SCA dance practice / Wednesday nights / miscellanea

[juldea]

Tonight I went to SCA dance practice for the first time in about three years. While I had a good time, I don't see myself going back regularly. Due to the nature of the beast, it's still the same dances taught at the lowest-common-denominator level, and that doesn't capture my interest. The social aspect is good, but doesn't make up for the lack of interest otherwise. I did see some very nice people I hadn't seen in a very long time, though, and got some hugs and scratches and rubs in good ways. Yay people.

This leaves the option now of what to do with my Wednesday nights. jmspencer will not be running another D&D game, and AFAIK neither will londo. SCA dance isn't enough to be my regular commitment. So what could be? I do feel like I want something regularly social on my one free weeknight.

Things I'm interested in:

Gaming - finding another tabletop group maybe?

Dancing - either finding a bellydance class that meets Wed nights, or even some other form of dance, given the ability to scale the teaching to my level

Music making - joining a band/orchestra/choir

Crafting - a knitting circle, sewing class, etc

Flying - but I don't have the money now to take lessons, so that's moot

Learning - take some form of community/adult learning course?

Any ideas? Alternately it may be possible to rework my schedule at work to make another night my early night, OR I could just scrap the idea of an early weeknight entirely and work the entire week 12-8. So, options. Many options. And probably I shouldn't be making any decisions right now anyway. But still, thinking!

In other news, I have finally read The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks, alexx_kay!

Comments

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

1. Hi! It's Kelly. I go by Kylie on the Internet. But it's Kelly.
2. My journal is, as I have realized in rereading it just now, pretty awful, at least at the moment. Somehow I don't seem to have posted about anything in the last month besides politics and Desperate Housewives (no, really... sadly...). I used to post about the toys that came out of Burger King kids' meals, at least. I'm not sure why I think that was any better, but I do.
3. I totally love your journal title because I've come across that line ("baring soles/souls") in a couple books by Irvin Yalom, only he thinks it's a piece of incredibly meaningful symbolism, instead of a silly joke.
4. I too am interested in finding a D&D game to play. I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures on Facebook a lot, but that doesn't seem to be the same thing.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

The journal title comes from the song "Fly" by Moxy Fruvous, but I bet several witty andor insightful people have thought of that particular pun. I really like it, though. :)

I am starting a bi-weekly Sunday afternoon D&D game with a friend of mine in Cambridge. Should I ask if there is an extra slot for you? The DM was also the DM for the first D&D campaign I ever joined a couple years back, so he's fine with newbies. And I've never played 4th Ed at all so I'll be clueless often.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to see if there's an extra slot in the game, I'd love that! No worries if there isn't, of course, but that would be lovely if there is. I posted messages once or twice to the Boston D&D boards on meetup.com or somewhere, but nothing seemed to work out, and it's a shame, because I've been excited to try D&D for awhile. Yay!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I will ask then! I'll also give the advice that joining a random group is probably going to be bad news, just because the majority of D&D gamers are socially retarded. You wanna hook up with cool people, like me. >_>