Pic by arcanepackrat with excellent photoshopping by Anna ;)

We decided to dress up for the movie, and I was impressed by how well we all did just with what was in our closets :) Anna's shirt vest was fabulous, and Dawn was lovely as always ;) The shirt I'm wearing was given to me by my friend Deanna back in high school, I've always loved it, it was cool seeing Kaylee wearing the same one in the last Firefly episode ;)

It was also amusing running around the theater in costume, both in group and alone. The girls in the bathroom didn't seem sure whether they thought the pregnant Kaylee thing was cool or just too weird ;) At first I was bummed that I hadn't thought to bring hair gel for Patri to make him look more Simon-like, but but then decided that Simon with the crazy hair matched well with knocked up Kaylee ;)

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For Halloween weekend, jhogan, loyale, tigresa, and I went to a swing dancing camp in the middle of a Northern California Forest.

It was quite fun. Some highlights:

• the instructors were careful to get a completely balanced ratio of women and men. Unfortuantely we were a little follow heavy because around 30% of the camp was gay, and many of the men wanted to be follows ;)
• trying to remember which women were leads in order to find dancing partners ;)
• tigresa and I flirting with the hot lesbians ;)
• I can now Lindy Hop without thinking too much about the basic footwork ;)
• we all improved drastically in our dancing
• my being in love with my red dress and tigresa being in love with her stockings ;) (I went shopping at a dance store to buy a dress for my recital, because I wanted something which drapped well on the piano bench. Unsurprisingly, it was also wonderful for dancing in ;)
• slow dancing with the sexy gay guy (all the fun of stripping without all of the negatives... except that its much harder to dance sexy in the way that I'm used to when having to remember footwork and the pole is moving ;)
• watching people steam when they stood outside after dancing (it was particularly amusing watching the explosion of steam when a guy with a shaved head took off his hat ;)
• getting loyale hooked on speed scrabble ;)
• arriving tired, getting some sleep Friday night, then staying out dancing until 3am dancing on Saturday, getting up early Sunday, and leaving tired ;)
• jhogan, loyale, tigresa and I playing Settlers of Catan travel edition at 4am after having danced all day long ;)
• dance classes all day long and a wide variety to choose from :)
• dancing with amazing partners
• the talent show: the performers really were talented! Some excellent opera singing, jazz piano playing, dancing, and comedy skits
• watching the instructors dance
• loyale and tigresa letting me steal their camera frequently and take as many pictures as I wanted ;)

Pictures!!! :)

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patrissimo, frogpyjamas and I went on the floating homes tour this past Sunday. I've been taking far fewer pictures lately, as I've been spending more time getting into the moment and less in documentary mode, but with all the neat architecture and art around it was quite fun to be hanging back with my camera while listening to the banter of my friends :) Pictures by me except for the one by frogpyjamas ;)

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Flipside was a wonderful, encompassing, sensual,
and communal experience.

Its too much to write about, but as friends did, I
will make a few notes:

• Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. Burner
  style. Wow.
  
• the beautiful coat, which my camp mates spent so
  much effort working on
  
• Camping with old friends whom I miss and were
  wonderful, and with new
  friends who are also great and incredibly welcoming.
  
• Getting to talk with paniolo99 on the
  car rides, even though
  she did an excellent job of hiding during most of the
  event ;)
  
• Wearing the fairy dress that V made for me :)
  
• people's amazement at my tinny tiny tent ;)
  
• Camping next to the sex noise dome ;)
  
• Playing speed scrabble while listening to sex
  noise ;)
  
• Robot sex ;)
  
• Finding zuleikhajami at night by her
  laugh, and then finding
  furfybird at night by her outline, despite
  having never met her in person before! :)
  
• Up all night talking with furfybird, she's the
  sweetest thing ever :)
  
• lounging under tanjent's shade
  structure
  
• slacking at the Kingdom of Slack
  
• 6opou's funny accent :)
  
• webnesto's humor
  
• Dory and friend singing and performing the Camel
  Toe song ;)
  
• nobodobodon playing the theremin
  
• Seeing reinaness in her lavendar
  princess glory, and getting to hang out a little with
  solractwin
  
• hanging out with tigresa's friends ;)
  
• foolmonkey being my flipside buddy :)
  
• foolmonkey dancing capoiera
  
• dancing with S
  
• playing with peacock feathers
  
• the threesome of well hung hot gay guys who hung
  out by the creek
  
• the peacock feather hat ;)
  
• mhat and his glow in the dark balls ;)
  
• contact juggling while dancing
  
• the Chupacabra jesus commercial ;)
  
• the amazing motion of the musician/dancers
  
• climbing up the none too secure monkey ladder ;)
  
• the cute little dogs :)
  
• the free roaming camp site goat ;)
  
• tanjent lending me his very cool,
  lightweight headlamp
  
• the monkey designed so that the arms would
  collapse inward
  
• general warm, accepted, and enthralled feelings
  

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Nightime
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This past weekend all of us living at alpinebutterfly went on a kayaking excursion to Pt. Reyes. It was great to be outdoors in such a beautiful place with friends. Along with kayaking, we went for a hike along the beach, explored the tide pools, and stayed at a cute little casita ;) ( Read more... )

It was good to see paniolo99, its been a while :) I'm
really looking forward to getting to see all of my Austin friends in
their glory at flipside this May :)

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