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Via KLo, whose stories were lovely. 1. I’m a Raqs Sharqi dancer.I’ve always thought belly dance was beautiful and wanted to try it. Five or six years ago I went to a raqs sharqi class because it was the nearest thing to belly dance in my area. And I fell in love with it. I…
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Via From Sand to Glass. 1. If you blog anonymously, are you happy doing this? If you aren’t anonymous, do you wish you started out anonymously so that you could be anonymous now?I started off blogging anonymously and I had two reasons. Firstly, I was a little nervous of what reaction I might get. I…
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Yay! Internet meme time! The latest internet meme that I have found is to list the 15 fictional characters that have influenced you the most. Tricky one this. I find it really hard to remember specific characters. You’re supposed to spend 15 minutes thinking about it but I spent an hour. Also, I’m not sure…
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New year, new blog template, new challenge! Not that I’ve ever done one of these challenges before. So, I’m going to sign up for the 100 books in a year reading challenge hosted by Book Chick City. Keep an eye on the sidebar for the list and I will do ‘Thoughts on reading’ posts for…
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Martin said I could steal this, so I did. I needed to ease myself back into blogging regularly, so what could be more lightweight than a getting-to-know-you-questions meme. 1. What do you consider your hometown to be? Stevenage, I guess. I’m not sure I really feel the concept of hometown though. I wasn’t born here,…
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I do like lists. From the Huffington Post, here’s a list of books that apparently people claim to have read but haven’t. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer – I read the Knight’s Tale at school, and it’s on book mountain, but I haven’t read any more tales. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville –…
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I Write Like is an hilarious widget which analyzes your writing and gives you a comparison to a famous author. I tried it a few times and my results were: paragraphs from a business email – H.P. Lovecraft. I may have to think about how I’m writing to my colleagues! paragraphs from the brand new…
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