'Cause This is THRILLER!

[ladysprite]

Apparently the antidote - for me, at least - for blue moods, mopiness, and the bad-weather doldrums is suddenly needing to learn choreography.

Or maybe it's just the fact that it's impossible to be grumpy and bitter when you've spent the past hour watching the video for 'Thriller' over and over and over again, ten seconds at a time, while alternating between mimicking the steps and trying to jot them down while figuring out how to describe them in a way that you'll recognize and remember, ending up with a sheet of paper covered in passages like:

Claw, claw, shimmy x 4 repeat
Zombie arms - step x3, turn, turn, repeat
Jump, windmill arms, flop and up, flop and up
Groove x 2, turn - repeat
Reach, windmill, air guitar
Stupid hip bob x 4, holla x 4, kung fu x 4
Shamble in a half circle x 8, shamble forward x 10

Not exactly my usual notation, but it works. And, dork-tastic as it is, it's just silly enough to cut through any bad mood. It's like penguins that way.....

Comments

[denimskater.livejournal.com]

Alas, they are not mine, they are my ex-wife's. I'm one of the irritating people whose notes consist of a few cryptic lines like "Eigenvalue may be useful in relating 2D and 3D bounding dimensions, investigate" and other things only tangentially related to the course.

Interesting set of LJ friends we have in common.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

I understand this - my notes are an excellent record of what I was thinking in class, but that is all.