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Javacia N. Harris

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I'm a journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky, but I moved here from California and I was born and bred in Birmingham, Alabama. This means I often use the words "dude" and "y'all" in the same sentence. You've been warned. If you want to read the stuff I write to pay the rent, visit www.courier...

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My first hit

I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging lately but I have a good excuse. I was hit by a car. No really I was. (Click here to read all about it.)

This has put quite a damper on my plans to do one new thing each day of fall. Sure, the day of my accident I racked up plenty of fall firsts – get hit by a car, ride in an ambulance, be rolled around on a gurney. But my doctor doesn’t want me doing any high impact exercising for a while (my neck and back were kinda jacked up for a couple of weeks), and since many of the items on my list of fall firsts were dance classes, boot camp classes, etc., I need to regroup.

So far it’s been a fun fall, you know, other than that whole getting hit by a car thing. Here’s a sample of some of my adventures:

Model for a magazine. It was a local mag, but I still worked it. :)

Be on FM radio. Representing the arts and entertainment publication I work for I was on two morning radio shows talking about features in that week’s issue.

Try a new belly dance class. I’ve taken belly dance several times before but there’s a woman in Louisville who everyone hails as one of the best. And they were right. I took the class and loved it.

Try Zumba. It’s a Latin dance-based cardio class that I loved so much I thought about trying to get certified to teach it myself.

Buy some new pieces of art. I got some graffiti art and some cool photos at a local arts and crafts fair.

I also got hooked on a new TV show. Anyone else in love with Vampire Bill from True Blood?

I hope my list gave you some inspiration for some fall firsts of your own. But now I need your help. I need some ideas to replace my days of dance I had planned. Can you help a sistah out?