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jducoeurI should stop over-thinking things, and post more. Let's get on that.
Monday was my first outing to the local Scottish Country Dance practice. I had been introduced to SCD at Pinewoods ESCape last year (where Kat was teaching a really good intro class), and it's very much up my alley -- close enough to the Renaissance stuff I do that I find most of it fairly intuitive, but different enough to be new and interesting, and really high-energy.
(But like all the modern forms, they start everything on the right foot, which has lots of little knock-on consequences. It's going to take a while for this to stop making me feel clumsy and off-balance. I'm also going to need to pull some knowledgeable people aside and get them to tutor me in stepwork -- the practice teaches choreography, but tends to assume you already have the steps and basic figures.)
Anyway, SCD practice was great: we tended to have about two dozen people on the dance floor, which is well above the level needed to sustain a lively gathering. Me being me, I wound up doing every dance despite my beginner status -- I made lots of mistakes, but mostly kept up and didn't cause any major choreographic disasters. Overall, it was the best workout I've had since at least Pinewoods, maybe longer. With any luck, keeping at this will help reduce my plague-times poundage.
Monday afternoon was also Shot #4, and Tuesday was all about dealing with the effects of that. "Dealing" mainly consisted of sitting around and trying to muster the energy to read some comic books -- it was fortunate that I got the critical work tasks done in the morning, because by about 1pm the side-effects were setting in in earnest, and by 4pm I was a feverish, exhausted lump. I'm mostly recovered now, but last night kinda sucked.
Don't get me wrong -- I'll take one day of feeling like crap over risking long covid. (Especially with Boston in the middle of a slow-motion surge that nobody seems to be paying any attention to.) But I may just have to plan for a sick day after each of these boosters.
Overall, a good start to the week. The timing was very intentional, getting dance in before the side-effects kicked in. I expect I'll probably continue to attend SCD most weeks, which means my Mondays are mostly spoken for as life continues to gear up again...