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Thanks everyone for the suggestions re. cat names. What happened was that suddenly it was no problem thinking "Gigi" when I looked at her & now that's what she is officially called. Except her gangsta name is The Notorious G.I.G. & her middle name is Maple.
So anyway.
Last nite we were supposed to go to this restaurant/film screening place in Williamsburg but they pushed back the opening so after dinner we ended up at Sweetwater, where the summertime drink is iced Rosé & everybody was sitting round the bar drinking it from wine glasses or highballs or whatever else was available. Then it turned out Laura knew about this party in Greenpoint that was supposed to have DJs & foam. I was half-terrified by the implications of what this meant & rightfully so; when we arrived there wasn't any foam but there was a zebra-striped floor & a $5 cover & lots of fun old hip hop & all the hipsters were out on the dance floor in their scary best. It felt funny to be out on a Wednesday nite to a place that made you pay a cover & gave you a wristband & stamped your hand & sent you thru a velvet rope up the stairs & into a room with a smoke machine & big red hanging lights that I thought looked like peppermints but reminded Ryan more of mushroom caps.
I might have imagined the velvet rope part. But you get the picture. At first it was fun & then it was funny & then we were dying to leave.
So we ended up at the Pencil Factory, where we didn't feel nearly as old & where we didn't hate everyone quite so much. Not only that but there were no pasty male hipster douchebags in wifebeaters with leather short shorts, so that was a major bonus. For sure!