Bellydancing at Tantra, August 09
Cairo on the Coast, my dance troupe, did our usual gig with Mei’attah Raqs at Tantra Tapas & Sushi last night. The crowd was huge and enthusiastic, so thanks to everyone for making it a great evening! And I finally had my new green costume all put together!
I was super tired because I worked a morning shift that day and took a nap between work and bellydancing- when I woke up to my alarm, I was extremely disoriented and thought I was in highschool and had to get up, put on a uniform, and go to class. I was very upset until I remembered that I’m not a high schooler, I’m a bellydancer.
As usual, there was a token drunk lady running around. She danced by herself between our sets of dances. She was pretty into it. Unfortunately she didn’t do anything hilarious like the last drunk lady who poured a drink on her head and then went and barfed on the huge glass windows of the super expensive restaurant next door, but drunk dancing is pretty good anyway. She tried to dance with Nicole during one song and was promptly escorted off the stage by a waitress. I must say, though- apart from whoever the drunk lady is on any particular night, Tantra is a pretty classy place.
My friends and I have a tentative plan to have an art show this fall featuring belly dance art and the local troupes. It will mainly be a collection of our own work- but we will probably also have a call for entries as well. So if anyone has any belly dance art or ideas, start getting them together 
Back Home
Well, it certainly has been an ordeal to come back home and find the AC is completely broken. Thank God for window AC units! I couldn’t get anything done for several days due to the unbearable Savannah summer heat, but I gave in and bought one, because its going to take a long time for the central air to be repaired. Its expensive.
- Radiating Glory and Emitting Cool Air
On a happier, more adorable note, I have brought this fuzzy thing home with me:
- Meet Figwit
Figwit is my cat from Atlanta. She is very small and adorable and has the sharpest little claws that she never seems to retract. We rescued her out of a tree in 2002 on Christmas day- She was so high up, poor thing, that she couldn’t get down and we couldn’t get her either so we tied a rope to a tennis ball, threw it over a branch, and hoisted a basket up to her filled with catnip and tuna. After much hesitation she jumped in and was lowered down to safety, and she has been my favorite ever since. My parents have been begging me to take her home with me for years and I finally did!
My roomie’s cat, Lucius, escaped one day and after a long rescue mission he was covered in mud, tuna, and possibly fleas so she gave him a bath. I took pictures because I’m a jerk. Wet cats make me giggle too much- I feel a little bad about it.
- Rinse and Repeat!
- Its over!
We dried him with a sham wow. They’re not as exciting as the informercials make them seem. Wet cats, however, are very exciting.
I put the books I make up on Etsy! Check out my store! The book below is one I made for a friend.
- Double Button Hole Binding
I’ve been slack about doing art all summer, but I painted a mailbox recently for my summer camp. Here it is:
Now I’m working on some sketches for murals for the camp, fixing my portfolio up a bit and getting it printed nicely, and starting to paint with acrylics again. Soon I will have a lot more artwork to post!
I like it here.
“You know- I have left everywhere I have ever been. I don’t really recommend it though… not that anyone asked me.“
-Ani Difranco, God’s Country
