hoopin' it up

tracey w/2 hoops
Originally uploaded by jennacide.

the good weather has us hoopers out and about!!! check out this pic of tracey spinning 2 hoops at once. she's getting really good at that. me, when i get them down around my knees they fall to the ground. i can get them up to my chest and back though.

we seem to be skipping seasons here in northampton, MA. i do believe we missed autumn and went directly from summer to winter. likewise, we seem to have gone directly from winter back to summer. it is HOT out!!! the heat is exhausting and it gives me headaches. so i just can't be out in the middle of the day. the trick, then, is to get up and get trotsky-dog to the park and back before the sun is fully overhead. then stay indoors until 5 or 6 pm. then venture out again.

so tracey and i have been hooping together a bit, in the courtyard in front of my building, in pulaski park, and yesterday downtown in front of the church. that's a great spot because so many people come along to join in or just observe. later on, after tracey left megan arrived and with her a magazine photographer and they spent some time doing a photo shoot for who knows what magazine. i hope i don't miss it when it comes out! megan is also performing tomorrow night at the iron horse w/the happy pill circus. i'm excited about going although my obstinate friend mike has still not gotten back to me about whether or not he'll go w/me, so i have to have a backup date waiting in the wings. it's rather frustrating. it's tomorrow night, after all.

anyway, i'm saying all this just because i don't want to think about the really important matter in my life which is finding a job. for me, hooping is the most important thing, and taking advantage of this time when i can hoop out of doors because my living room is so limiting. but i really need a job and i don't know where to begin looking and i have NO clothes to wear to a job interview let alone a job of any sort. unless i do something manual labor-ish. i dreamed last night about dropping by mike's company to see if there were any jobs i could do, and maybe that was a signal from me to me that i really should do that. it's a lead and i should follow it. the other lead i have is one relating to my past life and former career but i'm not sure i'm quite ready to jump back into that yet because it would require major usage of my brain.

adios. i am off to find some clothes to wear to hoop in tonight because i'm supposed to join megan at 9 or 10-ish. it will be a lot of fun if it's not canceled on account of rain.