activities

ok, so yesterday: stayed up too late, and then it was raining whne i woke up. there was no way i was making it out of the house to go figure drawing. maybe next week. i did haul my ass out of bed to go to sacred harp sing. it was in evanston, in this big house (yes house, not apartment or condo but house) and the hostess was this CUTE girl, younger than me!! i guess she has, like 6 sisters. but she was the only singer. she was a tenor and wore short pants with tall boots and polkadotted knee socks and i was in love. however, we only had 4 people-t hat's one person per part! so i was BY MYSELF! it was kind of a mess, but about half way through her friend molly showed up- and she was just as cute as mary (are they a couple?) and she was a treble, too, and she had a powerful sacred harp voice- so it was PERFECT. i was so glad to sit and sing next to her, and i am a little in love with the north side singers, which is much better than a little embarrased like the south side singers made me. so i'm ready for singing with mom in two weeks.

when i got off the train on the way home, the devon st bus was right there, so i took it to the indian neighborhood on the spur of the moment. i bought some instant indian meals, and a 10# bag of rice, and dinner at my fave indian vegetarian fast food place. i figured out the problem isn't that i don't know indian food, it's that the sign is awful- unclear, and full of spelling errors. i think they had panir as like, puni. anyway, i love it. the special is $5 and it's enough food for 2 meals for me. it's this whole bag full of mysterious little containers: a soupy dahl (this one had eggplant in it) a chapati and a roti (breads), a tub of rice, a nasty hot spicy thing i threw away (the pickle, perhaps?) a very mysterious spongy yellow thing with jalepanoes, sweet and spicy (i have no idea what it was), then "salad" of tomatoes and onions, the BEST raita (sweet yogurt with bits of crunchy chickpeas and parsley) ever, and 2 vegetables. i picked aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower) and mutter panir (peas and cheese).
isn't that a lot of little containers for $5? oh, and a sweet, too! i didnt' like my sweet this time (it was hot pink and chewy) but it is perfect, cheap and ymmy and oh so spicy!

and by then it was time to hear kate peterson! i love that i can walk down the street to the speakeasy. and all the little lesbian folk singers seem to play there. what more could you ask for? as a band, i really liked anxious but excited together- i am such a sucker for interesting harmonies. and a madolin is a sure way to my heart. after the show, i couldn't really leave without saying hello to kate, but she came over to ME and said, you're caitlin, aren't you? and i'm like, yeah... and she says, is it wierd that i know that? and i'm like, yeah... she said she saw my comments on leah's myspace page, so when i came in and she didn't know me, she figured that's who i must be! charming. so though i'm not really in the loop, i am still holding on to the edges with my feet dangling...

but wait, there's more! came home from work today and ate the rest of my leftovers, because gay square dancing was tonight! at work today joe stopped by for lunch, and we invited him along, too. so ch, hugo, joe and i made quite a square dance posse. i wore the purple dress i made that i wore to dance at my mom's wedding, and of course my pink cowgirl hat. no one else dressed up, but that's ok. i'm used to being the only one. the learning curve was REALLY low, and everyone was very friendly. so there was no preassure, and i came off looking really good, because the moves were so simple and i've done contra dancing before, and it's very similar. i wish i could stop comparing it to contra, beacuse i think that's more fun to do, but there's no gay contra league in andersonville, and i would rather do the squares if that's the case! everyone else said they had a good time and they'll come back next week, so that makes me very excited.

just went to the grocery store, cause i'm hungry though, and bought CRAP. then i posted another ad on craigslist, cause you know i can't get enough. fresh blood, cackles the vampiress. so now i'm going to read my novel and eat my doritos and chocolate ice cream and hopefully get to bed in time to get something done tomorrow!