Overload

[bjarvis]

I've been rather busy of late and decided I need a break from LJ.

OK, done. Missed me?


The past week has been largely lacking in focus for me. AC/DC was entirely a blur... I think I danced 5 tips the entire weekend, a disappointment for me as I would loved to have had more chances to dance. On the good side, I made a number of recordings of various callers at work and now have much fantastic material for analysis of calls and calling style.

Still, I look back on the weekend and have to admit I didn't really enjoy it for all the additional work needed. I'm sure I'm supposed to take some satisfaction from contributing to a pleasurable dance experience for others but that isn't working for me this time and martyrdom is never becoming.

Relaxing with wonderful guys apparentparadox and Mark on Sunday evening and Monday was a pleasant rest after the frantic weekend; god, how I love low maintenance house guests. :-)

I was calling Mainstream thru A2 in Baltimore on Tuesday and it turned out to be a somewhat confusing evening for me. In both the calling workshop two weeks ago and Tuesday night's sessions, I was profoundly unsatisfied with my performance. I felt sluggish, uncreative and plodding: I wouldn't hire myself for a gig in that condition. Yet I also received the most compliments yet from various dancers and callers in attendance. Were they just being kind? Is my uncreative & sluggish calling a closer match to the dancers' desires than I perceive? Is there some profound disconnect between my own self-evaluation and reality? If I must err, I prefer it to be in a more harsh self-evaluation than suffering a runaway ego --see my work-related posts for that in action-- but I'd rather have a more precise match between perception & reality.

I slept well last night for the first time in a week. A weekend in a strange bed at the AC/DC hotel wasn't especially restful and kent4str has had some snoring issues this week. If he was snoring last night, I slept through it; in fact, I slept in a little, somehow turning off my alarm without fully waking up. Another night like that would be very helpful.

Tonight, I have a DC Diamond Circulate IAGSDC 2009 convention meeting. For the most part, it will be routine reporting but I do have the DC sales tax exemption forms for signing and a comp registration from Baltimore for their early May fly-in we can use as a raffle prize (I won it at AC/DC but am already registered to attend).

Comments

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Thank you for saying what I shouldn't. Not that I wouldn't, but it's much smoother when I don't.