It burns!!
Ok, maybe not so much, now – but, last night, I made the mistake of telling R that I was too out of shape to keep up with him. He was like, “You’re in better shape than you think you are.” I just looked at him like he’d lost his mind.
So, he grabs my hand and drags me out onto the dance floor. This is a guy who can literally dance non-stop from 8pm to 2am. Yeah, six hours straight. He kept me on that floor for four fast songs – a polka, a two step and two one steps. By a bit over ½ the way through the third dance my legs were burning hard core. By the end of the fourth, my legs were feeling a bit better, but I could feel the work out they were getting. Interestingly, my breathing was actually not that bad. R escorted me off and said, “See, better than you realized.” I just groaned at him and popped his shoulder. He laughed at me.
I really do like the guys – though, I do need to round up some more dance partners. I just find it so hard to go against my deeply ingrained belief that it is not right for a woman to ask a man she’s never met to dance. I mean, seriously difficult. I don’t care about the whole “no” business. It’s just that it’s not taken right when a woman asks a man to dance. 99.9% of the guys who get asked to dance won’t see it as just a request to dance. And I am not there to pick up guys. R says that if they take it as more to just put them in their place…and, I guess so – but, man…I dunno.
The site decided to crash in the middle of this post so you are all saved from my rambling – however, all that typing that is no longer present did reveal something to me. One reason I don’t ask men to dance aside from my ingrained belief that it’s just not appropriate is the response that I’ve encountered from the associated female. I don’t care how bad I’m looking that day – the second I approach a man and start talking to him things get tense. And, heaven forbid, should I actually dance or otherwise engage in a social activity with said male. The results of such actions in the past do not merit discussion – but, those results are one of the reasons I will hard core hesitate to ask a man to dance.
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