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This is a continuation of the previous entry but I like the wonderful computer advice of “save often”.

Anyway today we had a half hour Viennese Waltz class. After a migraine I’m usually dazed and dizzy for a day. Spinning around for half an hour didn’t help. But we’re getting quite good now. If the judges see the first thirty seconds of us dancing we’ll be fine. After that we’re just too tired.

It is now 15 nights between now and the time and I see Julia again. Just over two weeks. Should be enough time for her present to arrive even if it is delayed… which I think it might be. Shame I completely failed to keep it secret from her.

I’ve also been thinking about the London Ball in relation to Julia. But I can’t articulate the thoughts so I’ll leave it there.

My hands are cold and it’s making typing hard.

I was walking with Sherwin and some Hong Kong Chinese girl from the beginner’s class today. I think her name was Theresa but I can’t be sure. Anyway I mentioned Julia to her (mainly because it was snowing really heavy. It wasn’t settling though (it has actually been snowing on and off for about four days now - no hint of it on the floor in London)) and she said she used to have a boyfriend in England but it didn’t work out. She then went on to add unexpected detail that caught me completely by surprise.

Which brings me neatly on to another point. I tend to judge people’s intelligence on their language ability. With a native language this works reasonably well. But there are so many people I know now who don’t have English as their first language it doesn’t work. But it doesn’t stop me being surprised when people are smarter than they sound.

This stupid spell checker keeps finding don’t and haven’t incorrect. I call it stupid because compared to the clever things that some people do with text and language processing, a spell checker is really simple. I bet it doesn’t even learn…