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My lungs are mad at me today for staying up all night dancing and talking, but my sense of sociability is happy--it was very nice to relax and see a bunch of people, and even chat with a few new people.  Parties with dancing make me happy.  I think it was even good for my sore muscles to have a bit of a workout, because my body feels much better today.  I'm dancing at the Middle East at 10:40 tonight, I'll be the one coughing up a lung on everybody's hummus*.  I did run through my routine today and was happy enough with it the first time that I decided to leave well enough alone and not wear myself out with practice.  I'm being all glamorous tonight in a mermaid skirt, silver bedleh and high heels, yay.  Wonder if there will be much of a crowd tonight; I can see it going either way at the end of Thanksgiving weekend.

*generally before I perform I watch a couple of dvds featuring the kind of performance I am aiming for that evening.  On Aisha Ali's documentary about Egyptian dance, there's a scene with a dancer at a wedding--the dancer keeps pulling a tissue out of her bra to blow her nose. That's the one I should watch tonight...

Time to iron my veil (not sure why I bother since it will get wrinkled on the way there, but at least I'll feel like the wrinkles aren't my fault), wash my hair, eat, pack my bag, put on makeup--it's time to put on makeup!  Whee!!!