Dragging

I didn't sleep well last night. It felt like I ingested a huge quantity of sugar and caffeine before going to bed, but unless those were the secret ingredients in kent4str's lime-pepper chicken & broccoli, it must be something else.

My best guess is that last night's restlessness was due to low level anxiety and stress. While I'm winding down a number of projects, this is still a busy week and job uncertainty isn't helping. A couple of nights at home instead of being on the run should help; now I have to see if I can schedule that in.

On the good side, my sore neck from yesterday now feels fine.

Dragging

I didn't sleep well last night. It felt like I ingested a huge quantity of sugar and caffeine before going to bed, but unless those were the secret ingredients in kent4str's lime-pepper chicken & broccoli, it must be something else.

My best guess is that last night's restlessness was due to low level anxiety and stress. While I'm winding down a number of projects, this is still a busy week and job uncertainty isn't helping. A couple of nights at home instead of being on the run should help; now I have to see if I can schedule that in.

On the good side, my sore neck from yesterday now feels fine.

Tonight's Square Dancing

I called Mainstream and Plus for the Chesapeake Squares tonight, the first club night since their fast-track Plus class last weekend with caller_dayle. We had a great turn-out of three squares.

I had originally planned to run through the Plus list, practising as much as possible. Alas, that was derailed early on but with good cause: one dancer couldn't make the Sunday session so he lacked eight calls on the list. While there wasn't enough time to drill each of the new calls as much as I'd have liked, I was at least able to introduce him to acey deucey, dixie grand, 3/4 tag, explode & (whatever), spin chain & exchange the gears, trade the wave, ping pong circulate and grand swing thru.

We also drilled load the boat... a lot of folks had difficulty with the centers' part. Diamonds were kinda OK, although some folks were confusing 'cut the diamond' with 'flip the diamond.' I had hoped to work on 'relay the deucey' but we ran out of time.

There's a supplemental workshop/dance this coming Saturday but I'll miss that too since we're heading to the caller/cuer mini-con in New Brunswick, NJ.

Tonight's Square Dancing

I called Mainstream and Plus for the Chesapeake Squares tonight, the first club night since their fast-track Plus class last weekend with caller_dayle. We had a great turn-out of three squares.

I had originally planned to run through the Plus list, practising as much as possible. Alas, that was derailed early on but with good cause: one dancer couldn't make the Sunday session so he lacked eight calls on the list. While there wasn't enough time to drill each of the new calls as much as I'd have liked, I was at least able to introduce him to acey deucey, dixie grand, 3/4 tag, explode & (whatever), spin chain & exchange the gears, trade the wave, ping pong circulate and grand swing thru.

We also drilled load the boat... a lot of folks had difficulty with the centers' part. Diamonds were kinda OK, although some folks were confusing 'cut the diamond' with 'flip the diamond.' I had hoped to work on 'relay the deucey' but we ran out of time.

There's a supplemental workshop/dance this coming Saturday but I'll miss that too since we're heading to the caller/cuer mini-con in New Brunswick, NJ.