So I just came from ballroom dance class #1 of the semester. There were a whole lot of people there. Not unexpectedly, there were many more girls than there were guys, so, since I’ve done some ballroom before and vaguely know what I’m doing (at least compared to people who’ve never done it before) I ended up going through a gender identity crisis and being a guy for the duration of the class. Fun times.

But anyways…I was thinking. Maybe I should redefine this goal. I say this because I realized dancing “well” is completely relative. I dance well compared to my boyfriend (not that I love him any less for it), but compared to Kate, who’s won ballroom competitions, or to the rest of the competition ballroom team, I do not dance well at all. I’m sure I dance well enough that I could impress many of my friends back home. Stick me in a room full of people who really know what they’re doing, however…you get the picture. It also depends on who I’m dancing with – I consider myself a pretty good follower, so if I know the basic step to whatever dance and my partner knows what he’s doing, I can get by all right.

Anyways, the point being, I might redefine this goal, because as it stands, I don’t know at what point I would consider myself a good enough dancer to mark this complete. I’m not planning on joining the competition team, so I won’t be getting the extra lessons that make the people on the comp team look so damn good, so I really shouldn’t compare myself to them…but I can’t help it. I think part of “accomplishing” this goal is that I would really like to learn to dance well with a partner, specifically, my boyfriend, but I haven’t come up with a good enough bribe to get him to take more lessons with me. I dunno. Point of this whole rant being, this goal may be rewritten in the near future.