Yesterday (Friday) was a funny one. As I mentioned in that last post (which was actually written earlier in the afternoon), I went out for a walk. Ran into Alison in the Worth courtyard and invited her along, after waiting for her to do some laundry and reading a bit of Coming of Age in Samoa in the sunshine. We both had somewhere to be 3:30, but we headed down into the crum, talking about laundry and trying to do that sort of awkward 'how are you' thing. I made a jokey reference to last year which she didn't appreciate, I'm not quite sure what to make about that. Dropped her off at Parrish (on time despite perhaps the long way around) and went to the lodge to call Jack and start moving drums. His friend with the car was Ariel, who I remember Corey had introduced me to last semester; we loaded it up, stopped by the barn, headed for Lang. I decided to leave them there, at least for the weekend; it looks like it might have to be after tomorrow's rehearsal too. Anyway; we played through stuff, it was fun enough, I didn't use the accordion.

Home then back out again after dinner (curry with Laurel and Alyssa) - to For Colored Girls, where though we were late we got second row seats because they just decided they were no longer reserved. I was fairly impressed with the production - nice performances especially from cutesy sexpot Katia and my erstwhile co-dancer Chelsea, Rajaa was strong and versatile; Maria (sorry, María)'s performance seemed forced at times, I wasn't quite sure what to make of Vicky's, although she certainly had emotion; - but more so with the play, which didn't bore me (except in a few places), didn't fall into cliches (except in a few places), and didn't go on for too long (although it could have ended a bit sooner.) I very much enjoy stuff like that when it is direct and narrative, but occasionally it veers too far into the poetic to be sustainably accessible for me at least. I definitely enjoyed it though. Afterwards, I invited Brigid upstairs to play for me, and surprisingly she agreed. She made it through some Joplin and Gershwin (falteringly, but better than I could have done if I hadn't been playing in years), and then we sightread a bunch of three-parts together. Afterwards, she commended me on my patience, but I love that stuff. Ben, if you read this, we need to get our two-piano on sometime like what.

I did a spot of practicing, but I wasn't really feeling it, so I left and walked over by Paces. There weren't many people there yet, so I read a while in parlors, then checked back. Still not much of a crowd (Wirzbick and cronies in flannel; sexual health counselors in sequined halter-tops), and I was not in the best of health, so I decided to head back home. Except that I was intercepted by Alyssa and Nori, dead set on partying; and I got swept up in the wake with Laurel and some other gals (Ellie and someone). Amazingly, ten minutes after I had been there, the party seemed to have literally tripled in size. I was there for maybe an hour and a half, enjoying it for the most part despite being annoyed at the music (which just made me want to DJ all the more) and lacking the energy or resources to find dance partners. Best was maybe a little bit at the start with Alex and Chloë, but then they took off. Lots of circling with Al and Laurel and Rebecca et al. Alyssa and I sat down through "Up in Here" and "Baby Got Back" (face it, folks, it's a bad song), and gradually rose up on the bench through "Whoomp." Then a set of unfunky "crowd-pleasing faves" ("500 Miles"?), with thankfully some Spice Girls, but I'd had enough.

Contrary to plan, since Joel was up for it, I stayed up as well for a while. We made it through about half a game of Scrabble mostly just talking about ruhlayshunshipz - in the 'math of an unpleasant awakening the other night about Sara (I dropped him off chez elle for tea before radio, only to find she had forgotten their date and was entertaining her, er, boyfriend). Marveled again at my proficiency last semester, tried to help Joel understand his own position with regard to this stuff, wondered what my future holds.

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