lazy Tuesday
Oct. 30th, 2007 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonI'm not ready for my mini vacation to be over, but I guess all good things must come to an end. It's been a good mix of socializing, dance time and husband time--parties on Friday and Saturday, performance on Sunday, anniversary on Monday, and pretty much winding down today, with dance class tonight. We went to Ole Mexican Grill for our anniversary and had many yummy things. I was glad to find that they had the almond-flavored tequila back on the shelf again. I'm not a big tequila person (mostly because my tequila experience has generally been with bad tequila) but I love that stuff. I will never, ever buy a bottle of it.
Sunday's show went great, I thought. The Arab guys in the back went *crazy* for the Saad donkey song, singing along and dancing. For the rest of the night they called me Ya Hmara, which under any other circumstance I'm sure would be not at all complimentary, but I think in this case was a joking compliment. Either that, or I dance like a donkey myself. But no doubt they liked the music this time around! A local teacher who was also performing that night told me that some of her students saw me the last time I performed (to my heavy classical set) and came to the next class talking all about how much they loved my dancing, so that felt very nice, especially since it was the same show where a guy was a jerk about my music choice. It was very good of her to tell me about that and I thanked her for it. Boston does sometimes have its little scene issues but I think at heart we do really all look out for each other. Certainly no costumes get cut up at our contests!*
*true horror story from bhuz, a belly dance discussion board--a dancer left her costume unattended for a few moments in a dressing room during a contest, and came back to find a hole cut into it and a pair of scissors lying along side. Absolutely horrible! I believe this was in San Diego. At every contest I've been involved with here, all of us dancers have helped each other and given each other tons of support and encouragement. I hope we can keep that feel as the contest trend continues to build.
Had to spend part of my wedding anniversary day redesigning flyers for Raks Spooki because technology hates me, but I like the new ones better than the old ones so in the end I win. Time to go pick them up!
Sunday's show went great, I thought. The Arab guys in the back went *crazy* for the Saad donkey song, singing along and dancing. For the rest of the night they called me Ya Hmara, which under any other circumstance I'm sure would be not at all complimentary, but I think in this case was a joking compliment. Either that, or I dance like a donkey myself. But no doubt they liked the music this time around! A local teacher who was also performing that night told me that some of her students saw me the last time I performed (to my heavy classical set) and came to the next class talking all about how much they loved my dancing, so that felt very nice, especially since it was the same show where a guy was a jerk about my music choice. It was very good of her to tell me about that and I thanked her for it. Boston does sometimes have its little scene issues but I think at heart we do really all look out for each other. Certainly no costumes get cut up at our contests!*
*true horror story from bhuz, a belly dance discussion board--a dancer left her costume unattended for a few moments in a dressing room during a contest, and came back to find a hole cut into it and a pair of scissors lying along side. Absolutely horrible! I believe this was in San Diego. At every contest I've been involved with here, all of us dancers have helped each other and given each other tons of support and encouragement. I hope we can keep that feel as the contest trend continues to build.
Had to spend part of my wedding anniversary day redesigning flyers for Raks Spooki because technology hates me, but I like the new ones better than the old ones so in the end I win. Time to go pick them up!
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Date: 2007-10-30 08:39 pm (UTC)There was that time that Phoenix had a belt she was selling stolen. There was also that time I had ~$50 stolen at the Dance Complex while at a charity hafli...of course, that was a community locker room, and it could have been someone not associated with the belly dance thing, too.
But yes, most of the dancers I've met and talked to in our local community are really supportive and not terribly competitive. Or maybe I'm just not a threat. ;)
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