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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*

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Ooooooo -- thank you. I didn't mean for you to the Googling for me -- but I very much appreciate it. (It's a pet peeve of mine when someone doesn't take the 2 minutes to Google something but wants me to do it for them.)

I'm a fan of ballet. No surprise, I'm sure. I'm a fan of dance, period, but the canon of Irish step dancing just seems so limiting to me. I don't see a lot of emotion or enjoyment amongst the participants and that's a total turn off.

One of the rumors that Irish Step dancing developed the way it did (tight arms against the side)is because the style is a response to the British persecution during Ireland's desire for independance.

The English landlords frowned on dancing (and indeed, all forms of Irish culture) as subversive, but the tradition never truly disappeared. In the nineteenth century, the Irish diaspora spread Irish dance all over the world, especially to North America and Australia.

It has also been suggested that the English disapproval of the dancing lead to the upper body positioning. By keeping the hands down and upper body in a normal walking position, a person looking in at dancers through a window would see nothing especially out of the ordinary. This allowed the Irish to continue their dancing under the the English rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_dance

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Somewhere I remember reading this...