reunion

damn good thing i went. thanks, gemmi_1 and others, for the encouragement.

friday night was good times. not so many people there, but a fairly high concentration of people i like. shannon, emily, judy and i - we studied abroad in senegal together - reunited. they are amazing women. we went to the huke lau (cheezy hawaiian themed bar) and drank and sang karaoke. emily and i slaughtered holding out for a hero. it was so good just to be with them.

today was the alumnae parade, picnic, hanging out at the queer house.

an observation about my college friends: they are hot. seriously good lookin' ladies. no wonder i miss mhc so much. there is not such a high concentration of babes in the public at large. they are also smart, witty, funny and have all their politics in the right place.

see, i knew the hard part about reunion would be the leaving again. a brief reminder of how good we had it, then we all have to leave it behind again. it was interesting... there was a higher level of honesty this time than at the two year... we could really talk about what mhc meant to us and how much we miss it. we weren't trying to prove how we were moving on in the world. it was nice to just admit how much we miss life there and how damned lucky we were to have spent four years there and to have known each other.

yeah, i love my alma mater. and the suckiness of grad school just brought that home even more clearly. i wish every woman could know the wonder that is mount holyoke. sounds melodramatic and cheezy, but it's heartfelt.

i have a little more thinking to do about all this... but it's late and i got to get to church in the a.m.

churchy

yeah... not looking forward to work this morning. high tension service with a guest organist i will have signal every time she has to play and the solo song i agreed to accompany even though i hate playing piano in public. and the sermon is about sexuality and spirituality. which could be interesting... could be boring (cuz her sermons usually are)... or could be offensive and disturbing and make me squirm in my seat... at least that would keep me awake.

the stunned faces on my lesbian school friends every time i said i work in a church were pretty much priceless. then they would sigh in relief when i qualified the statement with, "oh, a uu church."

i just wanted to say one thing before i make up my rehearsal plan... BILLY! yeah, needed to say that. i've been on this tobey kick for a while and i'm enjoying it but... billy is da man. looking at pics on-line before bed last night... sigh. love him.

moving sucks

i'm always startled to see my name in someone else's entry. it's hard to believe people actually read my babble... and then come to find i've periphally influenced someone's dream... hmmm.... well, that's fun.

so, the music in church today went smashingly well, if i do say so myself. which i just did. the ubi caritas was stunning and i managed to accompany the schubert solo without screwing up too noticably. the sermon was about as boring as i expected it to be. ho hum. amazing that that woman can even make sex boring.

picked up the keys to the new apartment this afternoon. so very exciting. went to home depot for supplies for the painting party on wednesday. also went to toy store to buy a twister game for the same event. heh heh. saw the cave troll toy on clearance. nasty.

rl is definitely closing in here. we have to be painted and packed by saturday. once we move, i will have only a dial up connection for a whole month before we can get dsl again. meh! the thought horrifies me. it'll be like back when i first discovered slash and no one could get through to us on the phone bc i was on-line for hours and hours.

whoa. chloe (my kitty) is going wacko. she's running from room to room, up on the furniture and down again. psycho kitty!