Skiing and Swing

Nothing too interesting to report. Swing dancing lessons continued last Thursday. We practiced our Swing Out (which is the basic and most important step in Swing dancing) and learned a few variations on it. Our teacher (Dan Amores) is really good at looking at the details of each step and making them as good as they can be. He says the swing out 'takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to perfect', hence taking the time to really teach it to us perfectly. Now we just have to actually go out and practice our new-found skills. Even if it's just turning on a CD at her house and practicing there! ___ also needs to learn the swivel that girls are supposed to do. But I think she'll probably learn that eventually during the lessons.

Tonight we are going skiing at Blue Mountain with a friend from work (who owns the car). I hope the snow is good! It would have been a perfect day to go day-skiing, however I have a season's pass that only works at night. That means that if it's a bit too warm during the day, then the snow will melt slightly and then harden as it gets to night time. This kinda sucks. For this reason ___ was hesitant to actually go with us. Being from Vancouver, she's pretty used to having really nice conditions and doesn't see the point in going and renting equipment and stuff when the snow is going to be crap!

In other news, the Canadian federal election is tomorrow. I was reading the party platforms in the paper, and I realize that I really like the Green party more than any of the other ones. Too bad that they have no chance in hell of winning in my riding, otherwise I'd vote for them. And then I listened to a debate in Oshawa on the radio, and there too, the Green party guy made the most sense. Maybe once proportional representation actually exists in this country I will vote for them.

In my riding it's a tight battle between the NDPs Olivia Chow, and the Liberal's Tony Ianno. I won't tell you who I'm voting for though, except it's not the conservative party.

Anyway, sorry for the relatively boring post. Nothing funny has happened to me recently, that I can recall. Actually wait there was something pretty funny. I was getting my hair cut at Hart House, and there was an old guy there too, who was chatting with his hairdresser dude about politics. That guy had some funny things to say, for example, he thinks that Harper has an advantage because 'he's a smooth talker and is good looking'! hahaha...Harper looks like a lizard! And then he said it's hard to argue with a woman, which I think related to politics in that some of the parties are pushing for more women in the house of commons to bring back some sanity. He also thinks that Canada will greatly benefit from global warming, in terms of crop growing times and economics! Apparently we should all drive SUVs and warm the globe as much as possible. It will be good for our country! Stand up for Canada and make as much CO2 as possible! It's amazing what people say some times. And the poor barber has to just agree with everything he says!