The Different Degrees of Movement

There's lots of movement going on in this world right now. It's been a long time since I have blogged anything because I've been pretty busy and honestly, there hasn't been anything earth shattering enough going on to give me enough fuel to pump out a somewhat decent piece of writing that you would maybe want to read. Since I last wrote, we have moved again. We are in the Treme--which I am super happy about. It's really nice being downtown. So close to all of my friends and to the French Quarter where I do the majority of my work. My amazing boyfriend was kind enough to rent us one of his properties so we are well taken care of here. I'm really counting on this to be our last move until I would ideally purchase the building for the school. It's not a huge place but the kids have their own rooms, the water gets really hot for baths, and it's a place we can hunker down for a while. We've moved 3 times in less than a year and that's way too much. But we're definitely one move closer to eventual goal.

I haven't worked in the club much lately but I did work last week and had a pretty mediocre night. I was in a good head space to make some money and did ok on stage but people weren't really buying dances or rooms so much. I thought that it would be pretty busy with it being Jazz Fest but, I think that that's where all the people were. For the first time ever, some people that I would rather have not run into at the club ended up there. A group of my ex's friends showed up and recognized me immediately of course. One of them was even calling me by my real name when he would see me. I'm sure it as much a novelty for them to see me there as much as it was a pain in the ass for me to see them there. I'm also sure my ex was bombarded with text messages and is now very certain that I strip where as before, I think he just assumed. We have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

The word is spreading about the school, about what I do, and what it's doing for other people. It makes me happy. I want to be successful at this more than anything and I know that there are good things coming down the pipeline...until then I'll just keep moving.