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clevermanka) wrote2013-09-27 09:34 am
clevermanka) wrote2013-09-27 09:34 am
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Doum tek Doum Doum tek
I got this email yesterday:
I’m the communications coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. I help put together the College Monthly staff and faculty newsletter. We’re going to start a new feature in the newsletter showcasing "extracurricular" activities of staff members, basically fun hobbies or activities outside of their jobs.
You were suggested as a candidate for this feature for your belly dancing. If you would be willing to be part of the feature, let me know. If you could just answer the couple of questions below and send a photo of your belly dancing, that’s all I’ll need.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Ursula Rothrock
Communications Coordinator
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Kansas
(785) 864-8118
Extracurricular Questions:
Why do you belly dance?
How long have you belly danced?
What’s your favorite part of belly dancing?
I'm not sure if/how I want to respond seeing as I'mkind of really fucking burnt out right now and I have no recent pictures (within the last twelve months) that I'd like printed on a campus-wide document. Also, my answers would be boring. I'm not much on putting deep motivations into things, so my responses are 1) I enjoy it, 2) Twenty-two years, 3) Audience appreciation. Not really article-worthy material.
So glad I went to the gym yesterday instead of putting it off until tonight because my cramps are even worse today. I hope they're gone by Sunday. The free weights room was chock-full of douche-bros, though. Eight to ten guys (they passed in and out), and about half of them doing (IMO) stupid limited-range motions (like bent rows with super heavy weight but only lifting in a range of six to eight inches). *eyeroll* One guy was doing some pretty impressive deadlifts and (amusingly) he was the smallest guy there.
I'm giving up on this yeast-regulation supplement as a possible solution for my swelling. It hasn't helped at all. In fact, I've had some crazy-bad swelling days that rank up with the worst of them in the past few weeks. So now we're bringing out the big guns. And by big guns I mean a test kit for gut bacteria and parasites that runs $479 (before tax). Guess where my money from not-Smoker is going this year!
Last night after gym time I went to Drumming Circle. After nearly a year's hiatus, our group is back to meeting on Thursday nights. We're a bit smaller due to some drop-outs and fall-outs, but damn do we still sound fantastic. We played a saidi rhythm piece last night (all improv) for about eight minutes with just one drummer, our guitarist, and me on zills and the whole time I wanted to be recording it because we sounded fucking fantastic.
I so much want this workday to be over. I can tell it's going to be a miserable slog until check-out time.
I’m the communications coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. I help put together the College Monthly staff and faculty newsletter. We’re going to start a new feature in the newsletter showcasing "extracurricular" activities of staff members, basically fun hobbies or activities outside of their jobs.
You were suggested as a candidate for this feature for your belly dancing. If you would be willing to be part of the feature, let me know. If you could just answer the couple of questions below and send a photo of your belly dancing, that’s all I’ll need.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Ursula Rothrock
Communications Coordinator
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Kansas
(785) 864-8118
Extracurricular Questions:
Why do you belly dance?
How long have you belly danced?
What’s your favorite part of belly dancing?
I'm not sure if/how I want to respond seeing as I'm
So glad I went to the gym yesterday instead of putting it off until tonight because my cramps are even worse today. I hope they're gone by Sunday. The free weights room was chock-full of douche-bros, though. Eight to ten guys (they passed in and out), and about half of them doing (IMO) stupid limited-range motions (like bent rows with super heavy weight but only lifting in a range of six to eight inches). *eyeroll* One guy was doing some pretty impressive deadlifts and (amusingly) he was the smallest guy there.
I'm giving up on this yeast-regulation supplement as a possible solution for my swelling. It hasn't helped at all. In fact, I've had some crazy-bad swelling days that rank up with the worst of them in the past few weeks. So now we're bringing out the big guns. And by big guns I mean a test kit for gut bacteria and parasites that runs $479 (before tax). Guess where my money from not-Smoker is going this year!
Last night after gym time I went to Drumming Circle. After nearly a year's hiatus, our group is back to meeting on Thursday nights. We're a bit smaller due to some drop-outs and fall-outs, but damn do we still sound fantastic. We played a saidi rhythm piece last night (all improv) for about eight minutes with just one drummer, our guitarist, and me on zills and the whole time I wanted to be recording it because we sounded fucking fantastic.
I so much want this workday to be over. I can tell it's going to be a miserable slog until check-out time.