Bellydance Nerds

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I have always been a teensy bit starstruck. In my preteens it was Michael J. Fox. He was so cute, so approachable.I cried and cried when I realized that after pouring my 12 yr old heart out onto a piece of paper, he responded with a form letter.( but I still taped it to the wall over my bed and fell asleep to his pre-printed scrawly handwriting every night for years). Then in my teen years it was Axl Rose, Metallica, Iron Maiden. I was especially crazy about Axl and Gn'R.
     Then I entered the radio business, and got really jaded with ,"stars". Some of them were royal JERKS...Sheryl Crow, and some of them were super super nice, John Mellencamp ( although we were told that if we uttered the word "cougar" he'd hang up on us). I guess I realized that being a star can mean a lot or it can mean absolutely nothing. ( ahem...Octomom).
       Last night at a bellydance thing I was talking to the lovely Azadi about her facebook profile pic which happens to be a picture of her and Rachel Brice. While gushing about various dance "stars" I realized that my star struck sickness never really went away.
     Case in point:

     The Scene: Me ordering costumes from L Rose last week, speaking with what had to be the nicest woman on the planet.

        Place: the phone

        ( after all the details were worked out)

       Lora Anthony: "Well thank you, Tara for your order."

      Me: "Thank you, and with whom am I speaking?"

       Lora: "Oh this is Lora."

       Me: Frozen, realizing that this was Shoshanna's mom, and would it be terribly bad taste to say    something to the effect of "oh I am your daughters biggest fan!).
         
        "Um, o.k. thanks."

     I hate that I would be a tiny bit nervous around Delilah, Neon, Michelle Joyce, not crazy nervous, not freako stalker-y nervous, but a tiny bit. Enough to put me in the category of "still star struck". I am attending a Suhalia workshop in November, and I would like to get a picture with her. Not enough to be part of the horde that follows her around asking, but if it happens organically,then it would make me happy.
     Yes, I am a bellydance nerd. Yes, I want a picture with Suhalia, yes I would probably tape it to my bedroom wall. ( just kidding.....but I might want to).