I have had an exquisite* past couple of days!

Do you remember back in the day when I started my weekend partying on Thursday nights? I am back at it!
Thursday night Carl, Cody, Jenny, David, and I made our way to Club XS for college night. It was not a particularly amazing night, but it was good. With a lot of drama on the side, which ew, but that's what happens when you mix boxed wine with three people in the back seat (I stayed sober, I was riding shotgun!)
(I'm hugging my friend Eric in that picture that Cody took.)

Then Friday happened. Friday was wonderful. You know why? Because I GOT MY CAR BACK!!!! FINALLY! Six weeks after my accident, I can finally drive again! And, oh boy, I did! I drove from Harrisburg back to cmapus and then out to the Park City Mall, and then back to campus and then to York where I met up with Cody, at which point he took over driving and took my car to Townson, Maryland. We met up with our friend Brendan and headed further south to Washington D.C.
Our friend Jason was working as a shotboy at Cobalt, but since I couldn't get in and most of our companions for the night had bailed on us, no one went to Cobalt to support him. We spent the whole night at Club Apex, where there were a few gorgeous people (and I made out with a girl, eh, it happens). Mostly they were ugly, but it's alright, it was still fun.

This afternoon I awoke in my bed (lord only knows how I made it upstairs and into my room. I only remember getting to the door of my dorm.) to discover my friend Melanie STANDING IN THE DOOR WAY! I had forgotten completely that she and I were planning to watch Saved! and so...we did. And all the special features on my DVD.

So tonight I am going to work. Buuuut....I am driving myself there. And I am driving myself back. Because I have my car back!!! :)

*exquisite is a word I 100% stole from Cody.

" Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."

That's the fortune cookie that I got from Alexsander's blog today. It eerie because, in truth, I just had the craziest weekend yet -- and I should still be taking it easy because of my incredibly awful flu/cold/black death from this week.

Happy Chinese New Year, by the way.
And also? Happy Mardi Gras. I know it isn't til Tuesday but I have already had the most extreme Mardi Gras of my life. (Then again, usually I just go to my church's pancake supper, so I guess that's not hard to top as far as excitement goes...)

I know, I should have stayed in bed. I mean, I was just deathly ill pretty much all week.
But I also know that when my club brings in DJ Seth Gold the dancers can make TONS of money. I was not about to miss that kind of opportunity. Call me greedy, call me ambitious, call me just plain stupid....I was not missing this.

So I spent yesterday at the mall preparing for the Mardi Gras party. Cody showed up to pick up David (who was working at the mall) and myself, and off we went to dinner at Jenny's. Dave and Rob showed up shortly after us, and then Sean and Miguel came. We all sat and chatted for a while. The food was DELICIOUS!!!!!!!! There was pasta, brocolli, and chicken with this creamy white sauce....so good! For dessert that was ice cream and pecan pie. Well, mostly pecan pie but for those of us who can't have nuts... We all ate until we were stuffed. It was a GREAT dinner party, so much fun (so much FOOD!)
(The picture here is Cody, Josh, Miguel, Jenny, and David...most of the crew from dinner.)
Of course, there was a lot of jokes about the creamy white sauce (c'mon, one straight girl and seven gay men, obviously there's going to be a lot of those jokes. :-P). After dinner we chatted a while longer and then dispersed to prep ourselves for Mardi Gras.

Cody and I adjourned to his house. We made a masterpiece of my hair, got ourselves all ready, and then we were off.DJ Seth Gold always brings in a couple dancers of his own. He almost always brings in this one guy by the name of Kevin, who I met last year before either one of us had started dancing like this (as far as I know...) and, last night, he brought in a friend of mine named Austin.
And, as predicted, everybody made a TON of money. He also brought this cute blonde guy to assist him. We barely had enough room for all of us, but we made due and we worked it.

The club had purchased 45 pounds of beads for us, the drag queens, and everyone who works there to give out. Every time we got a tip, we gave a bead away (well, one for each dollar) and we also gave out glo-sticks. It was SO much fun!! I have never had so much as a club -- and considering I was in Victoria's Secret women's underwear, that's really saying something. Yes, not even the fact that I spent ten minutes stretching out my underwear in the front to keep myself from being totally squashed could dull the Mardi Gras party!!

There are MILLIONS of pictures that people took. One particularly awesome thing? Among the tons of people who I met, there was one super hot guy by the name of Matthias. He's not famous, per say, but he's not unknown. And he had photographers with him -- and he made me take SO many pictures with him. It was like the paparazzi, I swear -- and I LOVED it. Even when the club closed, and half an hour later I came out into the empty parking lot and saw him and I went over to make sure he was okay and everything, flash flash flash, more pictures!!
Anyways, I will be adding pictures to this post when I get them and I will probably make another post that's all Mardi Gras photos.

PS. I wrote a new scene. :)

You can find more pictures of the Mardi Gras party at Jenny's website!

Not our pretty person of the week...

Yes, the guy in these pictures is GORGEOUS (:-P) but he is not our Pretty Person of the Week.
I'll post that later, after I sleep.
But I did want to show you these pictures of me that my friend Jenny took of me when she visited me at school yesterday.
By the way, I'm basically finished with my label-fixing. Only a few of them only appear once, and I can almost guarantee that they will be repeated in the future so I feel that that is okay. Anyways, look for the labels to be showing up on the side soon!!

Moving on: in my attempt to make this blog more friendly towards the readers, do you have any other suggestions of things you would like to see?

"If you didn't know then now you know!"

I am posting this now, mid-studying, because I have been waiting all day to get the pictures from this weekend but I think everyone else slept today. Must be nice. :-P

Anyhow, I am definitely going to put a number of the pictures up when I do get them (probably tomorrow night). It has been quite the weekend though, definitely.

First I had a very typical Friday. I worked at abercrombie from 8 am to 1 pm, and went back to campus. I was busy with random end-of-the-semester things, and hanging out with friends who I never get to see these days, and utterly forgot about the nap I was supposed to get before I went to work at the club.

This guy was there, James, who I had met (and given my number to) the weekend before. Let's backtrack a second and take a look at why in the hell I'd give out my number to someone I met while I was working: I was up on stage, it was getting towards the end of the night and this giant of a man -- total stud, but still, ginormously tall and built! Oh God is he built! -- and he politely goes "Can I dance with you?" in this totally gentlemanly way and of course I'm like "Yes!"
So then we danced together...and even though I was just in my underwear, he didn't let his hands wander to anywhere that the skeezy old guys let their hands wander. And he was just...he was just this huge gentleman, and it was great.

So he was at the club with a friend of his (Brad) on Friday too, and I danced with them at the end of the night. And then, yesterday, James and I went to Park City together. Then we went to dinner together.

Last night I had a couple options for what to do before going to the club. One was to go to this dance recital that our school's dance club puts on, and a lot of my friends were in it. The other was to go to the birthday party for my new friend Jenny, who I really only officially met (although we knew of each other for long before we met) a week or so ago. So I went to the birthday party, and I brought James along as my date.

We hung out in the hotel until we all had to vaminose (I don't know if that's a real word but it sounds like a foreign word for "go" so...I use it :-P) to the club. We got there, Mike and I got into our undies, and then we got up on stage while the rest of the party headed up to their V.I.P. balcony lounge (where Mike and I went for all our breaks).
A good time was had by all, much clothing was removed from various party-goers...and for some reason, the masses of unintelligent club-goers tipped some of the party-goers who weren't working -- even though they had pants on. As I said about four times "It's not hard. The people wearing pants aren't employees and should not be tipped. The people who aren't wearing pants should be tipped." Still, I think I made pretty good money.

We returned to the hotel around 2:30/3:00 am and we partied for a few more hours. I won't lie, I got a little bit drunk....fortunately, James was there to hold my attention so I wasn't too slutty -- that's always a risk when there's me and alcohol. He really is a gentleman and he cuddled with me all night, which kept me busy enough to not go into the whatever-was-going-on-in-the-other-room...they had the door shut.

Morning came and it was just James, Josh, Jenny, Neil, Scotty, Sean, and myself left. We cleaned up as best as we could (pretty good if I do say so myself!) and hit the road. I brought Scotty to the train station -- he needed to take the train to Exton, so he could meet a friend, then go to Philly to catch a flight back to Oregon. Yeah, I know, long way for a party but it was called "East Meets West" for a reason -- he and Jenny have birthdays near each other so it was a dual party, and apparently they had the Portland chapter of it last weekend.

Anywho...then I came to Etown and finally got to talk to Boy-Craig. We hadn't talked at all this week, I'd been busy and he'd been...well, busy. He's still indecisive, up-down-all-around...and honestly, I'm getting very tired of it. We'll hang out over winter break and whatever happens will happen but I expect that will be the end of it.
(I know you're rejoicing over that one, Johnna. Sometimes I get a kick in the butt from my own common sense. :-P)

And then the truly bad news hit home.
The head of our theater department here, who is sort of a father figure to many of us, myself included, recently had brain surgery on a benign tumor. Unfortunately, when they opened up his skull...they discovered things are a lot worse than they thought. It's my arch-nemesis back and attacking someone else close to me: cancer.
He's a stubborn guy, tough as nails, and he's going to kick it's ass, I'm sure. There's some people that nothing can touch...Muse, Jackie, for instance. I think that Sevy (as we call him) is one of those people.
But then again, I thought that about my grandfather and Jessee (or read about her here). Still, both of them put up a good, an amazing fight and I know that Sevy will at least manage to make us proud. He still has a sense of humor -- actually, it may have even improved from when he was healthy :-P -- and he's still going to be around for us. He's turning himself into a family man, not a professor, but the theater department is one of his kids and he's going to make sure we're taken care of too.
I think we're all a little in shock. We all thought everything was fine since the surgery, we'd thought it was just the benign tumor. This was just kind of slammed on us tonight.

Credit to Jenny for the pictures! More pictures of our amazing weekend can be found on her website!