Just doing a little bit of cross-posting for those of you who aren't reading my Vox. (As a reminder, you can add it to your friends list, parapluie_vox.) I do have invites again, if anybody else wants one.

My first belly dance solo (video), from my class recital on Saturday. My father goofed with the recording, so the entire first half where I use the veil ( Read more... )

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( Pictures Accumulated In March )

"I’m not sure how many of you are like I am…distressed over how our society has forgotten the “reason for the season”. Target has been approached, like several other stores, to again include “Christmas” in their advertising. They refuse to even respond. [...] I plan to boycott Target for Christmas purchases this year. After all, I’m shopping ( Read more... )

This week had some absurd highlights. All in one day, I belly danced in class, a professor excused a student to go to the dining hall to buy oranges to settle a debate about their interior and I pushed a cart of life-size, scary, old men portraits up a hill in a manner that made it appear to be moving by itself, and very quickly at that. Today, I ( Read more... )

All of your mothers pale by comparison in their abilities to bring joy into your life 3000 miles from home because, I am fairly confident to say, none of you have ever received a blue lightsaber in a care package before.

Oh yes, four months after the fact, my mother has continued The Lightsaber Quest, and not only did she find the object which we ( Read more... )

NickAndBelle: Yo !! How is the Japanese going?.
NickAndBelle: Go to bed. Mind your Papa ( Read more... )

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( Camping 2.0 )

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