The NMA is the National Motorists Association and everyone should join.
http://www.motorists.org/

The National Motorists Association is a membership organization devoted to representing and protecting the rights and interests of North American motorists.

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Founded in 1982, the National Motorists Association advocates, represents, and protects the interests of North American motorists.

We are the organization that promoted federal legislation which eliminated the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit.

NMA Objectives:
To guarantee the retention of your individual rights when using public streets, roads, and highways.
To support traffic laws based on sound engineering criteria and public consensus.
To protect your right to own and use the kinds of vehicles you prefer.
To support improved driver training and education.
To oppose speed traps and other traffic enforcement measures carried out for revenue-generation purposes.
To promote driver-to-driver courtesy and cooperation.

Average temperatures in January:
Spain: 9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees for us)
Germany: 1-6 degrees Celsius (33-42 degrees for us)
Ireland: 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees for us)

So basically, our choices are cold, really cold, really cold. Hmmmmm. Well, Spain lists snow as likely and Ireland just says rain. This is going to be such a hard decision.

(I’m going to make a new picture for traveling.)

Fine! I will immidiately post the news to lj.

Tom won a trip! A 7 or 8 day trip to Europe!!! (See, donating money to the NMA is worth it!!) We get to pick which package we want.

Ireland for 8 days, “From Dublin via the Dun Na Ri National Forest Park to Connemara.” Then it goes full circle round the island.

Andalusia for 8 days, “The Land of Cortijos, Haciendas & Palaces, Great Mosque, Moorish villages and Andalusia’s white towns will be explored.”

Germany for 7 days, “Munih, the Romantic Road and the great Castles of Ludwig II in Fuessen/Hohenschwangau.”

Decisions decisions… I know what I am doing for part of January!!!

And this would be how I book out way in advance. 🙂

According to: http://cheekysquirrel.net/squirrelname/index.php

I am Admiral Crazy Whiskers!!!

That’s right buddy. I’m an Admiral. You had better salute me.

This may or may not be my final announcement for this class in my lj. Depends on how panicky I get…. ACK!!!

The class will be $15 for non-Janus members. It is not yet 100% clear how many people I can get in. So if ya’ll want to go-let me know damn quickly!!!

It is next Thursday, August 5th in San Francisco. I will tell you that it is going to be near 8th and Folsom. (Those of you who can guess the location but aren’t Janus members shouldn’t just show up because they may or may not let you in.) Alternatively, I suppose I could start pairing people up with the Janus members I know. It wouldn’t be too hard for me. Remember this description? Bondage Basics

The doors open at 7 and the class runs from 8-10. I will somehow manage to not puke until 11.

I need one flexible boy and one flexible girl for demos!!!! I also want two girls who are going to the class anyway that I can dress up. You’ll like it! I promise! The girls for dressing up should be in the size 12/14 range or the stuff won’t fit. 🙂 (I am being bigotted and saying I want flexible people for the demos because it is just easier to show stuff on people who are easy to move around. I will probably pull someone from the audience at some point who isn’t flexible and show a variation for those who aren’t bendy.)

ok, breathe. ok, breathe. oh god oh god oh god oh god.

This ends your public service announcement. *beeeeeep*

For no real reason at all I feel like writing about abuse.

Much to my chagrin I was looking at my calendar today and noticed that the CC Rider class that I was registered for conflicted with 2 classes for school (including the first day) and 2 weekend events that I can’t reschedule. Shit shit shit. k, fine. Called around. Now I’m in another one. September 9, 11, 12. It neatly wraps around my birthday. Happy birthday to me! I will be so fucking tired when I go in for a 7am class after my birthday party, but that is the next possible time for me to do it. I will load up on sleep in advance and just not drink. I will be fine. I function fine on 6 hours as long as I don’t make a habit of it. Now I will only miss one night of class.

It also means no Ren Faire that weekend. but such is life.

“I can’t call you a whore, you don’t have enough self control to be paid for this.”

A first

Intermediate Spanish: MWF 1:30-2:55
Psychological Foundations (something for the credential): M 4-6:45
Methods and Materials of Literature Research: M 7-9:45
Multicultural Foundations: W 4:30-8:15

This means that both Plough and Praynksters are off the list. 🙁 This means I can’t teach MWF unless I do kindergarden, which is far from my favorite. This means that given that SSG is gone, I won’t be dancing much at all!!! I will only have FNW/PEERS/Gaskell’s. Although, Fezziwigs is during this time period. Classes begin August 25 and finals end on December 17.

If I want to go to Pacific Friction I would have to miss a whole set of classes, which would make no one happy. Although, given that I do not ditch lightly, missing a class wouldn’t kill me.

Rough approximation of commitments (for myself)
Mondays: Mornings could be spent on homework. Afternoons/night in class.
Tuesdays: Work? Dates?
Wednesdays: Morning on homework. Afternoon/evening in class. Night… dates?
Thursdays: Work? Dates?
Fridays: homework/housework/class. Dance/dates?

Damn! All this free time! What in the world will I do with myself? Well yes, I will spend lots of time masturbating, but other than that I mean. None of these classes will be labor intensive for homework. I won’t have much reading. There will only be a few papers. It so rocks to have my schedule. The sadists among you might be asking why I don’t add another class if my schedule is such a cake walk. Well, I couldn’t add one one on Mondays or Wednesdays because of scheduling. There are no night classes on Fridays and I absolutely refuse to drive to campus 4-5 days/week. I’m spoiled like that.

The gown: http://northbound.com/Northbound.taf?S=w19&RegId=&bSize=325&_UserReference=CB8257CD4E09BAE140FC93B2

The weekend so far has been… uhm… interesting.

If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, completely mind-blowing, consciousness-expanding, 12 hour fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal…

This is the activity that you would pick above all the other lovely things you like right now. I am fully aware that most of us don’t just like one thing! Silly people.

I also feel the need to say that I like my friends and their answers. 🙂

There are two meme’s going on right now that I could be sucker and join in. So I’ll give ya’ll a choice. You can do one, or the other, or both, or neither. 🙂 Whatever tickles your fancy.

If we were alone in a room together right now, what would we be doing?

“This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.”

Comments will be screened, so feel free to be as graphic as you like. 😉

Responses:
Some yummy suggestions as what to do with me. I knew I liked ya’ll.

Question- How’d you get introduced to the poly/kink/pansexual community, and what made you want to be actively part of it?
Well, that is a multi-part question with different answers! I started doing queer (my version of pansexual) stuff when I was fairly young. I have been fooling around with girls since before puberty so actually being involved with the queer scene as it were started happening around 15. What made me want to be part of it? Uhm.. biology? Girls are hot. Kink started happening for me when I was 18. I actually found out about bdsm because of a chat room. *blush* I was told to read _SM101_ and things snowballed from there. I started going to munches and met my primary at my first party. Being kinky is just part of who I am. I have always wanted kinky stuff even when I didn’t know the words to ask for what I wanted. I am very new to poly actually. I have always had poly friends, but I have only been exploring it as an option since last December. For years there was no one I wanted to be with other than my partner. Then all of a sudden I hit a wall of frustration within my relationship and I stumbled across these feelings for someone I knew… He was so damn cute and hot and many things about him appealed to me on many levels. I wanted him bad. So I asked for permission to date him. Then I asked for permission to have sex with him. Then I said I liked poly and I wanted to do more of it. My partner said, “I just want you to be happy.” Thus my entry into the poly community such as it is. Things with the person I wanted first didn’t quite work as one might hope, but we are good friends and he is still a damn good lay. One that I have been thinking about very fondly for a bit. Hmmmm. Maybe he will be willing to let me have benefits?

So uhm… that crack about needing to teach my class locally? Well… I just exchanged emails with someone…

Save the date folks. Thursday, August 5th I will be teaching Bondage Basics for The Society of Janus.

I think the class will be in the city. I don’t know what time yet. I’ll post more details when I know. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.

So much for teaching the class far away from anyone who knows me as a test run… If I do less than spectacularly there will be no disassociating myself! Ah crap. Guess I better do well. 🙂

Sometimes bondage is the point. Sometimes bondage is part of a larger scene. Sometimes bondage is only necessary to encourage someone to stand still while you hit them. All of these different types of bondage are valid and fun. Different ways of incorporating bondage into your scenes, from decoration to basic restraint to sensory deprivation experiences, will be talked about in this class. It will include a survey of various materials that can be used for bondage, safety concerns and tips for negotiating bondage scenes, and advice on where to begin in acquiring bondage gear.

For this entry-level class you do not need a partner. Please bring a short length of rope (10′ or less) in order to practice basic knots. There will be some practice of tying simple single-limb and double-limb lashings, but they can generally be done around your own leg(s).

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Lenora is a bouncy, happy, energetic switch who thinks the answer to almost any question should be “yes.” She resides in the bay area and is active in the local scene there. She discovered the scene four years ago and dove into the deep end head first. Bondage and D/s have always been her main interests. She is a firm believer in scenes wherein, “Bondage is the point” and is eager to show others that bdsm does not always have to include hitting. She is a member of the Society of Janus and the Portland Leather Alliance. She has co-taught classes on bondage and suspension for Dragons Keep, Society of Janus, and Thunder in the Mountains.

Take the quiz: “What Is Your Kink?”

Submission
You live to serve! You’re most excited when someone else takes the reins and controls the situation. You’re happy to do whatever will make your partner happy, even if it isn’t your favorite thing to do. In the bedroom, you aim to please. Your motto is, Yes Sir/Ma’am!

Sometimes bondage is the point. Sometimes bondage is part of a larger scene. Sometimes bondage is only necessary to encourage someone to stand still while you hit them. All of these different types of bondage are valid and fun. Different ways of incorporating bondage into your scenes, from decoration to basic restraint to sensory deprivation experiences will be talked about in this class. It will include a survey of various materials that can be used for bondage, safety concerns and tips for negotiating bondage scenes, and advice on where to begin in acquiring bondage gear.

You do not need a partner. Please bring a short length of rope (10′ or less) in order to practice basic knots.

(Uhm…. should I add anything else?)