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[derien]

Bellydance class was pretty cool. :) She started out talking about how it wasn't sexual, it was related to sacred dances and cycles of seasons and women's menstrual cycles and all that, to calm the women into feeling good about taking the class, (meanwhile a woman standing next to the woman who invited me was telling us how she saw real bellydancers in Egypt, and they're prostitutes) but during the class she played on the slightly risque and alluring, to keep them interested. Still, putting aside the marketing, I had fun, I sweated, and I got out feeling really well worked-out and limber, relaxed and just generally good.

I also noticed that I suck at following what the teacher's doing. I'm off there doing my own thing and suddenly realize the instructor has started on something else. I attempted to take an aerobics class, once, years ago, and found myself completely confused immediately. I left and never went to another. I suppose that most of the women in this class have taken aerobics and such, and perhaps even did sports in high school. I don't suppose I'll ever get any better at this sort of thing, because I live too much inside my own head. Still, it's not bomb-disarming class.

Now I've done nothing I should, today. Just made pizza, using a gluten-free mix which had been sitting around for years. The crust came out probably three times as thick as it should have - I should have realized that I only needed half of it. We're both over full after only a peice and a half.

And here's today's time-waster: the "Am I A Mary Sue" quiz.

A Childhood Friend Your score was 39 in Unbelievability!

You are your author's childhood friend, and a good example of a fun character for fiction writers everywhere.. You're a pretty neat person- but still very real. You are a person of few extremes, but you have your moments of glory. When you're at your best, people can be wowed by you- but you're not always at your best. And that's OK. You're only human. A novel with you as a character would sell quite well. It might not make the New York Times' bestseller list, but then again, it might. Who knows? Most people would certainly buy a book with you as a character in it. Well, they might wait for it be available in paperback- but they'd buy it eventually.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 11% on Implausibility

Link: The Are You a Plausible Character? Test written by coldrose on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I should go be productive, or something.

Comments

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

Bellydancing, wow! Go you for trying it.

Heh, at least you're not a real Mary Sue...

[derien.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to have to go to a few of the drop-in classes on Sundays. $10 each is kind of steep, but it's fun, and a good workout, and I always wanted to learn bellydancing, from when I was a little kid. My mother was upset by my request.