hello hello. it’s 2:30 a.m. and we have just arrived “home” from ground zero. it was fantastic to be there again, and see the people who showed up to see us. yay! and now i will report:

holy shit. what happened to thursday nights???? there were many ugly people and tourists. what’s up with that? the place was pretty dead, too. but the music was great. we were especially happy with the closing song, an old favorite: my life with the thrill kill kult’s “sex on wheels.” yay! it was really really nice to have such a large dance floor with people who moved around on it and made way if i take up space, which i always do. it is always a little disappointing dancing in maastricht’s backstage club. (see post about gothic line dancing.) but even besides the line-dancing, the space just isn’t very nice. ground zero has a wonderful space for me. always plenty of room, and you can always just tell any frat-boy tourists who stand there with beers to get the fuck out of the way. (no, that wasn’t necessary tonight.)

so, what did we do all day?

breakfast at coffee news cafe in st. paul with ceese, delaney and lucas (family). then went and saw hitchhiker’s guide with ceese and bob. we enjoyed it. i get the complaints, but it was still fun. a little shopping, then home to rest, and for me: practice with my dummy knife. then i went to cornerstone while matt napped. but mike got stuck in traffic, so i was hanging around until james showed up, and he showed me something vaguely interesting he learned in a recent double-dagger workshop. then mike showed up, asked james to put on padding, and gave me a big practice knife. james’ job: to try to grab me. my job: to slash at james and yell “get away from me, motherfucker!” at the top of my lungs. actually, it was so funny trying to scream at a friend that i did a great deal of laughing. oh well. i’ll be there again tomorrow and maybe i’ll do better.

then i dropped off the bike for maintenance at motoprimo, and jarrin picked me up in his fun jeep wrangler. jarrin has cute blue dreads now, and we were very colorful with our multi-colors flying in the wind on the highway. we met up with matt, andrue and jessica at loring pasta bar, and travis then later jen and chris duden joined us. we enjoyed some food and lots of drinks. (yay, the land of proper cocktails i don’t have to make myself!!)

after the pasta bar, matt, travis, andrue and i headed over to ground zero. i had a second of whoops!! didn’t recognize jeff and zhac standing there in PLAIN SIGHT. heh heh. walked right past them. (sorry, darlin’s!!) but they were wonderfully sweet about it and didn’t tease me at all. details aside, we also got to see and dance with steve and alis. we saw a few other people we kind of know, but not so well, so apologies if anyone noticed. 🙂

zhac, baby-o, i promised you mike’s class schedule. here it is:

every day: private lessons 4-5. monday: 5-6 silat, 6-7 kickboxing, 7-8 JKD. tuesday: 5-6 boxing, 6-7 kali, 7-8 grappling. wednesday: 5-6 kali/ pekiti tirsia, 6-7 kickboxing, 7-8 JKD. thursday: 5-6 trapping/wing chun, 6-7 kali, 7-8 boxing. friday: 5-6 JKD, 6-7 kickboxing, 7-8 grappling. saturday: 9-10:30 private lessons, 10:30-11:30 kali, 11:30-12:30 JKD.

ok, that’s it for now.

WE WILL TRY TO GO TO GROUND ZERO AGAIN TOMORROW FOR CORROSION, since we hear it’s so great. hope to see some more of you there!