It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. |
RotationThursday, August 20, 1998
In my entry a year ago, I talked about my dear friend Luke McGuff. So that means it's been a year since his journal was added to Open Pages! He's taken a hiatus from his journal due to life stuff, but the entries he has already posted are well worth reading.
My contribution to the latest issue of Metajournals was posted today. It's an adaptation of a presentation I gave at work earlier in the summer, about the easiest things you can do to add DHTML to your web site. I'm rather tired tonight. This was my third night in a row out dancing! After dance class, I went to B&O Espresso for coffee with B--, who had contacted me from my yahoo ad last week. It turns out that what he's really looking for is not a romantic interest, but an activity partner. He wrote to me, "I got a whiff of a lowkey, laidback neighborhood kind of personality from your ad. There was not the usual talk of rock climbing, blading, bicycling, zest for life, love of animals, $ecurity, personal growth, love of the "arts," and all the other beer and soap commerical rot that characterizes most of these ads. " I think it's true that if there were as many folks hiking as talk about it in personal ads, it ought to be bumper to bumper on every trail in Washington state! So he drank green tea and I had a Milky Way espresso-flavored shake, and we chatted and got acquainted. He had only looked at a few entries from this journal (amazing! how could he resist?), so I had a lot to tell. B-- works at a library in the area. I asked him if it was OK to name him here, but didn't get an explicit answer, so I'll stick with the intial.
When we were done, I drove back to the Russian Center and danced some more. Today was Joe Ross's birthday (we had a great dance together at the Century Ballroom last night! We went to town on a jazzy version of Old Macdonald's Farm.) but he was standing outside collecting admissions, so he and I danced on the sidewalk, both one-handed. I was holding a glass of water, and he was holding a wad of dollar bills. I took the opportunity tonight to suggest to Jen and Chris that the couples in our class who refuse to rotate partners with the rest of us should be asked not to dance in the circle. If they aren't rotating, there's no need for them to be there! Let them be on the stage, or in a corner, or somewhere else where they don't confuse us and take up room. Jen especially agreed. Such folks are really hurting their own development as dancers. They only learn to adapt to each other's idiosyncrasies!
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