high life at the high bar
last weekend i was at the 'high bar' at the rooftop of the gramercy park hotel. it was quite nice being there, mingling with ultra cosmopolitan new yorkers (though the pretension rate and the upturned noses could really get on my nerves at times) ... then there was my throng: my sister, my brother-in-law and friends. ever the impoverished soul, i was broke and became a leech to whoever will shell out the 12 bucks plus tip PER drink ... so there i was, sipping my apple martini then my quick two drinks of mojitos (just because i needed to get buzzed pretty quickly because i was becoming such a liability on people's budgets!) and found myself uttering these words to my sister: "i am having such a good time. i feel so free!" ... staring far into the many new york rooftops, with varying heights, shapes and sizes, i did not miss the lucid night and the apparent arrival of a full moon evident in the silvery shine in the sky. a humid breeze, intermittent in its passing, brushed upon my being whereupon i wondered what exactly i was 'free' from. moreover, what was i a slave of that i should be so released from it? ... a drunken chain of thought that is being soberly followed-up on! how pathetic!
why do i think so much?!!
so in-between the carnival of delusions in my head, the freeloading that i was so unashamedly doing (how dare i?!), the whimsical profundity and discourse on metaphoric freedom, i find yours truly admiring a congregation of very good looking trendy men, seated on the table next to ours. turns out that they were friends of a friend and their location at the rooftop bears a geographic coordinate called the "gay table", as opposed to the "straight table" populated by us single women who, in one way or the other, are walking personal ads ready to pitch to the gay table ... so it was all-gay/all-men and all-straight/all-women .. how can one ever win in that situation?
well, it was a fun night anyway ... and it didn't have to be all about making a match.com story come to life ... we had drinks, met new people, laughed, talked and enjoyed! and really, it was the first time in a few months that i can say i enjoyed a good night out! besides, i wasn't up for a PYOT! :)
happy sunday!