Weird week

Yeah... lots of weird stuff going on this week.  For some odd reason I'm taking ballroom dancing classes... well, it's because that's what the dance this Friday is going to involve, but I'm not even sure if I really want to go to that at this point.  But anyway, the classes themselves... I'm struggling with them pretty bad, since I can't really dance all that well and they rush through stuff so quickly that I barely have time to get a grasp of the basic stuff before they're already on to some other thing (or two or three other things.)  Monday's class was awful, I pretty much got completely left out after the first couple of things and ended up standing there on the side of the room with absolutely nothing to do for half an hour or more.  They pretty much gave us 3 seconds to rush across the room and ask a girl to dance, and since there were more guys than girls (one more guy than there were girls, to be specific) and it takes me a lot more than 3 seconds to ask a girl to dance even when I'm not being forced to as part of a class... I was always the guy who got left out.  Today's class was a lot better though.  There were actually more girls than guys this time (...a lot more, actually...), and I at least sort of managed to learn how to do the dance they were doing today (the cha-cha, I think)... well, the first two parts of it we covered, anyway.  I completely missed the rest, since it took me until the end of the class just to get the first part down pretty well and start to figure out the second.  I was planning on not coming back again if today's class was anywhere near as bad as the first one, but since it turned out so much better I think I might actually continue to go to these (and then the dance... maybe.)

Speaking of the dance, I'm starting to wonder if it's really a good idea  to actually ask someone to go to it with me.  I mean, when I didn't know what exactly it was going to be and thought it was just going to be a pretty much normal dance that seemed like a good idea, but... with the whole dance card thing and the fact that all the dancing will be this ballroom stuff that I really don't know how to do very well, I'm thinking that trying to actually go to the dance with someone wouldn't end very well.  The dance card thing seems really weird... the whole idea of having to pretty much decide who you're going to dance with before you actually start dancing at all is just strange, and I'm not sure how that would work with the idea of going to a dance with someone... would you just go ahead and sign your name on every slot of that person's card, or what? Plus, since I pretty much suck at dancing I figure that if I did go with someone, she wouldn't want to dance with nobody but me the whole time.
Maybe I'll try to just ask her out on a date for this Saturday instead, or something like that.  Or we could go on an actual date before the dance, rather than just going to the dance and nothing else, since it doesn't even start until 9:00.  I'm not really sure.

Completely unrelated, I've fallen behind a bit on my Iliad reading for Classics of Western Literature... I'm almost done with the assigned reading for Monday, but it's almost Wednesday.  Ugh.  Also haven't even started my drawing assignment, and I need to get at least a partial drawing done before class tomorrow... I guess I'll be able to do that, though I definitely won't have it finished before then.  Of course, I'll probably have pretty much the whole weekend to work on that, knowing my luck when it comes to actually trying to ask girls on dates recently...

Also, a random funny quote from... well, not lunch exactly, just sitting in Jonzzey's talking to people earlier today once I got out of my classes.

Me: I don't think you've ever been mean to me.
Rachael: You're a dick.

...she actually wasn't talking to me; that response was to something one of the other guys around had said a few seconds before I said anything (in response to her talking about how she's apparently been really mean to people in the past and is trying to be nicer.)  But the timing of it just ended up really funny. XD