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9/9/09– together with hoopers around the planet celebrating hooping on this day, we Bay Area folk (over a hundred of us) met up at San Francisco’s Civic Center–right in front of (back of?) City Hall. (Maybe Gavin was watching.) There were Santa Cruz, NY, Austin, even Canadian and French hoopers there! What a treat. I caught the free tutorials from Nicole Wong of Cherry Hoops, Miss Rosie of Hero Hoops, Christabel of HoopGirl, Rich of isopop. I hope I caught something symbiotically from talking, hanging, and just a tiny bit of hooping with Fraulein Spiral and Brecken, too.
While on the platform in Oakland waiting for the train to SF, a woman approached me and asked about the hoop, whether I’d been to Burning Man…She–Susanne–is a photographer, and wound up coming with me to City Hall and shooting us for a bit. Turns out she collected me as a “stranger” in this cool “100 Strangers” project. Someone posted a comment on the Flickr page saying I look like a mermaid.
photo by Philo Hagen
This photo here is by my wonderful friend Philo Hagen, who covered World Hoop Day beautifully here.
My tank top, by the way, is from Hoopla Berlin (“guaranteed to make your hips smile”), 
and arrived the day before World Hoop Day as a surprise gift from my bestest Berlin girlfriend (bbg?) Uta. It seemed obvious I was supposed to don it for WHD. Since it’s yellow with day-glo orange, I decided to go all the way with the kawaii candy colors.
It was a nice way to go out with the hoopers of the Bay Area.
the 100 strangers shot (the "mermaid"!)
