birthday celebrations happened thursday. excellent times were had by all. well, maybe not all, but by me at least. a couple of my close friends met for dinner downtown, and from there we went out drinking. we started at the dixie, not because i'm especially fond of it, but because thursday nights are ladies nights which means no cover and cheap drinks. we stayed there for two or three drinks before we decided to go to slaughter's. cheap drinks, good dance music, and no sleazy guys hitting on me. what's not to love about that? i sort of lost track of how long we were there, as i was pretty toasted by the time we left. but then i got a great idea: we should go to the strip club!
stefany, amanda and i had never been, so i decided it was time. from the gay club to the strip club.... so so weird. but we had a good time. i, of course, couldn't stop laughing. struck up a conversation with one of the strippers, and she told me she made $560 the night before. on a wednesday. that'd be two months worth of student loan payments. damn.
after that we decided it was time to call it a night, so we started walking back to the car. right on the corner by slaughters or dixie's is a club called noche and next to it is a place called the amazon. when we were walking by the bouncer said he wouldn't charge us cover if we went in. in my drunken stupor i knew that this is the club where they do salsa dancing some nights. so, i told the bouncer i'd go in only if they would play salsa and i had a good lead. he told me to go find the guy tending the bar with the hat on, because he was the owner and he would dance salsa with me. so we go it, and it's a cute little place. sure enough, there's this older looking latino man behind the bar with a panama hat on. i walk up and say "it's my birthday, and i want to dance salsa. i need a lead, and the bouncer told me to talk to you." so he told the DJ to put on some salsa and took me out onto the floor. i haven't danced salsa since i was in Ecuador, so over a year now... I totally miss it.
friday nights at 9pm they do salsa lessons and dancing. i'm hooked.
so the next day i woke up sick. not hung over, but sick. sinus cold thing. suck.
and now... my next set of orders don't start until the first week of october, so i've got the whole month to just kick it. i'll still be at the gap some nights during the week, but during the day, i've got nothing. sweet.
i'm slowly working on formulating a plan for my life. or at least the next part. including, but not limited to, some form of further education. i'm already missing school. or at least learning. perhaps the east coast is in order.... we'll see.
now i shall go occupy my time with something useful. or not.
-xo-
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