To Do Today

[bjarvis]

• Make hotel reservations for ACDC, Washington DC, February, 2008;
  
• Make hotel reservations for Independence Squares fly-in, Lake Harmony, PA, March 2008;
  
• Make hotel reservations for CALLERLAB, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2008;
  
• Send fly-in checklist copy to tdjohnsn;
  
• Update ACDC registration form with hotel information;
  
• Nag kent4str to create 2008 Harper's Ferry Registration form now that we have rates, dates and callers;
  
• Update DC Diamond Circulate registration form with staffing changes;
  
• Dig up prior convention brochures from my files for Lorenzo;
  
• Purchase Halloween candy for the kids that'll never come;
  
• Catch up on bookkeeping from this weekend's trip;
  
• Transcribe ewe_bull_akr's C1 and C2 tips from last Saturday;
  
• Create routine backups of XP workstation and Linux server;
  
• Laundry;
  
• Check balances in Canadian bank accounts;
  
• Make 130 copies each of the Harper's Ferry dance schedule, 2008 registration form, ACDC 2008 registration form, DC Diamond Circulate registration form, etc..
  
• Check and confirm stationery supplies for Harper's Ferry Hoedown;
  
• Prep for next Monday's Mainstream class;
  
• Restore order to the basement;
  
• Check monthly rates for a storage locker.
  

Comments

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

When you transcribe choreo, do you get "a-ha" moments? Is it tough for you to transcribe C2, or is it about the same as C1?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a lot of "a-ha" moments... sometimes it's interesting choreo and sometimes it's the yelps of pain in the background from the dancers. After doing the initial transcription, it's occasionally useful to search the text for examples of unusual calls or formations (eg. magic butterfly or such).

Transcribing the C2 is a little tougher: I have to listen very closely to determine if Anne was actively calling or just cuing a prior call I didn't recognize.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

LOL, I forgot about the cueing, especially from ewe_bull_akr. That must be exceptionally difficult for you to transcribe!

So do we get C2 in your near future?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'd love to get into C2 when/if a course is offered although I'm sure there won't be one in the greater DC for a while longer. Square dancing/calling is the only intellectual stimulation I get these days so I relish the opportunity to learn more.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me. I should make our hotel reservations for CallerLab 08, too.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

Purchase Halloween candy for the kids that'll never come;

make VERY sure that this contains your favourite kinds of candy so that when, tragically, much of it goes unclaimed, your self-sacrificial consuming of the unwanted candy is as pleasant as possible.

(do they have individual treat-sized coffee-crisp(ette)s in your neck of the woods?)