Marnen Laibow-Koser's Journal

Went to Pokingbrook Morris rehearsal last night. They're a team (actually, two single-sex teams) that I've thought highly of for a while, so now that I'll be living in Albany soon I thought it was time to join.

And it was just wonderful to be on a morris team again -- let alone a well-organized one, and a single-sex one at that! It gets better: they actually have enough musicians that I get to dance as well, which was not really true of my last team. They put me through my paces on some Ducklington stuff and a really cool Border-style stick dance (I did get to play a little as well). I could barely walk after 2 hours (concrete floor!), but it's good to be doing morris again after something like 5 years off. Had the time of my life; looking forward to more.

And they rehearse in the same room where I'd already been once for Cantus Concordiae.

I'm writing this entry with Dasher, an extremely cool assistive text-entry program. You sort of fly through the alphabet in the direction of the letters you want, kind of like a videogame. And it's predictive (like your phone's SMS entry system, only better): letters that are more probable get bigger areas to fly into, so they're easier to hit. Check it out -- it's a free download, and there's even a Java demo on the website!

In other news, now that the semester is over, I'm looking for a job so I can join collwen in Albany. Anyone got any leads on Web-development or music jobs in the Capital District?