Saturday 3/8, I got up a little before 8 and started getting ready for the day and rolled out right on time. Susan met me downstairs because D was still sleeping and we set out immediately. We walked all the way downtown and it only took us like 15 or 20 minutes and we were way ahead of schedule so we decided to walk down to the market for fresh warm donuts. The bfs weren’t there but we got a dozen anyway. There was a guy Susan had her eye on and she was trying to pawn off the oaf-y friend on me. No thanks. We walked back up toward the theater eating donuts the whole way. Well, I ate donuts the whole way. 7 to be exact. We got tickets for our 10:15 showing of Penelope and snagged some good seats. I was really excited about James McAvoy and was pleasantly surprised that the rest of the movie was pretty good too. After the movie we headed back down to the market to 3 Sisters for lunch. I got the special (Santa Barbara) and Susan got her eggy breakfast sandwich. Mine came with pasta salad that I ate almost all of and I took down the entire sandwich. We people-watched and counted how many people were wearing North Face. We walked down the alley and I flirted with the apple sample guy and he even offered me a bigger slice then the fish guy was flirting so it was all very stimulating and ego-boosting. We decided to do another walk by of the donut stand and Susan’s bf still wasn’t working. We started walking back but decided to stop in Ross where we tried on shoes and I got some yellowy-orange Asics that were hella cheap. Susan got some Diesels. We both wished they’d had the red in our size. Next we walked to Specialties but before we got there a 206 number came in and I knew it would be M so I didn’t answer and sure as shit he left a message and Susan was impressed I knew it was him. I think he wanted to get together that night but I wasn’t prepared for that. We finished walking up to the bakery and each got a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie and started the walk back up the Hill. It took us a while but we had plenty to talk about and the sun was out. We were so exhausted by the time we got back (around 2:30) we decided to lay down for a little bit and enjoy our little bit of sunshiny vacation. I checked myspace before that and Eric had written me a short message saying what’s up so I wrote him back and told him we should hang soon. We laid on Susan’s bed for a while talking and closing our eyes and enjoying the breeze and it felt sooo good to be off my feet. A little while later we decided to go to Goodwill and I really scored with the stoneware with two green and two yellow bowls, 3 mugs and two other little cute bowls. Plus a workout video to mix things up. Chrystol called to see if we were going to the Harborrats and to inquire about Jacques the Ripper’s walking accessories. We decided to try our luck at the Salvation Army where I scored two more stoneware bowls (blue). We went back up to Susan’s and I left to try and nap and to get ready for the evening. I didn’t actually fall asleep but I rested a bit then did some laundry and got ready for the evening. Schuyler confirmed the address and that Brandon would be there with his new gf. I just laughed at this because I wasn’t surprised at all, but really? Really Brandon? Less than two months after you were trying to woo me back? I guess so. At least he didn’t meet her on the net. I left my house and made it to Susan’s and we took off from there with Damon in tow to drop him off at home, then made our way over to the U-District for the house party. We found parking but had no idea if the house we were at was the house with the party, despite the telltale signs of Christmas lights and tons of people inside. We saw Mulally down the street a bit but didn’t want to ask them so I called Chrystol and Schuyler to see where they were at and as I was hanging up the band was going back in and Chris stopped to ask if we were going in and said we looked beautiful, well, he clarified, we always look beautiful but especially tonight and touched Susan on the arm. There was no eye-fucking, but a compliment and arm-touch ranks pretty high. We told him to keep the compliments coming throughout the evening. When inside we spotted Sam right away and he was talking to some guy who introduced himself as Nick. We all talked for a while then moved into the kitchen so I could get some water. Sam and Nick eventually followed suit and we talked intermittently with both of them. Nick was being a little flirty but I didn’t think much of it because it was just talking and soon Brandon appeared through the kitchen door and I just laughed and was like “Hey!” really sarcastically and he introduced himself to Sam then introduced his gf to all of us and I was nice to her but it was just funny. She looked old so I was shocked to learn she was only 28. He asked where Schuyler and Chrystol were so I told him they were on their way and Sam was still mad he hadn’t been invited to the benefit. Mulally left and right before walking out the door he was like “Bye pretty girls” so we waved and off they went. A little while longer C & S walked through the door and I squealed but B intercepted and hogged them. Chrystol and Eric made their way past us to sit at the little booth and before I could even THINK of sitting down to join them B and gf filed past and sat down. I looked at Schuyler with my jaw on the floor and said “He totally just salted my game!” Eventually we moved into the living room and watched the boys set up but made a trip to the bathroom after not too long and it was surprisingly clean. Nick came and talked to me again in the living room and was asking me all kinds of questions but eventually moved on and the Harborrats went on. Earlier Sam had alluded to bringing back one of the Bowie covers and I was really excited and also told him they should cover Joan Jett’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah!)” and he told me that he’s still working on Queen’s “Somebody to Love” which I was shocked he remembered. So back to the show, they started playing and I really like Blue Eye Shadow and Artificial Chocolate is pretty good too but I was really happy they played “Young Americans” and sang along with all of it. I expected Chrystol and Eric to come out when they started but they didn’t which really shocked me and I was thinking “This is so not like Chrystol to miss Schuyler playing” but after the second song out they came so I was relieved. There was so much stomping and dancing that the piano was rocking back and forth and the drinks were sloshing all over the place so Eric, Chrystol and I held it in place. C and E were playing with the cat harness and leash and Eric held up the harness and looked at me suggestively and I laughed and looked back at him coyly. Nick played on a couple songs and it was kind of hot but I was having more fun throwing side glances at Eric. I’d figured Brandon had snuck out the back door but I was wrong and during the last song they emerged, didn’t even wave to Schuyler, gave me a head nod and walked out. I thought it was really rude, but hey, that’s Brandon! Why the hell did he come, to sit in the kitchen and talk to his gf and not watch his friend who he hasn’t seen in forever? Who knows. After the show the four of us (C, E, S and me) were standing around talking about Nick’s friend who had been taking pictures of girls’ cleavage during the show, so that was weird. So we’re all talking and Nick hands me his phone and says to talk to whoever is on the other end and after quite a bit of hemming and hawing I do it, with everyone staring at me. It’s some girl from CO, his friend, and she tells me he thinks I’m pretty and wants to ask me out but wanted to do it differently. I exclaimed “Well, this is different!” and mouthed to Susan “Oh my god” because I felt so put on the spot and mortified. I couldn’t even see Nick’s face because he was next to me plus I didn’t want to see him. Ugghh. She also said something else very shocking but I’m not writing it. It will be permanently etched in my brain. So I hand the phone back and he’s like “I don’t know what she wanted to talk to you about” and I go “I think ya do” and gave him a look, so then he looked all sheepish and walked away with his phone a few seconds later. I probably would have said yes if Eric hadn’t been standing there, but I like him more than this guy so I wasn’t about to say yes in front of him. So then the friend stands there watching me freak out to the group and me and Chrystol asking Eric if it’s ok for me to pretend he’s my bf. He didn’t seem thrilled but I decided against it anyway because if him and Sam are friends then he’d probably know anyway if he asked Sam and then I’d be a liar. Chrystol finished a story but I still felt really bad and awkward so I asked if I should flee and C said yes so Susan and I booked it out of there and back to the car. I could tell she was ready to go anyway so we called it a night. We discussed my options on the way back to her house then I took off right away. Susan called me on my way home to tell me it wasn’t Damon’s window that we’d seen the light on in and I told her my plans to track down Nick’s number to apologize because I felt really bad. Then Chrystol beeped in to fill me in on what had transpired after I left involving her telling Sam the story and Sam defending our honor. I told C I didn’t want to say yes to Nick in front of Eric then quickly asked if it was on speakerphone because that would have been awkward. It wasn’t and she asked what I was doing the next day and to call her after brunch to possibly hang out. Yes! Her and Eric were putting the harness on the cat and cracking up because it totally didn’t phase her. At home I wrote to Sam because I was embarrassed that I’d run instead of just giving him a straight answer. The guy went out on a limb and I totally blew him off, so I wrote to Sam, caught the tail end of SNL and went to sleep.

Friday 3/7, Finally got a text from Erik saying his phone’s been dead and he’ll be gone over the weekend. I got off work early and Ian called me not too long after I’d started lounging. I was so tired and he sensed it in my voice. We talked for a while and I asked him my two questions (shirt and April visit) and he thanked me for the cd and it was just really nice to talk to him. It feels like it’s been forever. I talked to Susan and we made our plans for the next day then made dinner. Relaxed all evening and went to bed by 10:30 because I was exhausted.

Thursday 3/6, I got home a little early and tried to nap but didn’t, though I did manage to get some resting time in before another long night out. Michael sent me a message earlier in the day, as well as Kyle, saying he’d be out and wanting to know what I was doing beforehand. Chrystol and I were planning to attend the art walk, but more specifically the first gallery show of my favorite artist. I got ready, talked to Chrystol, ate some vegetables and toast, texted Erik to see if he would be there and headed out at right about 7. When I got to their house Schuyler scared the crap out of me and chuckled when I shrieked. We started talking about the night before and I told C that my bf wanted a copy of the picture so we got down to uploading, looking at and sending pictures. We were all howling looking at all the ones of Paul and I couldn’t stop pointing out my bf in the background of all the pictures. I told her how he was at the Sunset show and she realized she’d actually talked to him at that show and never would have guessed it was the same person. Cuh-razy! It was a lot of fun and we talked about stalking tactics and eventually looked through a TON of my, Susan’s and Kay-See’s flickr pictures. Eventually we ended up in the living room (clearly having missed our opportunity to attend the gallery showing) and started talking about my and Erik’s date on Sunday and how C almost called me to go to the SAM with her, S and Eric and I was so bummed she didn’t. It’s ok though, I probably wouldn’t have been on top of my game and I was still exhausted from the day before. That was fun but I could tell they were tired so I said bye and headed up toward CH and was talking to Susan when Michael called and asked if I’d gone to the art walk and when I told him no and that I’d been uploading pictures onto the internet he was like “Porn huh?” so I laughed and said sure. He was already there with a friend and wanted to know when we’d be there so I called Susan back and asked if she wanted to go earlier. We met up at the spots a few minutes later and were met with a security wand rub down that had us both rolling our eyes. We headed straight upstairs and found Michael and chatted there for a few then back downstairs to check coats and we practiced some dance moves, met his friend and laughed when Michael looked very confused before attempting a crass joke. Susan and I headed out to dance and Michael joined us eventually so we danced and danced until some bad songs were played and we went to stand by the pillar. Some guy asked us to come over and join him and his lesbian friend but we politely declined. We made it back to the floor and saw Kyle come in so I waved and eventually him, Richie, Ersi and Rachel joined us for dancing. Richie told me about some model he’s seeing and I told him about Erik. I saw Andrew so I went to get the bottom line on Brian. He’s got a gf and A wouldn’t stop saying that I’m out of his league then asked me about his cellist who I said was too vanilla for me then told him my Queen idea. Back on the floor we danced a little more then decided it was time to go home. Said bye to Michael who said the real reason I was going home was to watch porn. I said bye to Max who asked if I still wanted to go out sometime so I told him sure, not really meaning it, so he asks how to get a hold of me and I’m like “Fuuuck” so I give him my phone number and extremely regret it. I should have asked for his number but I just don’t think very quickly on my feet. On the way out we said bye to Ky and booked it to the cars. We stayed longer than we thought we would but left earlier than usual.

Wednesday 3/5, I talked to Susan and made plans for the evening’s events. I believe I showered and ate dinner then headed over to her house. We hung there and watched ANTM and ate delicious (bright green for me!) ice cream then headed over to the Comet. We parked a few blocks away, walked over, saw Chrystol and walked to her car with her and reheard the story about A and his state at the Sunset the week prior. Apparently Susan’s seen the dribble before. Inside the club it was packed and no one had gone on yet so we migrated toward Schuyler and Dre and parked ourselves by the pool table and avoided being in the way. There was a crazy line up and I liked just about every band. There were all these guys wearing tight spandex and makeup and no shirts and sparkly shirts and boots with wedge heels. It was magical. Going into the night I didn’t know how many T-Rex songs I would know but surprisingly more than I expected. Due mostly to the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. There was one group of guys that both Susan and I had our eye on ALL night. The one without a shirt with the suspenders and leather pants I was totally enamored of and kept taking pictures of without his knowledge. There was one guy creeping both Susan and I out who just kept staring at us then went over to his gf and we were both baffled. Weeeeird. Plus he had a wicked bald spot. I took a picture of Schuyler wearing his new shades and I commented that he looked like a white Kanye West. Some guy was enamored with Susan and swept her off her feet and outside to get to know her a little better. During this time my suspenders-wearing bf walked by and I eyed him up and down (not discreetly) then said “Hel-LO!” and he totally stopped and was like “Hey!” and I told him he was the hottest guy there then he said he wasn’t a guy and was breaking the law then Chrystol asked if she could take a picture of us and he was all over it so that was fun. We introduced ourselves and he’s Brian and offered to buy us drinks but we said we were ok, he left and we giggled and looked at the picture. Andrew walked by so I asked to see the line up and he said the hot boys were going on next and that one of them was his drummer and after telling me the one without a shirt, it didn’t even register that he was talking about Brian. Next Sam threw something from above so I took a picture with him and a girl and the lead singer from the first Bowie band, whose makeup and furry boots I loved. He came down and I got a picture with him but he looks super depressed in it; I just look super crazy. Us girls were cracking up at the band on stage’s drummer, who had the craziest beard I’ve ever seen. We all thought it was a scarf, but no, just facial hair wrapping around his chin and neck. Thank god Chrystol got a picture. I liked the bassist because before they went on he said hi to me and was very friendly. I got a fantastic picture of Susan’s spandex clad bf’s ass that I knew she would thank me abundantly for. She came back in from her rendezvous and informed us her suitor was 24, alright Susan! Pretty soon our bfs’ band went on and they were very good and I also got a lot of pictures to try and capture their magnificence. After them Susan took off with her bf again and my bf came and talked to me again after some coaxing from Schuyler. He gave me a pin and we talked quite a bit more and he told me they didn’t have any shows coming up because they’re trying to finish their album and chatted about other things I’m sure then I told him it was nice to meet him again and he left. I went to get some water and this guy almost high-kicked me and this other guy was like “That was so close!” and he was cute so I smiled and was like “I know!” then made it over to the water jug. Some guy over there got me a glass of it and I headed back to the girls and we continued giggling about boys and I ended up talking to Andrew again, though I don’t remember what about. The Hammers were really good and I loved the “Bang the Gong” song and the sax player. Earlier I also loved the band with the guy who played the guitar behind his head. Andrew told me their name (twice) but I forget. I found another bf playing pool and nicknamed him my Unabomber bf because he was wearing sunglasses and his hood up. His friend kept asking me to move because I was in the way of him taking shot after shot. I got some more water and noticed a hot tall bearded redhead come in though Susan hated him because of his North Face jacket. DP was up and they were ok, just really hectic and people falling all over the place. Susan and I were standing next to Brian and hot red spandex guy and were talking about the HR show the week before and how he was there and he thought they were good and that he used to take drum lessons from Isaac. Before the HR he was showing us stripper moves and told me I should send him the picture of me and him on myspace and how we’re both pretty good net stalkers, but not the scary kind. For the HR set we went and stood next to Chrystol and Dre and I sang along with 3 of the 4 Bowie songs and they definitely did them justice. Especially Young Americans complete with bomb-ass sax. There was dancing and singing and lots of fog. It was really fun. Plus I had a nice view of my Bowiefriend from there. After the set we were all trying to coordinate and saying bye and I wanted to talk to my bf one more time before leaving so we said bye to all the boys and Susan blew off her bf who wanted her number and I gave one final goodbye and told my bf that I’d find him on the net. We said bye to the girls and took off for the car. I left from her house and by the time I got home it was like, um, 1:30? Maybe later?