are you ready for this?

So Saturday was Dances for the Winter Moon....Keith and I cameled for Paloma...DftWM is basically a full day of 6 workshops, with vending, and a hafla/show in the evening. Azar did her fabulous "easy 9/8's" and wowed everyone (I don't think anyone sat out on this workshop!). I signed up to dance for the evening show, and as "luck" would have it, I ended up with the last spot of the evening. Now, I must express some issues here. Half of the workshop teachers had to leave, so only 3 performed in the show, and in the first half of it (23 or 24 acts, so 12/12). This is fine. My issue came with two "troupes". One group performed a trio, a duet, and at least 2 solos (not all in the same set...4 different sets, 7 minutes each)...and the other did a trio, and 2 solos, again, 7 minutes each. So nearly an hour of the show was absorbed by these two groups, who for the most part, really weren't all that and a bag of chips. So, by the time I got on stage, 60-70% of the audience had run away. :P Now, over 60 folks attended the workshop event, and there were roughly enough dance slots for half...and 6 people took up a third of them. What possesses people to do that? Like there aren't enough performance opportunities in the Bay Area, you need to take up 7-8 slots at one event with your egos? UGH!!!!

Some nice things though. These two Egyptian women (well, definitely Middle Eastern, I'm not 100% on the Egyptian but I've seen them before I think at other events schmoozing with the Egyptian vendors) came up to me afterwards and thanked me. They said that I made it worth sitting through that whole thing. I also heard something else that was a bit of boost too...so I got my warm fuzzies ;) Must be doing something right ;)

PantheaCon is this weekend. This means I have to:
-get more prints made, and prepped
-more notecards and magnets made
-new business cards printed up
-get W3 stuff tonight and put it all on hangers, ready to go
-choose music and outline my workshop
-get music sorted out for La Luna Rouge on Friday night.
-pick out costuming for everything
-try not to go bonkers.

Bonkers, here I come.

i should know better..

So with Khris, anything meat-based makes her stomach violently upset...meaning if there's a tiny piece of ham in the clam chowder, she'll be ill (but I'm not sure how much of it is mental, and how much physical).

I have the opposite problem apparently. Back in Providence, a few years back, Keith and I decided to go all healthy, and we got food from Bread and Circus (right?), including like organic-all-natural pork chops...which made our tummies VERY unhappy.

Well today, Khris (and me in tow) got sucked into Whole Foods. It's lunch time, and we love food, so we get food there. I went for the potato and cheese soup. Well, in theory, this is good, but it was like organic potato and cheese soup. And it's been kicking my arse since then.

Bleh :P

other tidbits

Some other fun stuff I forgot to write about:

-I got my hair cut yesterday. Well, it needed a trim...and Keith made me look at the design books. I like the somewhat layered "long bangs" up front, so I had the girl trim it a bit more up front, but I can still pull it back totally for work. Yeah, so I'm actually a functionally minded person.

-I went shopping in the men's department at JCP. Keith's mum bought him a pair of pants from there for Xmas that were overpriced and undersized, so we finally made it over there to return them. For the regular price of one pair of pants, we managed to get over $300 worth of clothing on sale...and while looking for clothes for Keith, I saw these shirts in the young men's department...perfect for work :) Let's face it...no women's apparel department has REAL work clothes for women. If I want a durable shirt for physical work, I have to go to the guys' dept. No biggie, been wearing my brothers' and then Keith's stuff for years. Yeap, always will be a tomboy ;)

-I also got a new bedlah set on Saturday from Dhyanis. It's based on the art of Gustav Klimt. It is colorful, and makes me think of tupelo's book where there's the big sale at Sherezade's house, and the dialogue over the "colorful" set....not a direct quote, but the gist: "my gawd, that's so tacky!" "oh definitely, just gaudy!""so you buying it?" "yeap." "damn." -pix soon.

ugh...

add to the attack of the organic soup, it's the 28th Tuesday...bleh, I forgot..

my PantheaCon to-do list is frightening. I need to get to Wolf, Kinko's, and somehow get my artwork that's up in San Francisco at Faith so I can have some larger pieces to showcase. Maybe I can figure out something on that Friday with Elka to get them, since we'll be up there for La Luna Rouge. I work from 10-6 tomorrow and 1-9 on Thursday. I have to hang clothes, frame artwork, inventory and make cards and magnets, outline my workshop, choose music for workshop...the site schedule doesn't reflect a change for that, but I know everyone's got to be as busy as hell, so as long as it's all good, then yeah. and I got to make flyers promoting the workshop. *pant*pant*

I think I'm going to do the Peacock costume for LLR. It's glamour-gothy. Have most of the music chosen, will get that set with Keith tomorrow night. Think it's going be a pretty cool (and exhausting) evening...and I'm out of my mind, but hey :)

And tomorrow I'm supposed to do the window design at work....

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