melodrama

[sourpatchhobbit]

amazing Cuban Jazz band came to Antioch COLLEGE but Antioch was too sad because it was announced by the Antioch UNIVERSITY stooge that is our president today that we will close that no one will dance. but they wanted us to dance. The friends I sat with sat us in the front row far to the right, right in front of the speakers, which I'm sure, when I

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[torturetorturer]

about the Cuban jazz band wanting you to dance: it's just culture. They weren't intending it to pressure and be mean, it's just that they expect people to dance-it's just want happens with that kind of music and it must seem strange to them that no one was dancing, so they try and encourage people to dance. it happens to me all the time and not even with dancing-men who have been brought up a certain way (Caribbean culture) expect certain things to be done-I'm positive it wasn't meant to be sexually inappropriate at all.

[gregorygirl]

just btw, the guy asking us to dance wasn't cuban, he was canadian.

[sourpatchhobbit]

yeah, as loftin says, he was canadian. it was a bit ... how you say... I don't know, a lot of the antioch kids were talking about this durring intermition, about how the two people who head the band are a married Canadian couple and the other members of the band are Cuban. And I did feel really bad, they were obviously put off by no one dancing, but no one was in the mood to dance until the end. I mean I was in the front row and the drummer was doing the elbow in the ribs motion, of 'eh, eh, I can tell you wanna' at me when he saw me dancing in my chair, and that felt fine, but that was as much dancing as I wanted to do. It was just bad timing. The music was what we needed to feel better, but... it couldn't do away with what we were feeling. It was the guy like holding out his hand and gesturing and calling to us specificly, well, and to other people specifically too, that didn't feel comfortable, especially because he wanted me to come on stage and dance. I'll go on stage and act or talk, but not dance, no effin' way.

[gregorygirl]

I'm sad things are sad for you, and i'm sad you didn't get to have any of the soup, which was delicious and full of iron. Because iron fixes everything, even melodrama.
Everything's gonna be okay.

[sourpatchhobbit]

thanks darling.
Iron is good. So are visits to bush stadium. hehehehe. did I make you squirm? mine is an eeeeeevil smile.

[gregorygirl]

visits to bush stadium OR sharing of banana flowers, depending on what floats your boat. and, even though heterosexuality isn't real, some people might want to take their banana flower TO bush stadium...but that's just gross.

[sourpatchhobbit]

: D

[goldelfwitch]

So thats it, huh? What do you think you will do now? I´m sorry you have been having drama, I know how you feel. Email me when you want to talk.

[sourpatchhobbit]

I'll try and drop a line soon. I feel very talked out about these things at the moment, but after talking to dear Dr. Grossberg, my adviser, and maybe, hopefully (?), the boy I'll have more to say. I talked to the friend for several hours yesterday though, and that was very good. I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye, I see her point as clearly as I think an outsider to who she is can see it, but either I can't articulate my point well enough, or she just doesn't want to see my point, which hurts. We're not at 100% and I don't think we'll ever be again, but we're looking at each other again, and having fun with each other again.

[goldelfwitch]

I completely understand. I am glad you are working things out, and when you do feel like spilling, you know where to find me. Love you!

[neonophelia]

Yeesh! I'm so sorry.. communication is really hard and I hope you're able to work stuff out without loss of limbs and major heart-ache!

[sourpatchhobbit]

'sokay, the biggest part of this is the friend thing and we talked yesterday for several hours, and things are a lot better now. I still hope to talk to the boy and Antioch... who knows... thanks for the support!