So last Saturday was the Gaskell's Ball and, being 2600 miles away, I had to miss it this time around. I really haven't done much dancing since I've been out here. I've been going off and on to the SCA dance practices on campus (mosly English country: picking up sticks, milkmaids, kettle drum, jenny, sellenger's round, and the like) but I haven't had a good waltz in too long.

The ballroom dance club on campus has been teaching salsa, swing, samba, and that kind of thing, but I have yet to find a group who dances more or less what I would call 'Victorian Ballroom', polkas, Vienese waltzes, schottishes, all with abandon. I miss it all so.

Still, I'll be in town for the Christmas Gaskells, and I'm really looking forward to that. To get my fill, I'll also go to Dickens Fair the same weekend, either the day of Gaskells or the day after.

Meanwhile, maybe it's time to try expanding my activities here, and see if that subculture exists in Pittsburgh, and has just been eluding me.