Just a whirlwind of sociability

[hsapiens]

Anyone who knows me in real life knows how out of character this is for me, but tonight kicks off a round of socializing.

Tonight, I get to meet msjudi and some of her family! We're having dinner at a lovely Montrose restaurant with excellent food, even if I am a heathen and have to ask for a fork. My chopstick skills are just below, "non-existent." We've been planning this for more than a month now so I'm very, very excited.

Tomorrow night, we're doing a client dinner. Not my cup of tea at all but it's part of life and the people are, happily, interesting. So long as we avoid politics. Must not discuss politics. Have to make nice. Never in a million years thought I'd know people who have names like Lolly. I guess I'm still overcoming a few prejudices of my own.

Friday we're going to dinner and "Riverdance" with Joe's mom. Dinner sounds great though I suspect Riverdance will cease to be entertaining after about 10 minutes. I love dance but the structured and stiff posture of Irish step dancing doesn't do it for me.

Sunday there's a big gathering of friends to see some college buddies who are visiting from New Mexico. I must remember to take the camera so I can snap some more pics that will never be uploaded because I am damned, damned lazy. *cough*Pics of Chuck's B-day*cough* And answer that eVite when I get home so they know they have to feed me. *g*

Comments

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

wtf?!? You never told me this! I had no idea you'd studied ballet. I should just call you my Swiss Army Yankee Friend, shouldn't I? (Notice how I'm being good and not making any lame jokes about studying positions?)

The entire point of the company was to demonstrate that people of color could do classical ballet.

My brain boggles that it was somehow necessary to prove this.

[jalabert.livejournal.com]

When Arthur Mitchell was in the New York City Ballet, he was the only black person in the company and very likely the only black in any major ballet company on the planet.

As for me, I took ballet lessons from the time I was 3 till I was nearly eighteen--not that I was ever seriously considering a career in it--my mom was the receptionist at a dance studio and all her girls got free lessons.

By the way, I also played viola, fenced on a nationally ranked college team, and I can read four languages (badly) other than my native tongue. You're already well aware of what my native tongue can do...