Another day. A better day.

Or... at least I hope so.

Last night was lovely. Saw the graceful Ms. Jezebel and we continued with classes - always a pleasure. A long pleasure this time - we went on for 2 hours! We always manage to chatter about life and stuff - but that makes it fun, and I think we both need more of that sort of fun in our lives... so I shall not fret that I'm not as serious as Aparna. I think we sneak in the same amount of learning in, we just have 1-1.5 hours of learning and half an hour talking mixed in.

Got myself up to Chinatown for late dinner. Slacked off and didn't do homework reading. I really have to do that. Came home and got to bed early.

Tonight I plan to:
- review Frosty choreography for December at Axis
- work on Let it Snow - goal: collect all garments and props, develop an outline
- read at least 10 pages of homework text
- run through movements for Medicine Wheel to load them into RAM. :) Yeah, I've been doing too much O.S. studying.
And get a nice, veggie-riffic dinner - probably dinner + book reading.

What a lovely combo. Wish my left knee wasn't sore - I think this might be a monthly cycle...

I'm awfully tired. Not sure why. Could be a variety of reasons - like the fact that I burned the candle at both ends through October, and am still paying back the rain checks I wrote to my body. Or that I really didn't sleep so well at my dad's. Or that I'm just slumpy and depressed, and sleeping is more attractive than being awake. I'm keeping my eye on that little possibility...

Bed was WAY too seductive. Must get workout going again - eating right just isn't enough.

Purity test - 27%

Goodness I haven't taken one of these in ages...

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dreda is a bad book influence.

After chatting on her blog, I decided to go book shopping. It is a bad thing... access to amazon.com and a credit card. $40 later...

The Tale of Genji [Paperback] by Shikibu, Murasaki; Seidensticker, Edward G. [Paperback]
By: Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker

Translation of an 11th century Japanese novel

The Gnostic Gospels (Vintage) [Paperback]
By: Elaine Pagels (Author)

The text that started this... after reading her selections, I decided to give gnoticism another poke, since I hadn't thought about it in 10 years... and this text seemed immensely readable.


The Tale of Murasaki : A Novel [Paperback]
By: Liza Dalby

She wrote "Geisha" a book I particularly enjoyed, based on her anthropological research on Geisha in Japan. This is actually a novel about the author of Tale of Genji, above. Yep, those book pimps hooked with the "people who bought... also bought..." shtick. Damn them. :)

Tribal Fusion - Yoga Isolations & Drills for Bellydance [DVD]
By: Rachel Brice

OoooOOOoo... She came and taught here this summer, but life commitments were such I did not go. But this was exactly the topic of her workshop... maybe I can pick up some of what I missed. Needless to say this is right up my alley!


It is a very wierd wishlist I must say, that includes books on:
- networks and digital security
- Japanese Geisha stuff
- Indian philosophy
- Asian new age music
- Western yoga stuff
- vegan cookbooks (even though I'm so totally an omnivore)
and now... a whole bunch of gnosticism and various Christian writings...

An interesting study on what I've bought on Amazon in recent years. My textile book purchases have fallen off the map - as I buy those through abebooks. And (thank god) the goofy Dover clip art books finally fell by the wayside.

The really odd thing is to see a book on Cryptography listed right on top of a book on spirituality by a medieval female author, right above the Masala Art Bhangra DVD part I. Gives me a giggle.

Better yet, the last package from the post office was a pink PVC microskirt and pink ruffly satin bra. Whee.

phtpth-ewy

Blech. 8 pages of customer comments have now been extended to 12 pages of comments + responses. That's the first pass - got about 80% of the comments. Tomorrow I will deal with the ones that trigger my "be diplomatic, investigate diligently" button.

Oy. Need something tasty for dinner to get the unpleasant flavor of careful maneuvering and ego-free responses out of system.