I went to the Lesbian Avengers tonight. Tonight was the first fire eating night for this year. Max thought those of us who stayed around to learn to eat fire. Each time, before we eat fire, we say "The fire will not consume us. We take the fire and make it our own". The whole exercise is about a person who was burnt alive for being queer. The saying symbolizes that we will take hate, transform it, and build something positive from it

The kerosine flame looked really intimidating. In fact, the first time I tried, I put it inside my mouth, held it there, but couldn't close my teeth over it. But on the second try, I was able to eat it. It felt so empowered after eating the fire. I was beaming. I could see in the other first-time fire eaters' faces the same empowered self-amazement after eating fire. It was wonderful. And the third try felt just as amazing. Facing the fear of putting a large flame into my mouth, then closing my mouth over the flame, is such a mental boost. I'm still shocked that I did it. It's been a couple hours, and I'm still am amazed every time I say in my head, "I ate fire". I can't wait to practice again next week!

I'm feeling much better this evening. My throat is scratchy and my voice is hoarse from all the coughing I did. Other than that, I think the nasty cold is over.

Went to Lesbian Avengers tonight. I really really want to learn how to eat fire!

At the post-Avengers pizza, I was excited to learn that one of the people present was someone on my lj friends list that I had yet to meet IRL, purplepants. I also met another LJer, pillowkisser. I love all these lj-rl connections.

We had a wonder thunderstorm. Marvelous lightning. I ended up falling asleep during the storm. I slept for about 7 hours.

My shoulder and neck still hurt. I'm now worried if one the alters bruised it while I wasn't there.

Had some chips and salsa with raspberry ginger ale.

The Lesbian Avengers are having a "back to school" shopping visibility event at the Cambridgeside Galleria today at 1pm. If I'm up (who knows), I want to go.