I'm going to be scooting home from Kalamazoo very quickly this year to do a couple of things at the Steampunk World's Fair this weekend. My schedule:
Friday, Embassy Suites Ballroom, 8:00-9:00: Victorian Dance Lesson
Friday, Embassy Suites Ballroom, 9:00-10:00: Victorian Ballroom Dancing
Saturday, Embassy Suites Ballroom, 2:30-3:30: Victorian Dance Etiquette
Yes, there's sort of a theme here.
For the etiquette class I'll discuss ballroom manners and dance cards and teach people how to bow or curtsy in proper Victorian style.
I'll be around at the Fair in between these and into Saturday evening, but probably will go home that night since I have a million things to do to get ready for Balticon (Steampunk Ball! Hoopdance! Martian Croquet!) I'm hoping to see/hear Professor Elemental perform, but otherwise I have no special plans except enjoying myself. I will probably be underdressed relative to everyone else.
As usual, I'd love to say hi to any Rixo readers; catch me at the end of one of my sessions for best results.
I'm bummed that, when I went to the Bay Area, a few weks ago, I had to return home on the very weekend of a steampunk event being held there.
Posted by: Serge | May 13, 2010 at 02:43 AM
Lots of steampunk events!
Posted by: Marilee J. Layman | May 13, 2010 at 05:27 PM
I was telling someone I met online who a) liked dancing and b) was going to SWF that he should go to the Friday night ball!
But now he's not going. But hey, he's coming to World Steam Expo just down the street from me instead, so I'll get to meet him :)
Alas, no awesome Susan-led ball there. Instead, it's having a very pricey charity ball, and the charity is a Christian school. I'm balking at that one on many, many levels.
Posted by: Nikki Raiford | May 13, 2010 at 09:34 PM
Nikki, that would bother me, too. I will, however, go to a Boy Scout dinner tomorrow and have donated auction items. His parents are good friends of mine and most of our bookgroup will be going. I figure he'll be too old to be a Boy Scout pretty soon.
Posted by: Marilee J. Layman | May 14, 2010 at 05:34 PM
Marilee... I've been told that grownup Boy Scouts become Marines.
Posted by: Serge | May 14, 2010 at 09:54 PM
Nikki: Um, yeah. Ewww.
The dancing went well, the etiquette talk went well. Now I am just hanging out taking pictures of random people and writing a ticked-off blog post.
Posted by: Susan de Guardiola | May 15, 2010 at 04:25 PM
LOL Serge! I doubt this one will. I didn't go to the dinner after all, I'm still having too much trouble eating and I don't want to be like that there.
Posted by: Marilee J. Layman | May 15, 2010 at 09:19 PM
...it's gone very quiet around here.
Posted by: Paul A. | May 26, 2010 at 01:21 PM
Paul A... Way too quiet. Maybe we should start rearranging the furniture.
Posted by: Serge | May 26, 2010 at 04:22 PM
Sorry. I've been enormously depressed, which exacerbates my tendency to write a draft of a post and then sit and stare at it. I'll try to polish them and release them into the wild soon, like BP cleaning pelicans.
Posted by: Susan de Guardiola | May 27, 2010 at 02:23 PM
Susan... Don't forget that le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. That being said, I wish you a much deserved good time at Balticon.
Posted by: Serge | May 27, 2010 at 10:39 PM
And some of the quietness is due to us being, um, quiet.
(I often find myself telling students that perfect is the enemy of good. Also that practice makes perfect. And that analysis preceds action; analysis perfects action. Coherent and consistent I am not)
Posted by: Neil W | May 30, 2010 at 04:10 PM
Neil W... Which means that practice is the enemy of good too? Reminds me of the time I pointed out that a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, before asking if the stone would kill the two birds in the bush with one blow.
Posted by: Serge | May 31, 2010 at 01:56 PM
I recently came across a historical TV mystery series the first episode of which was almost steampunk. I talk about it here.
Posted by: Serge | June 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM