i don't want to brag yall...

but check this out. i have a bunch to report, but let me begin here. so i was a bit cranky yesterday after i finished volunteering at the co-op office all day so i came home, got more cranky and decided to nap before i headed up to jes's school for a fish burrito and a gay lawyers mixer at floyd's. that's right, homo law students from all over the city descending on a bar that has a gay night *once a month*. thanks floyd's. anywho, we got there and in fact it was mostly brooklyn law school students, but it was still a good time. we played a little bocce ball (though i question the rules niki imparted to us), drank some beer, and i became mesmerized by the classic films playing the screen behind the booth we were sitting in. i chatted with jes, niki and beth baltimore, but i mostly chatted with beth's two friends whose names i forget, but i invited them to jes's party so i will get a chance to learn their names for good. anywho, i was getting tired b/c i am an old lady, so jes and i finished up our bud lights (so classy) and headed out the door. as we were leaving, i looked over at the bar and who is sitting there? Kim, the cute little butchie dyke from America's next top model. She lives in Brooklyn. Now, if you by chance live under a rock and do not know about her, here is a pic:



i saw her and recognized her and motioned to jes to look (b/c jes could be sitting next to parker posey and not realize it. smart as a whip with the lawyer/grad student stuff, clueless when it comes to celebs sitings). anywho jes was like "oh my gosh" when we got outside. i immediately started to call sarah and kim at home and promptly woke sarah up (bad donna bad donna) which made me feel like an a-hole (sorry sarah). anwyho i told her and then demanded that jes call/text everyone in the bar so they knew. but alas, there was no signal in the bar. so since jes's bladder is the size of a peanut we decided to go back in so she could use the toilet and i could let all the lezzie lawyers know that a (famous) one of our own was right there in the bar. also if you don't watch the show, you don't know that kim is the most butch model ever to grace the show and through most of the show she wears polos with the collar popped and lotsa ties. anywho they keep telling her that they "get" her whole "masculine thing" but that she needs to embrace more of her feminine thing, blah blah and one night she just busted out about how she struggles with her gender everyday and that basically (in my words) the gender binary doesn't work for her. now of course i am graduate studentizing what she said but the big thing is that she is masculine and beautiful and on tv and has not let them totally turn her permanently into barbie (she *is* rail thin, but lets pretend that doesn't matter right now). anywho i thought it took spunk to say that on tv, so i was going to thank her. so i walked up to her, pardoned myself for the interruption (she was talking to some woman) and said thank you to her for talking about gender the way she did on national television. she was like "wow, thanks." then she introduced herself as kim (like i didn't know that). i told her i was donna, introduced her to niki (who is probably laying in bed with her right now) and jes. we chatted a bit, she told me that she has caught a lot of flack for saying the stuff she did so its nice to hear positive feedback. i said no problem and let her know that it gave me a little bit of hope. then we left and caught the bus.

this just in: jes has just told me that another one of her friends from bls, andrea who looks like a more butchie ally sheedy and smells divine, played bocce ball at the bar with kim from america's next top model. i mean really how long until i am partying with robert dinero and laurence fishburne? its inevitable yall. don't worry i won't forget you little people.

ok onto less famous but equally as beautiful folks. i got an email from my old college roommate cheryl. she sent me a picture of her wedding. you might remember the pics of her bachelorette party- penis antennae, penis candy, penis squirt guns. anywho, here is a pic of her and her husband orasio:



how lovely is that?

and while we are on the topic of lovely, i had a lovely saturday afternoon with higgins, lisa d. and vicki talking about feminist publishing, eating hot diggity dog (jes joined in for this) and bday cake, and then heading out to cattyshack. it was a really great time. we had dogs and jalapeno poppers and squeeze cheese fries (so good) and higgins really loved her less than lovely peppermint patty cake that i made. i had this recipe that said you could just put the patties on the hot out of the oven cake and they would melt into a frosting. this, my friends, is a bold faced lie. so it turned out kind of ugly. take a look:



despite its appearance, the kids seemed to enjoy it. it was a bit sweet for me. i am going to try and bring the left overs up to higgins at work today if i can get it together soon and start my day. also, here is a pic of the cuties before we went out to the bar. please pay close attention to higgins "boiled wool" coat. my question to you, dear reader, is this: do you know what boiled wool is? b/c i had never heard of it. luckily, neither had lisa d. and she is a genius, so i don't feel that dumb. now vicki had heard of it, she is also a genius, but she is a genius from england and they have that kind of stuff over there. anywho here they are:



damn those are some hot feminists.

okay i am off to atlanta for work tomorrow. it is supposed to be 80 degrees there. i love the atl.