It's a Celebration!

No, folks, the birthday festivities will not go unreported. Worry not. I’m sitting on the stage downtown in the glorious sun, having just finished eating some ice cream from the newly opened Cold Stones. I slept a total of two hours. Why? Because last night was epic.

To begin the story at the beginning, yesterday afternoon I had a little birthday dinner for myself. There was delicious Indian food, seven lovely ladies and myself in a cute private room with Bollywood tunes playing in the background. Perfection. Dinner was relaxed and entertaining. After dinner, Nakia, Shakara and I took a little stroll along the pond near the restaurant before heading to our respective homes to get ready for the night ahead. Now three weeks ago, a dude with whom I have mutual friends announced he was having a toga party for his b-day. Sine I’m me and just don’t plan that far in advance, I realized I would be sharing my birthday celebration night, which was actually totally fine since I wasn’t planning on making the night on the town aspect of my b0day very planned. Now some of said mutual friends decided that, rather than wearing togas, they would interpret the ancient world theme rather loosely and dress as Spartans instead. More on this later.

So I headed downtown, met up with a couple of folks and got to dancing, as I tend to do. More and more people started to arrive at GoGo Party, but no Spartans. I live in the same building as the ringleader of the group, so I had received a preview, but I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone anything beforehand. Eventually they appeared. Nine dudes, wearing the following ensemble: black boxerbriefs, red capes, shinguards, shields, and spears. People just did not know what to make of them. Especially when they chanted and brandished their spears. At this point the bar was packed and people were dancing and limboing and generally doing it up right. At some point we switched locales, to Thursday Party and did eve more getting down. At 5 am, we left Thursday and parties went a few different directions, but mostly home. It was insanely late/early and I’d just danced long and hard, but I was feeling wonderful until I realized I didn’t have my camera. At first I was sure I’d left it in a cab that me and Shakara had gotten into and gotten out of and I was worried it was lost forever . Then I thought that it was probably still at Thursday and resolved to go get in the afternoon. Luckily, I thought, people tend to return stuff around here. I slept for maybe two hours in half hour chunks before giving up and being awake. Around noon I got a glorious call from a friend informing me that they had my camera, which was a huge relief. I showered up at hip hop class but since it is run and attended by the same folks who were out til all hours last night, we all agreed to forgo dancing for the day and went to eat instead. As the always sober one, it’s always fun to tell people what they did the night before and laugh as they don’t remember.

This brings us to where I began the entry. The others had their own business to attend to and I had to kill time before the theatre meeting so I got some ice cream and enjoyed the sun. The theatre meeting was sort of a meeting-audition hybrid. We’d picked two one act plays to perform and were trying out various roles. Casting isn’t final yet but I’m definitely going to be in one of them. I’m excited about getting back on stage. the last time I acted was maybe five years ago and even though I’ve performed on stages in various other ways in the interim, being in character is something I’m really out of practice doing, This weekend I’m writing for the 24 Hour Theatre Project, which is going to be fun as well as insane. Wish me luck!
Anyway, I went to bed super early Sunday in order to recuperate from the lack of sleep and only got unlazy enough to finish this entry now so here it is.

As for the music recommendation situation, I admit that I haven’t been listening to much kpop lately. the last while I’ve been listening to a few things over and over again (If you are interested, it’s this somewhat bizarre array of music: Vampire Weekend, Robin Thicke’s “Sex Therapy,” Chromeo, Nate Dog and Warren G’s “Regulate,” and Architecture in Helsinki). This has made me pretty useless in the recommending kpop category so I’ll hold off til I find something I can get enthusiastic about ‘round here. In the meantime, I shall spend my evening kickin’ it.

Love,
AAA