Dancing By Myself

This is my favorite time of day. Today was gray and rainy, but the sun finally shines in all its glory around 4:30pm. It needs to put on quite a show to make up for the dismal day. That is, until night claims its natural ownership. The sun wrestles with cloud cover and changes hue from white to yellow to orange. It makes the streets sparkle as cars start and stop and honk with the familiar melody of rush hour traffic.

I pour myself a glass of wine and turn on the radio - full blast. Disfruta. Enjoy this time, this sun, this music.

Something in the bass line makes me move, and I start to dance. Then I vainly wonder what I look like. Am I too fat to move like this? But the light is so pretty, who cares, right? And doesn't this dress move so beautifully when I turn?  And no one will ever see it! So I do something extreme... I video myself dancing. In the living room of my apartment, alone. I even go so far as to introduce on video what it is I'm doing. A new low? Or a blatant disregard for my insecurities? I'll claim the latter, por favor. 

And just to top it off, it's now going public. Right here, right now. A little entertainment for your friday... I call it Dancing By Myself.

In other news, I am excited that my writing is going somewhere. I am to be published three times this month by two different publications. That's a big step for me seeing as I have only been published one other time in my life (check out the awesome chick who made that possible). I am proud of my accomplishments. These publications, however, are not able to pay for my work. In all honesty, I don't mind. I know the words are good, and the stories are important. I have enough for the moment to live and eat for the rest of this month (at least).

Last night, an article caught my eye on the value of a "Gift Economy". This man made his entire life's work into "pay what you feel the work is worth". There were no donation suggestions, and no salaries. People could have taken advantage of his services easily (read the full story here), but they didn't. In fact, he got paid more for his work than ever before.

Trusting people. Hmm. Valid concept. I am interested to try this idea as an experiment. I have written a total of twelve blog entries in the last two months (thirteen if you add the one you're reading right now). I have almost 1,000 views. I'm slowly getting my "professional writer" feet wet as I happily work for unpaid gigs. 

However, if you would like me to write something for YOU, email me at janadebusk@gmail.com.

Or perhaps you feel the need to compensate an article or two that you've already read? Sure! I have a paypal account payable to  jana_d2004@hotmail.com. These payments are not handouts and will only be accepted for specific cited work that I have already done or will do in the future.

So, today I wrote a couple articles. I heated up some Ajiaco soup for lunch, and looked for apartments in the afternoon. At 4:30... well, you know the rest. Raise a glass, and have a blast dancing by yourself.