I was laying in the grass with my head on my backpack. My eyes were closed and my cheeks were wet. I was taking a few private minutes to wallow in the knowledge that I am the source of my own problems. And my tummy was still hungover.

"You're a New Yorker, right?" Some skinny guy in glasses was standing over me.
"What?" I asked.
"Do you live in New York?"
"Yeah."
"Great. Just checking. What do you look for in a day spa?"
"I don't go to day spas."
He groaned. "Well if you did, what characteristics would you look for?"
"Look, I don't feel well and I'm trying to take a nap, OK?"
"Fine," he said and sulked away.

I'm in a mood and just want to be left alone.

But I have done a lot of cool stuff in the last week, and I'd like to tell you about it.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Prospect Park
* Goober and I went together. It was a beautiful night. Kids were running around playing and screaming. (The screaming was a bit much for me, but it was cracking up Goober.) The music was lovely and soothing. No craziness. Just a nice time with a great friend.

Broadway Bares / Roseland Ballroom
* Goober strikes again. Her roommate is a dancer in 42nd Street, and invited us to this benefit. Two hundred nekkid Broadway dancers. Performing movie-themed numbers, no less! My highlight was seeing cutie John Tartaglia of Avenue Q wearing only a puppet. Goober and I, being the vertically challenged pair that we are, couldn't see a thing until a very nice man made space for us to sit on a railing.
* Other points of view: Biscuit | Patches

Charity fundraiser / Museum of Sex
* The Chinese foot-binding exhibit was freaking out Esther and I. Especially the barely-preserved foot inside a glass box. The card next to it said that both of a woman's feet had "spontaneously sloughed off." Shudder! And I almost replaced the sex toy that I lost in the process of my move last year, but decided to wait for a group trip to Toys in Babeland for that.
* Another point of view: Fish

The Dot-Com Reunion
* A few years ago, we were keeping sunblock in our desks because we would take our wireless laptops and free sodas out to the sunny 19th floor Times Square blancony to "work." Now we all live in reality. It was fun to see old faces, but by the end of the night, I was back hanging with my own friends. The reunion was mostly oddities, because the people I really want to keep up with, I already do.
* Another point of view: Cristin She's making me blush!

Aww, a friend just sent me the cutest e-card to cheer me up. I think I'm going to go cry some more now.

I wish I wasn't at the office.