whirlwind weekend: faeraura

faeraura

whirlwind weekend

Feb 13, 2005 20:21

There are some times when I just have to step back and give myself a reality check, look at myself from the outside and say "Damn my life is fucking awesome!" This weekend was one of those times. SURREAL = FUN

So I'm getting over being really sick this week right? I should be resting and staying in all weekend......-eeeeerrr- wrong! Friday I went to Spiral with Cam, Tasha, Kelly and Kelly's awesome friend Matt. Kelly brought him and we didn't know if he knew it was a gay club....but he was really cool when we got there. This guy (I think he might be a regular or someone who owns it) kept checking him out and trying to figure out if he was straight....and Matt was totally cool with it. He is probably one of the only straight guys I know who is comfortable enough with himself to not be wierded out by that and to have an awesome time at a gay club. ALSO of course Rachel was there....major flirting going on for my part...but I don't know if anything will come of it. It was an awesome time overall regardless...dancing is always good for the soul!

Ok so after that you'd think I would stay home Saturday and rest right? -eeeeeerrr- wrong again! I rested all day Sat. and went to se GRITO SERPENTINO!!!! with candykids345, riverrriot , Carla, oneragingstar , humalong , mollyboy , etc etc lots of cool ppl and they were SOOOO AMAZING!! Badass xicano music and socio-political-economic commentary....Everybody got up and danced in the back and everything. Beforehand there was this poet named Trinidad who was just awesome. One of his poems was about being "illegal" and one of my favorite lines said that he is proud to be illegal because that is everything that the government is not, everything that the oppressors are not. The opposite.

THEN most of us went over to Bower for some major partying funfunfun EVEN COWGIRLS FALL IN LOVE!!! I brought along meercat23 and Jocelyn....and everybody was dressed like cowpeople!! AND there were cowpeople playing KLAZMER MUSIC!!! A KLAZMER BAND!! Rock on! And TRAVELLING MINSTRELS!!! SO surreal. We all danced our asses off HOEDOWN style! And I made friends with veggieramen finally and had some interesting conversations about sexuality. Then some 16 yr old showed me the animals. I saw a bunch of flying squirrels sleeping and a dove and a mudskipper and 2 snakes!

((Formal apology: I am soooo sorry KELLY and Jocelyn....I left you guys there without saying bye...I was just kind of swept out of there and I was drunk....forgive me??? :-) Did you get home ok?))

TIME = 3:00am I thought I was just going to go to Bower and then go home, but NO! I met this awesome womyn Sayrah (yes that's how she spells it) and she took me and oneragingstar to the MEXA party at Clifford St. where Grito Serpentino was partying!!! What an amazing culturally rich night. I learned how to merengue and salsa for real with Rudy (who later tried to get me to kiss him so he would pay for my breakfast) and had like 4 people think my Billie Holiday shirt was of a xicana woman. I got to hang out with these awesome Mexista activists...and I have never had so much fun dancing!!! PLus I got to practicar mi espanol with native speakers and people who grew up speaking spanish at home. It was SOO AWESOME. I got asked "De donde eres" over and over again by this guy who was convinced I was some girl he met in Colombia like 5 years ago and wouldn't believe me when I said I was from Michigan. Yay for drunk conversations en espanol!

And just when you thought I would be going home after that, the party ended and we all went over to the Lansing version of The Fleetwood...by this time, TIME = 5:30am! The band had to catch their plane and leave by 6:30 and that waitress Natasha...wow she was great to wait on like 20 drunk people at 5:30 in the morning.

The later part of my night made sort of took me back to the person that I used to be last year.....I used to let men push me around and take advantage of me...I used to feed off of their compliments and advances even if I was not interested just because it made me feel beautiful and attractive and worth something. But now everything is ok because I don't think I've been hit on by so many men so many times in the same night and I didn't think anything of it. I brushed them off politely and didn't let them falsely add to my self worth, hence really taking it away. I was really thankful to have Jordan and David there with me in the restaurant or else I might have felt a little uncomfortable. Since most of my experience with men has been of the likes of the men who were hitting on me, trying to dance WAY too close, and asking me rude questions about my sexuality, to have Jordan and David there next to me in contrast gave me hope that not all guys are like this...there are men out there who are decent and respectful of womyn.

I am so lucky to have such rich experiences and meet such diverse groups of people....I still can't get over how fucking awesome my life really is....I must keep this in mind next time I complain.

I arrived home in one piece....exhausted....TIME = 6:58am

And I woke up today surprisingly hangover free...TIME = 5:40pm!

And when my mother called I told her I was staying in to rest. --Snicker--