Yesterday, Nathan and I prepared ourselves for a birthday party. One of the women that I worked with for I-Rise - Tara - had her thirtieth and the theme was "Eurotrash." It was in Cookies, which is essentially the same building as O'Henry's. We walked into O'Henry's, wearing two pretty trashy outfits. Nathan's included a cutoff shirt with 80's graphics and a crazy little necklace with big neon plastic beads. I was wearing silver stilettos and a blinding sweatshirt the color of a yellow highlighter. All of the townies turned their heads and stared at us, as if to say, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Cookies was not open. So we left.

Not knowing what to do with ourselves, we meandered over to Scandals (which, aside from working on P.U.S.H., it was my first trip to the club), where we were the only patrons there. The dance music was blaring. We enclosed ourselves in a corner until they started doing Trivia Night. We called ourselves "The Future" and didn't do very well at trivia. I did, however, win a free pass to Scandals and a $5.00 gift certificate to Tripp's, a pretty terrible restaurant.

Josh called me later to tell me that Tara's party had been moved to Smokey's because Cookies wasn't open. He also said that the party was ending at that point and that no one had shown because the weather was bad. So we didn't really miss much.

After Trivia, we stuck around for a bit because we wanted to see the drag show. It was an "Anti-Christmas" thing, and the drag queens basically came out dressed up in not very impressive costumes, performing songs they didn't know. I would not even be surprised if they didn't know beforehand what they were performing. Anyway, the audience was not impressed. One of the drag queens snubbed us for not giving her dollars. But I'm sorry - I don't give dollars to drag queens that do not entertain me.

Today we spent a bit of time with Emily. We met her for lunch at Laughing Seed and then she made us dinner later. So much good food. I've really felt good spending time with Emily these past few days. It makes me feel bad that I haven't allowed myself this time. Now it's like she might be moving away soon and I have let our time together pass by.

I also had my meeting with Dr. Kelley and Dr. Betsalel today. We talked about what this project is going to entail a little bit more concretely. I'm really excited about working with them. I'm particularly interested in working with Dr. Kelley, because I feel like she and I have a lot of similar goals when it comes to ethnographic methods and whatnot. I am going to be spending a lot of my summer in Asheville as a result of this internshipprojectthing. Which means - I would like people to come to me this summer. Hahaha. Just kidding.

Okay. I'm exhausted. I would/could write more, but I'm tired.