I’m gonna continue to ignore whatever is happening, or at least pretend to, by writing about whatever else.
Last week, I had a very frustrating practice with my Irish Dance group. This week was frustrating, though, for a more positive reason. 2 people from our group couldn’t make it, so that means we had 2 subs come fill in. 1 of them were filling in for the one dancer I complained maybe a bit too much about, but.. whatever. I admit, I don’t know her name, even though she’s filled in a few times. Though, I’m always happy to see her since she reminds me of someone…
The other person was actually substituting in for my partner; it was my partner’s daughter, actually. And here’s where the different kind of frustration comes in; she’s, like, really good. She competed this dance at Worlds (the international competition where champions compete). So, it’s really night & day dancing with her. Her mom isn’t bad at dancing, it’s just that the daughter has that fluidity of someone who is actually a dancer.
I say this is frustrating not in the “i can’t believe this kid’s showing me up!” On the contrary, it was because I wasn’t able to actually dance much with her. I ended up hurting my foot last night, so I had to limp through most of practice; ironically, feeling like the dead weight i was complaining about last week.
So really, the frustration being that I couldn’t focus on the fun of dancing in this episode filled with these guest appearances. Next week probably goes back to normal, so oh well; this week was still fun