and cooked some delicious Indian food--potatoes in a tangy tamarind sauce, and spicy yellow squash. Yum.

So lots of cooking, overall. Which is good, because now I have all sorts of delicious foods sitting around that are in need of eating, and only a moderate handful of vegetables left from various CSAs that are yet uncooked. It has been a vegetable bonanza for the past month, and I've been falling behind on eating them all. I think they are also to blame for making me too skinny. More fat! More protein! Fewer vegetables!