Lookit

Ouch. I woke up with a pounding headache, but it seems to be dissipating. I was very productive, yesterday. I made a new and improved T-clasp for my bracelet, nearly obliterated my brooch, made a sizeable sheet of mokume gane, patinated copper with cupric nitrate, made a huge pectoral with the coloured copper, and salvaged and completed my brooch. Today, I need to do a rendering of a pendant in watercolours, then finish my research for the tulle-bi-telli slide show I'll be giving. I also want to get to the gym for a good, solid workout.

In other news, it looks like I finally found a place to teach my dance classes! It's not perfect. There are no mirrors, it costs me a bit more than the last place, and it has a carpetted floor, but I think it will do. I just want to check in on a couple of other places, first, to see if they're any better. Also, I will be teaching dance at the university again starting this Thursday. No, that's not me in the picture. Neither is it an accurate description of my classes, but I'm not responsible for their page content. I've had quite a few men ask if I'll teach them, and the answer is yes! I gladly teach guys.

And in somewhat related news, I have plunked a bunch of new images in the Belly Dancers and Harem Girls Cheesecake/Historical Gallery. Go see! And, my dance costuming books have made it back from the printers. Hoorah!

Witch Itch

Ouch redux. Look at this guestbook entry, referencing The Witching Hours, courtesy of Jessica D.:

I really did help with my homework and I will tell all my friends to go on this website for homework, but the site could have less words and more pictures so I could have more pictures for my homework and it would be easier to read and learn. Its a fab site for History on any topic!!!!!!!!!

Why does literacy present such an enormous challenge to this girl, and others like her? It's very sad.

And then we get Brianna M. saying

Yes, I find this very interesting after reading the torture section and can almost hear the painful agonizing cries of my ancestors with the crowd screaming burn the witch burn the witch... that we (witches) are the evil ones, yet have you ever heard a witch screaming burn the christian burn the christian?

Christian martyrs, anyone? Ok, so the ones burning the early Christians weren't witches, per se, but neither were the folks killed as such during the great witch hunts. Besides, the torturers of the early Christ cultists certainly fit the pagan demographic. Ah well.