goddess it's been cold in chicago this weekend, but it hasn't stopped me! friday night i got the dsl all hooked up and started downloading all that music i've been missing. booty persuaded hugo and ch to go out, so i got dressed up and met them. booty was driving, and he was all, where do you wanna go, caitlin? atmosphere? stargaze? ch suggested t's, so that's where we went. it was ok, it's such a nice bar, and there were girls there, but only in big groups. booty kept talking about which ones i liked and which i was gonna go pick up, but i couldn't do it- i couldn't talk to strangers who were with their friends when i was with my friends. i was a little disapointed in myself, i can give lip service to this whole new slut thing, but i can't really do anythign about it, etc. but i had fun with booty and the loverboys. we left t's pretty quickly to go to clarks on clark, which is the nastiest bar, filled with the same old drunk belgerent men. whatever. at least the preasure was off me.
so then yestereday was worldwide knit in public day! i went to millenium park and found the kntters and they were all sorts of nice, working on fun and funky projects. i really should find a knitting group to go to. i think it would be good to knint with others instead of just in the privacy of my own home and train car. i knit for a couple of hours, and then got my rainbow cone- it's their 80th birthday, a southside tradition- chocolate, strawberry, palmer house (which i think is almond and cherry), pistachio and orange sherbet. to celebrate the opening of the grill at millenium park they were a quarter yesterday. how i love time out chicago. two awesome activites i would have never heard about otherwise. walking to the searstower to get ashley flowers for her party, i decided my goal this summer is going to be to do one TOC activity per week. i'm having crazy fun here in my city since i got back from pa, you may have noticed. my line is, i have no homework- sure, i'll do it ! whatever it is, i'm up for it!
so ashley's birthday party... it was again ch and hugo and booty and i, and then joe and his friend andy were there, and then ashely of course and it was at her girlfriend carrie's house. that was all the people i knew. and there were dykes there! cute dykes! real, live, cute, drama filled, chicago dwelling dykes! and they were sitting by the food! so i of course diched my bear friends on the back porch and made new friends. there's mauria, who's just graduated from northwestern and is looking for jobs in hospitals, dani, who has a petable fuzzy head and teaches k-2nd graders, and gina, who's goes out with dani on the weekends because her girlfriend works 80 hrs a week and they only see each other when brushing their teeth. and THEN i spotted the girl with the blond mohawk i wanted to meet so badly when l was in town and all of her friends were going to t's. it turns out she had just gotten the haircut that day, so it wasn't the same girl. which is even better- that means there are 2 of them in the city! when i went out to the kitchen to refill my drink, booty's like, you didn't know those girls before, did you? he was so impressed with me, i felt amazing! i can flirt! i can make friends! and there are people in chicago worth flirting and making friends with!
but that's all for now- i have to go meet ch to go to midsommer fest and buy my garden!
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