A quickie

[dancerjodi]

I'm back at work and have lots to do. I need to do some accounting stuff and then e-mail my old boss, asking her a question about $ and then asking if she's done with my evaluation form (for my school's internship requirement). The paper (all 20+ single spaced pages of it) gets passed in tonight.

Yesterday's trip to the Newport Mansions was a nice one, I fully suggest taking the "behind the scenes" tour at The Elms. You get to see how the house functioned (with its 37 servants) and get to get up on the roof of a Newport Mansion - simply breathtaking! I'm really looking forward to the Gilded Age themed X-mortis in December (and need to find a hat for it that matches my outfit).

You know what's missing from our world today? Dance, finery and celebration! Listening to the songs played in mansion gift shops I was shuffling the Fox Trot across the floor. Standing in the massive marble ballrooms I could picture people doing the Charleston. I guess I'd feel uncomfortable with the level of opulence in those times for those people (I feel uncomfortable having people wait on me at tea at the Ritz), but it doesn't take money to dance.

I picked up a book about Alva Vanderbilt Belmont http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/ew/belmont.htm and another book I've been meaning to get for years http://nhpr.org/view_content/7178/ . The first couple of chapters are about Waltham (where the start of the Industrial Revolution was with the Francis Cabot Lowell Mill). I'm looking forward to reading (and dancing, and cooking, and sewing, and knitting, and . . . )

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Do they teach lessons or expect you to know already? I keep wanting to learn salsa but I find classes already underway, nothing starting or just one-offs.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

they offer lessons for about an hour and then they have dancing (to a live band, I think) from 10:30 till 12:30 or something like that