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April

If you're going to be weird, be confident about it!

About Me

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Hey there! So, due to a varied and somewhat strange upbringing, I can relate to many people from varying occupations and stages of life. And if I can't, I'll be sure to ask you questions about it six ways from Sunday 'cuz I'm sure I'll find something about it that does interest me.
I also have a wide and sort of unlikely scope of interests. The three greatest that I can pay attention to at the moment are belly dancing, cooking and photography. Which is actually conventient because they can all tie in pretty well.

My Interests


Photography! Road biking! Cooking tasty eats! And of course, bellydance!

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Fat, splashy raindrops on the tin roof. Third Day. The Ditty Bops. Dresden Dolls. Skillet. Nat King Cole. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and music of that like. Relient K. Johnny Cash.The Wallflowers. Gordon Lightfoot. Roger Whittaker. Superchik. Norah Jones. Johnny Mathis. Tobey Mac. 50's, 60's and 70's classics. Favorite song of all time woud be Chain Gang.

Books:

The kind that are made of paper with words in the middle. But seriously, God bless the people who take the time to write something for me to experience vicariously. The Red Tent, The Last Days of Dogtown and anything else by Anita Diamant. The Secret Life of Bees. Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys by James Bradley. Don Quixote and other fantastic classics. The Guide to Getting It On. A smattering of Kurt Vonnegut. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Every Sherlock Holmes book ever witten. The five Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. All things Star Wars.

Heroes:

Anyone who has helped me become a better person than when they first met me. And the following...

My Blog

All work and then some play.

What do you do when your a thousand miles away from home, surrounded by hundreds of your peers and left with hours of time, your collective imaginations and a camera? Well you make a dance video, of c...
Posted by April on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:46:00 PST

Just what is "belly dance", anyway?

There are a few loose rules around it, but belly dance is just about anything you want it to be. Unlike many sports and some forms of art, belly dance is mainly about creation, expression and feminini...
Posted by April on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:22:00 PST

To Kill an American

This is an old newpaper article I found while dredging the bedroom floor a few days ago. I found it to be great food for thought, if not on the side of truth. Please consider and enjoy.   You pro...
Posted by April on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

The Beauty and the Lease

A Wall Street banker responding to an anonymous 25 year old woman who posted an ad on Craigslist describing herself as "spectacularly beautiful" and "superficial" and said she was looking for a husban...
Posted by April on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:29:00 PST

Doesnt everyone shmooze at Seaside?

  So as a final fling, a sweet kiss adieu to the summer, we shuffled out to Seaside.   But first we had to drive along Highway 30, so we stopped to gawk at the Longview/Rainier bridge...
Posted by April on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:12:00 PST

There is no good reason for this...

| It's name is "Miniscule". Call it creative, call it a waste of time, but you can't help but call it good. I especially like the sound effects that are given to the bugs....
Posted by April on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:05:00 PST

KiWi!

Probably the best 2 minutes spent of your day."Kiwi!" is an animation about a Kiwi - a type of bird that cannot fly, who spends its whole life working towards achieving his dream. The kiwi strived to ...
Posted by April on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST

A Lesson In Anger Management

When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know. I was sitting at my desk when I ...
Posted by April on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:48:00 PST