delightful weekend mostly spent away from the computer

[kareina]

I had another delightful weekend mostly spent away from the computer. I managed to read LJ over breakfast, but actually posting takes time. Saturday was gaming in the afternoon, and projects before and after. Sunday was SCA fighter practice, followed by a birthday party for the exchequer, which was quite fun. I got to meet more people in the shire, and was introduced to a Swedish birthday party tradition (normally only for kid's parties, but we are all kids at heart). I had been talking to someone (in English) and suddenly most of the people who had been sitting around stood up and started heading up stairs. I asked and apparently the Swedish announcement I hadn't noticed (since I didn't understand it) summoned us upstairs for fishing. "Excuse me?" I asked, thinking I had misheard. I hadn't. Fishing it was. We stood in line on the stairs, and when we reached the top we were faced with a sheet, to which a variety of paper fish had been attached, mostly blocking the entrance to a room. Handed a fishing rod we each cast our line over the sheet in turn, and when we felt the tug on the line drew it back to discover a bag full of candy + a box of raisins attached. I can see why this is a popular activity. I happily ate my raisins and gave my lollies to archinonlive, who was kind enough to give me his raisins, too (he would have enjoyed eating them himself, but since the raisins were all I wanted from the loot he was happy to share).

Sunday evening was our normal folk music session (he plays violin with the other musicians, I happily enjoy the entertainment while working on sewing projects, or, as in this week, take a short nap as well as sewing) followed by folk dancing.

Monday I should have been doing uni work, but all I really managed was three loads of laundry during the day, and folk dancing in the evening. The Sunday class is an advanced class, but Monday is the "continuing beginning" class (I skipped the beginning beginning class, since I have a partner with over 10 years experience at this style of dance, and am a quick learn). As with many dance classes we change partners after every dance. When the class begun it was almost painful to dance with some of the other students they were having such difficulty managing to coordinate the steps with the music. However, now that the class is nearly over they have all got the hang of the basics. Now it is fun to dance with all of them, and not just the ones who started the class knowing what they are doing.

Today, on the other hand, I did manage to get uni work accomplished, and even sent my erstwhile boss the draft of the paper in progress (which still needs quite a bit more information added) so that he has a chance to give me feedback and suggest directions before I write too much of it. I also gathered together the figures which have been mentioned thus far, added captions, and put them into a single pdf.

I tried stopping into the geology dept to talk to someone there about local rocks, but he wasn't in his office just then, so I e-mailed him instead to ask when would be a good time. But mostly it was an excuse to get out and enjoy some fresh air. It is so very much spring out there--deep slush and puddles everywhere. Walking requires either waterproof shoes, being very careful, or not minding getting your feet cold and wet. Have I mentioned I don't really care for spring? All of my beautiful snow melting and turning into slush, and then refreezing at night to so that it is good and slippery the next day when it starts to melt again. Ick. In an ideal world spring is when I would go on holiday somewhere else, so that when I left the world was beautiful and snowy, and when I returned the snow had been replaced by green grass. But that isn't happening this year. Oh well, I can't really complain--I am having much too much fun living here!

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[catagon3.livejournal.com]

That fishing thing sounds very vaguely familiar. Maybe at a preschool friend's birthday party? Anyway, sounds fun!