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So, the interview went very well and she said that even if she doesn't hire me, she'll give me writing assignments. And there are benefits after 90 days. She said she'd call by Wednesday and I haven't heard from her yet.

So now, of course, I'm agonizing over leaving the present job. How many jobs are out there where you can put on a belly dance performance for a sweet little lady in a wheelchair? I'm reminded that this kind of gratification is worth far more than the paycheck.......which is already gone before it's arrived, again.

The past few weeks have been a dark journey but I survived the fire, I think.......This is life and I'm still here under protest......let me remember that we're all spirits living in a human world rather than the reverse.

It is finally cooling off in the air as fall leans in a bit closer to snow(where I live)
Holiday's are coming soon solstice or X-mas or what have you.
I've been busy adding a few new Coin jewelery creations(pic's are so hard any tip's out there?)
& T-shirt/Hoodie designs of cute Oriental Victorian postcards.
Visit my Souk Shop If you are interested.
Happy Shimmies! Shahravar
www.shahravarbellydance.com

Hark!

Join the biggest comic book creation seminar of the summer!

Glass House grand guru David Campiti and a host of GHG talents,
in association with Studio Sakka,

presents

4th Annual MANILA COMICS CREATION SEMINAR

2-day seminar workshop

Learn various advanced techniques and practical details for a profitable career in comic book and newspaper strip creation from comic book professional writer/agent David Campiti; artists lecturing at the Seminar will include Rainier Beredo, Jinky Coronado, Tina Francisco, Jeffrey Huet, Jonathan Lau, Carlo Pagulayan, Wilson Tortosa, and others, including some special guests.

Well hi all, I would really like to RSS feed my blog to this spot but I don't have the technology...so if you have tips, keep in touch.
I Lova the Belly Dance! I have been studying & teaching for about 15 years. I am Slc, Utah based. currently in Fort Collins, Colorado with a couple classes in Cheyenne & Laramie Wyoming.
I really love working with live bands if only Crash Worship would work it out and play together again.

O.K. until next time.
-Shahravar

I wanted to let you know that I have a
brand spankin' NEW site up with lots of new work
at http://www.herzco.com

It took forever, but it looks great -
Please take a look!

bh

I put off calling her back until pretty late in the day and found myself agreeing to an interview. During the 90 minute drive to dance class from where my current job had sent me, I had so much time to weigh the pros and cons that I was sleepy by the time I got there.

I've done without health insurance all this time although I have been holding out for the promises that the company has been giving since January. We did get the optical and didn't even know that we could have used it for an entire month. I can probably pull off getting new glasses and getting them paid for if I do it next week.

Why can't jobs or men come along when there are no complications in my life? My dear, beautiful friend, in an effort to help me return to sanity is trying to hook me up with a job that I can't possibly take right now due to a multitude of complications on my current job - not the least of which is having health insurance finally materialize so that I can go and have those heart tests done before the next heart attack transports me to the Summerland....I just can't change jobs right now.

I've put off returning the call but I have to do that today. Universe, if you can show me any mercy at all after what I've been through in this last month, could you fix it so that I can just get a few assignments from this person instead of having to turn down the full time job that I'm sure won't pay enough and is way too far of a daily commute and is totally impossible for me to even consider right now???????

17 August 2006 8:21 am

God, time passes so quickly that I can't even keep up with myself - and I'm barely moving.

I made an approach to the painted bridge last night, though I did not find a way onto the bridge. I probably could have, but I was too afraid to stick around - more on fear later. I learned some new things, though!

There's a third bridge below the Bridge of Art. A wooden footbridge in a "U" shape, and it too is a Path of Spiders. Unlike the upper bridge which had a single fine web between each bar of the rail, this bridge is absolutely filled with webs layered on themselves; silver in the moonlight, with multiple large brown spiders hanging fat and heavy from their strands.

14 August 2006 11am

I still haven't made it to the bridge. That's not just dissapointing, it's frightening. Everything becomes a distraction. One responsibility justifies procrastination of another.

My S.O. has been reading a lot of Haruki Murakami lately, and she told me that she was starting to get fed up with him because fundamentally, all his books struggle with, but do not address, the same issue over and over again.

When Murakami visited MIT a while back, S.O. told me she regretted not asking a particular question at the Q&A; regarding his level of personal investment in the world that his writings struggle with - this subconscious underworld of curses and watery emotion. After doing some more reading and pondering the matter for a few months - well almost a year, actually, she decided that, in a certain way, his writing is insincere.