hadria, the hottest hooper

it took me a while but i managed to find hadria at burning man and get her to teach me how to do that sexy barrel roll thing that she does. she's a really cool person. i LOVE her hooping. of all the hoopers i've watched, hadria is by far my favorite. i think it's because she's kind of my speed... and i can aspire to something like this. not like i'm anywhere near close. but whatever. i love that she's hooping to spearhead here.



so, hadria will be in northampton soon for this 4-day hooping "intensive" and "instructor training" put on by diana lopez & hooping harmony... i would love to take part in this crazy thing but it costs a load of money. and i have no money. which is sad. i really could use some intensive hooping of any flavor. but i assume that the participants will come hoop in the park after the sessions and i'll pick up a little something or other one way or another.

i am looking in the mirror and i look old and worn. i just got back from a weekend in NYC assisting on a photo shoot with my friend who shall not be named until he says ok, name me. we had a really fun time. part of my job was to document the documenter so i shot video and stills during the shoot. now i'm supposed to do some sort of write-up of it though my mind is a big blank. what happened that day? i just remember the part where my hip gave out at the end after we walked 5-7 miles through manhattan carrying all our stuff. after that i was lame and limped and it only got worse overnight and i worried that i would have to have a hip replacement at age 40, but after putting some tiger balm on it this morning it actually started to feel a bit better.

i'm not too thrilled about being home. i've been on the road for so long and now suddenly i'm alone in my apartment with nothing to eat. it's too late to go out to the corner store and hard to find vegan food there anyway. i need to take some time to go to cornucopia and do some real food shopping in the next couple days. oh well. for now, bed. in the morning ed is meeting me here for coffee and then driving me to springfield so i can apply to become a school bus driver.