Monday, August 6, 2007

Well, I am currently sitting at home waiting on maintenance to arrive at my apartment. Apparently, shortly before my alarm went off this morning, a heavy band of rain came through the area, and the ceiling in my entrance hallway decided it wasn't going to take it anymore! It hasn't fallen in (yet), but it has this giant lump in it that kinda looks like a breast. It is no longer dripping at least, but I decided I'd rather stay home and be here if it breaks. Plus, I can get so much work done from home. I wish I could just sit here all the time!

The weekend was pretty eventful/uneventful. Friday was Blanch's birthday, and while we did not end up getting the Chicken Limo (thank god...), we ended up going to a small restaurant here in town that serves Mediterranean food, which is basically some Italian, Greek, and Egyptian. It is called Luxor, and it is a great little restaurant..though the service is a bit slow. The best part about it is that on Friday and Saturdays they have a little show comprised of dance styles from the different regions the restaurant serves. It is just a very fun atmosphere, and this is the second year in a row we've gone for his birthday.

I ate SO much. I felt like I was bloated the entire night, which is always fun when you're wearing a muscle shirt to a gay bar. After dinner, we went to Metro for a few cocktails, and then we went to Greg's to watch some country line dancing and then, surprisingly, dance (my friends haven't done this in a group for years!). The line dancing is pretty entertaining to watch. I guess it kind of codifies people's notions that Indiana is full of hicks, but heck, there is also a bar in Chicago that has line dancing. So, it cannot be all that bad. Anyway, there is just something funny about watching two men or women two stepping and waltzing around a dance floor. Maybe it is some sort of latent homophobia on my part, but it just makes me chuckle. You really haven't lived until you've seen to women two step to "Stand By Your Man." The group dances are pretty entertaining soon, though they all seem like they derived from the Electric Slide. Of course, there are also some questionable choices in music. The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" and Cher's "Jesse James" are as far from Country as I am, but they certainly make for some interesting dances and sing-a-longs.

Saturday I did the usual chores like laundry, and then at 4:30, I had to be at Victory Field, which is the local baseball stadium, for a concert. It was with Collective Soul, Live, and Counting Crows. Bands that really haven't had a hit since the mid 90's. Counting Crows people contacted local not-for-profits to offer them booth space, and where I work, a domestic violence shelter, took them up on the offer. There were only two groups there, and the other was Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, which I have to say is a much more spritely group to have at a concert. Plus, concert goers like this tend to have more of an environmental bent to them. It was kinda funny to watch people smiling big then catching a glimpse of us and our material, realizing what we do, then looking rather conflicted, and then their smiles collapsing. I guess battered women are a beer buzz kill. What a crowd it was! It was general admission, which always leads to a stampede of people at the beginning. Of course, you had the shirtless "RAWKERS!" (devil horns up, dude) walking around with a beer in their hands and mullets fluttering in the breeze, but you also had young people, who were barely alive when these bands had hits. Of course, then you had my generation that was in college during their heyday, and they were walking around with their babies strapped to them or in strollers. Now, I ask you, when you have grown people walking around with ear plugs, why would someone in their right mind bring a baby to a concert? Seriously, if you have to walk around with your hands over your baby's ears, don't you think it would have been better to get a freakin' babysitter? I also found it funny that when the third group didn't show up, they moved their table and then brought two beer booths to put right next us. Yeah, loved it when some dude came up to me to ask where the liquor was, and I just sort of looked to my right. Drunk ass idiot...

Well anyway, that was about it for the weekend. I'm still here waiting on maintenance, and I'll probably head into work here in a bit. Since it isn't raining anymore, I am sure the ceiling is going to dry out on it's own. I just hope they don't leave the ceiling tit there. It looks kinda trashy. Oh, another development was a friend of Tyler's contacting me through MySpace. She's been giving me advice on the whole situation. I'm not sure where this is going...