what I should do when I grow up aka job meme

From firefly_124 :

1. Go here.
2. Put in the following - Username: nycareers, Password: landmark
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top ten results.

1. Makeup Artist
2. Costume Designer
3. Set Designer
4. Anthropologist
5. Special Effects Technician
6. Sport Psychology Consultant
7. Industrial Designer
8. Historian
9. Actor
10. Tilesetter

Apparently I should have stayed in grad school.  Oh well.  It's funny though, in a way I do most of these things through belly dance.  Make up artist:  check.  Costume designer:  you betcha!  Set designer:  well, I try to pick nice theatres for my shows.  If I had a venue all at my disposal I'd be creating sets for it.  Anthropologist:  pretty obviously.  Special Effects Technician:  well... sort of, in an overlapping with costume design kind of way.  I think the career guide meant old school move little models around and rig explosives kind of technician, not CGI programmer.  Sport Psychology Consultant:  I do that for myself all the time.  Industrial Designer:  no, don't think I can make that one fit, unless you include writing choreographies to Neubauten.  Historian:  see anthropologist.  Actor:  most certainly, good dancing involves a lot of the same principles as good acting.  Tilesetter:  ok, that one doesn't work at all.  But I make mosaics on occasion!

Food for thought, I guess.  Maybe I should be a makeup artist and go work at MAC.  Or maybe I should go to tilesetting school.  That would be hell on my nails, though.

Still no functioning email at home.  The problem isn't Norton Antivirus, or any of the other pop up blockers I could find in my system defaults.  I'm starting to give up.  If I hadn't just printed 500 business cards with my email address on them, I'd switch over to gmail.  What I need, I think, is an email program that will leave mail on the server so that I can view it from multiple locations.  I wonder how that would affect my folders, though.  Sigh.

Raks Spooki II, Nov. 18

I think most anybody who reads my LJ who might respond to this call for dancers/vendors is also on Tribe where I've already posted this, but just in case (and so the rest of you can mark your calendars in anticipation of a call for spectators ;-) ...

OK, it's official now! Raks Spooki II, the second annual fall celebration of New England's gothic belly dance community, is happening on Sunday, November 18, 2007 from 3:30-6:30pm, at the Regent Underground Theatre in Arlington, MA. Dance slots will fill up very quickly, so please let me know asap if you are interested in performing. Strict time limit of 6 minutes per slot. Additionally, I have space for vendors. The vending fee this time around will be $35 as the theatre has raised its rental fee. Those spots will also fill quickly! Message me through Tribe if interested in performing or vending, or email me at badriya at rcn dot com.

I'm pleased to say that the hafli will be a benefit for Women for Women, www.womenforwomen.org/ , a non-profit which helps women in war-torn regions of the world get back on their feet and start rebuilding their lives. Currently, they are focused on Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Kosovo, Rwanda, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some of these are places where our dance movements, costuming and jewelry come from. Using what women of the Middle East have given us, we can make real differences in the lives of other women. We can use our freedoms to help them gain their own freedom from war, poverty and injustice.

Details on the event's workshop are still being ironed out, but will be forthcoming soon!