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afrikate and her awesome kitty S. are staying with us. It's really fun. I am a little bummed that they are leaving, but very happy afrikate is getting her new place!
-I now have 8 students in my class and we're past add/drop. This means I get my full salary. Awesome!
-We're doing Renaissance art this week. It's fun.
-Good thing I'm getting paid because I went to this woman's basement in Severna Park MD last week and bought two very expensive bellydance costumes.
-And then brought them to class and were told how much they did not fit properly.
-So I went back today with backup (afrikate and L. from bellydance class) and have 2 different, more expensive, costumes that I hope will be better.
-I am still undecided/ambivalent about performing in the class recital next week at Mem Sahib.
-Two weeks ago I did a 2-day Ravenchase in rural VA. It was pretty awesome. Especially visiting yogaville. That big lotus shrine out in rural Virginia. (We had to run around it looking for information to break our codes, not very yoga-like, still awesome.)
-We also spent way too much time in Farmville, VA. Yeah.
-Last weekend we went to Brooklyn to Come Out and Play.
-There were many awesome games. My favorite was one put on by the Disney imagineers called Unwritten Storybook. We were the elves (complete with ears) and had to join with other groups (royals, outlaws, etc.) to complete tasks (testing out the castle's defenses with a big ball and water balloons, "jousting" with balloons, archery with nerf weapons, etc.). After each battle or event we went back to these tables and filled in storybook pages with our own narrative (eg the elves went to the thief's forest and battled the fairies in an archery contest...) and decorated the pages with stickers and glitter! Games with art and crafts. We have a book. It was awesomely fun and they fed us a tastylunch feast afterwards. Did I mention the entire event was free. Fantastic.
-We also played:
Shabbat-put! Olympic games, Sabbath rules. (Fun, funner if I had been the fastest, lightest, or strongest of my team.)
Cross My Heart + Hope to Die A game inspired by the labyrinth of Daedalus, set in a life-size maze. (Interesting. Lots of running and confusion, would have been better if the room hadn't been so hot. The maze "walls" were hanging strips of fabric.)
It Lurks in Gowanas. Solve the canals mystery before you're whacked. (A fun mix of using microsoft tag reader, walking to different locations, and a story told through youtube videos, with a little "chose your own adventure" thrown in.)
-Sunday we played The Time Traveler's Knife Brave time travelers take man's first tentative steps into the future, but before they can see the future, they will have to iron out the knots of the past. (Incredible concept, game play could have been streamlined. I had more fun than most of my team because aside from our main mission I was a secret cyborg. I had to meet other cyborgs, and together we brought about the cyborg revolution in 1965).
-The best part of Sunday was being in Green-Wood cemetery. If you're in the area you should totally check it out. Beautiful with lots of famous people buried there as well.
-This weekend I'm going to a family reunion in West Virgina.
-The next weekend it's con.txt (yay!)
-The next weekend is Adam Lambert, although I am only going to 2 of the 3 of the east coast shows that many of my friends are attending.
-The next weekend in July 4th.
-The next weekend is the end of my summer class and mid-July. WTF.
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afrikate and her awesome kitty S. are staying with us. It's really fun. I am a little bummed that they are leaving, but very happy afrikate is getting her new place!-I now have 8 students in my class and we're past add/drop. This means I get my full salary. Awesome!
-We're doing Renaissance art this week. It's fun.
-Good thing I'm getting paid because I went to this woman's basement in Severna Park MD last week and bought two very expensive bellydance costumes.
-And then brought them to class and were told how much they did not fit properly.
-So I went back today with backup (
afrikate and L. from bellydance class) and have 2 different, more expensive, costumes that I hope will be better.-I am still undecided/ambivalent about performing in the class recital next week at Mem Sahib.
-Two weeks ago I did a 2-day Ravenchase in rural VA. It was pretty awesome. Especially visiting yogaville. That big lotus shrine out in rural Virginia. (We had to run around it looking for information to break our codes, not very yoga-like, still awesome.)
-We also spent way too much time in Farmville, VA. Yeah.
-Last weekend we went to Brooklyn to Come Out and Play.
-There were many awesome games. My favorite was one put on by the Disney imagineers called Unwritten Storybook. We were the elves (complete with ears) and had to join with other groups (royals, outlaws, etc.) to complete tasks (testing out the castle's defenses with a big ball and water balloons, "jousting" with balloons, archery with nerf weapons, etc.). After each battle or event we went back to these tables and filled in storybook pages with our own narrative (eg the elves went to the thief's forest and battled the fairies in an archery contest...) and decorated the pages with stickers and glitter! Games with art and crafts. We have a book. It was awesomely fun and they fed us a tasty
-We also played:
Shabbat-put! Olympic games, Sabbath rules. (Fun, funner if I had been the fastest, lightest, or strongest of my team.)
Cross My Heart + Hope to Die A game inspired by the labyrinth of Daedalus, set in a life-size maze. (Interesting. Lots of running and confusion, would have been better if the room hadn't been so hot. The maze "walls" were hanging strips of fabric.)
It Lurks in Gowanas. Solve the canals mystery before you're whacked. (A fun mix of using microsoft tag reader, walking to different locations, and a story told through youtube videos, with a little "chose your own adventure" thrown in.)
-Sunday we played The Time Traveler's Knife Brave time travelers take man's first tentative steps into the future, but before they can see the future, they will have to iron out the knots of the past. (Incredible concept, game play could have been streamlined. I had more fun than most of my team because aside from our main mission I was a secret cyborg. I had to meet other cyborgs, and together we brought about the cyborg revolution in 1965).
-The best part of Sunday was being in Green-Wood cemetery. If you're in the area you should totally check it out. Beautiful with lots of famous people buried there as well.
-This weekend I'm going to a family reunion in West Virgina.
-The next weekend it's con.txt (yay!)
-The next weekend is Adam Lambert, although I am only going to 2 of the 3 of the east coast shows that many of my friends are attending.
-The next weekend in July 4th.
-The next weekend is the end of my summer class and mid-July. WTF.
For You: The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute
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