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Dancing April 30th, 2007

Our day scheduleThe ProAm (professional/amateur) competition is over! We did our 48 dances, and now we can get our lives back to normal.

During our grueling practices:

Tony the Teacher: Ok, we’re doing rounds–all the open routines non-stop.

Music starts.

The Girl and I bump into one of the other students and stop.

Tony the Teacher: No, no, you can’t stop. Start again.

Music starts.

We bump into the wall because I misjudge our line of dance in the Viennese Waltz.

Tony the Teacher: No, no, no! You can’t stop. See, if you stop you’re out.

Me: But I don’t want to hurt any of the other people on the floor.

Tony the Teacher, voice raising: If you bump into someone and you stop, you’re done, if someone bumps into you and you stop you’re done. If someone bumps into you and they stop, they’re done, if you bump into someone and they stop, they’re done also. Get it? It’s last man standing. Keep going no matter what! Don’t worry about injuring anyone else!!

The Girl with her two cents: Yeah, don’t stop.

Me, thinking: Ballroom dancing–who knew it was full combative contact? And on top of that, there’s a peanut gallery.

During the competition:

Tony the Teacher was right. It’s like a sort of civilized free-for-all out there. I had to use The Girl as a shield. She got some hard elbows in the side of the face and the back of the head, I got kicked with a heal, but did I stop? No way José.

I wasn’t stopping for anything! Not even the peanut gallery that I was dancing around with.


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  • Dr. Mommy, D.D.S.

    congrats, and welcome back to real-life!

    looking foward to hearing more cheatin’ heart story updates…

  • Anonymous

    knowing the violence of ur nature, im not at all surprised u made it! im sure u enjoyed hurting others. im glad its over for the sake of those poor people and the Girl, poor her!

    CONGRATS!!!

  • Periapex

    Anon: You better watch it or I’m going to come over there to Yodel-Land and visit you in your little chalet on the side of the mountain and wrap your blonde pig tail braids around your neck really, really tightly. And that white apron you wear everywhere…well you don’t want to know what I’m going to do with that!

    Or maybe I’ll just moderate comments on my blog.

  • Anonymous

    SHIT! time to re-locate, cut my hair, throw away the apron and pray!

  • http://www.dentalaggregate.com Lin aka “D.A.”

    That’s so cool! I’ve tried to get my husband to take some dancing lessons but still no interest. Shoot, I’d even be willing to suffer the torture of doing country dances if that would peek his interest. ;)

    Does Dr. Mommy have a blog? I’ve been on a mad hunt for more, and finally found two more.

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    We’re actually picking up 2-step soon…

    The Girl had to drag me to our first lesson (we had received a gift certificate prior to our wedding). We’ve been hooked since. It’s a great couple activity.

    Dr. Mommy’s blog is here. She hasn’t updated in a long time because her personal life has gotten busier and busier. I should never have introduced her to facebook either.

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