Dear Diary,
Spent the day at the folklife festival. Saw what was described in the program as "in your face accordian music." It wasn't bad. Not how i expected to spend my day, and it only got better when i tried English country dancing and Contra dancing. It would have been much better if I was wearing a hoop skirt and knew what the hell i was doing. And had a nice young english country man to dance with me. But those are just details. The important part is, I expanded my horizons. Then i got cornered by this very forward woman who wanted me to come every third friday of the month to english country dance in the north end of seattle. I told her i would consider it. It was a bit awkward. How do you break it to someone that you don't think, although fun, english country dancing isn't your scene?
There were a ton of these irish dancing 10 year olds at folklife today who were amazing. Made me feel like I've been wasting my time all these years. I don't have any amazing skills like these girls do at such a tender age. I think i need a new quirky hobby. like quilting or tai chi. or maybe i could just get a website and use it to talk about things that i should be doing.
Love,
Diana