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[shanmonster]

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!

Comments

Ah yes! This is the shanmonster whom we have come to know and admire!

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like your ambition is up again and you're accomplishing things. Wonderful! My, it's getting exhausting to read you again -- that's a good thing -- very inspiring.

It sounds as if you've been up to a little bit of everything. What is "mokume gane"? I also am curious about "tulle-bi-telli" -- sounds like a children's television show, heh heh. It's good to hear about your book as well. I like the picture on your web site, heh heh, very hot. That blue and white really works for you. It's very sharp. You also need a couple of pictures from the inside of your book though, so people can get a feel for how it's going to read.

As for the dancers/cheesecake gallery, I noticed the Gor book cover in there. Oh my goodness, you're going to read them, eh? Those are "interesting" books, to say the least, although they're a bit juvenile in the writing, and philosophy. John Norman is a very kinky guy, who actually believes in the theme and philosophy behind his BDSM-chauvinism-with-a-twist writings. They're pretty funny. Shockingly enough, the majority of his customers are women. For a long time, the femminist-sympathies of bookstore owners kept his stuff off the shelves, but I think he's come back recently, with a re-issue of the entire series. Don't read the first five books or so with an expectation that you've got a handle on what's going on in the series. He doesn't go "overboard" until the later books.

[fiachra.livejournal.com]

You're going to have a lot of stuff to show me when I'm up there in a week and a half. :^)