Friday, July 25, 2008

I'm bad at vacations...

Just as burn out was beginning to set in I got on a plane and flew far far away from my home and back to my biological family. This is the first time I've seen any of them since the whole "coming out" issue, things certainly could have been worse, but they certainly could have been better. I experienced the quieting of the room as I entered, and meaningful stares between aunts and uncles. All in all though they were very tolerant even if not accepting.
On my return I discovered that a lot of folks I used to be close to have started a nude cleaning service. So far their business is pretty slow, but I gave them a few suggestions and I really hope them the best.
One of them expressed interest in dancing/entertaining at bachelor parties, and I've been scraping around craigslist trying to find us something while I'm here, but to not avail. If nothing else it gives me hope that when I eventually move back here there are some awesome Anarchist ladies that might be interested in starting a radical stripper workers collective. Woohoo!

Simply by coincidence I arrived in town to discover that there was going to be an Erotic Arts Festival! I saw some of my friends do a performance focusing on BDSM, trauma and sexual healing, I was quite impressed. The Festival had set up an impromptu peep show booth, and of course I couldn't resist trying my hand at it. I was expecting it would be very different from work, but the reactions were almost entirely the same. The only major difference was that when I exited the stage I was back in a communal space. Oh, and that the floor was made of Astroturf, so my knees were bleeding.

I've finally gotten the chance to read Naked on the Internet by Audacia Ray and I'm finding it really informative on a lot of tech-based issues I was previously unaware of. Ironically I was moonlighting this week, and I went to some guys house and watched him jack off. He claimed that he books girls for Playboy Webcamming, at first I was pretty skeptical of him but he started speaking industry language. Before reading Ms. Ray's book I hadn't seriously considered webcamming as something either profitable or really feasible. He offered me a position and I said I'd consider it and get back to him. We'll see...

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