Hurtling towards finality.

On Friday I was at the lab, working up reactions and the usual when I received a cal from Avi around 4 pm. He told me that the costume party was on that night, which was a completely unexpected since I thought it was on for Saturday. I rushed home to get ready since I had no idea how long that would take. As it turned out, I needed much less time than what I expected, even with breaking out the makeup. I went with an all-black outfit, with 3-inch black ankle boots, leather pants, cleavage displaying faux-leather top, black knitted coat, whip and some rope for decoration.

Ivan and Avi picked me up at 7 pm and we drove up to Anthony and Jill's with me crammed into the back seat of the car. Pretty much everyone was already there when we arrived and the costumes read as follows; Anthony and Jill were the King and Queen of Spades, Pablo was a "gaucho", Anna was a nurse, Avi was a skeleton, Raoul was some sort of tourist and I was a Dominatrix. We finally arrived at the actually party at Lisa and Michael's place a little after 9 pm. The party was rather quiet to begin with as there were two main groups who didn't know each other, however as the subtle yet powerful punch was imbibed people started to get more comfortable. There were two large "pit-bull" type dogs inside the house and when they were ushered outside I felt a lot more comfortable. We all sat around talking, a slow game of "I never-ever" evolved, more drinking, quite a few shots of Jaegermeister between Jill and I and the party slowly moved towards the point of maximum noise and unintentional humour.
Raoul was being a little pushy, he's been infatuated with me for quite some time, and I think the Dom outfit was a final straw and he cornered me outside while I was getting my bag. I had to put him down rather forcefully, but thankfully he understood when I said I had a girlfriend and didn't bother me too much after that. Jill's friend Almie arrived unexpectedly, and she is great fun to hang out with. She's queer and is very laid back so I spent a lot of the evening sitting next to her talking and drinking. I was nibbling on some Calzone in the kitchen when Michael came in and in rather fast succession we each had knocked back 3 or 4 more shots of Jaegermeister.
About 2 am the party was slowly wrapping up, mainly because since we had car-pooled, people were dependant on others for lifts, particularly the drunk ones. For comfort I changed out of the faux-leather top at Anthony's place and put on a singlet and Ivan drove Avi and myself home.. I crashed in bed around 4 pm.

The next day I woke up around 11 am with no hang over, but merely a sense of tiredness. I got myself together to go down to a local Art show which was being held over on Sunset Drive. There is a guy I know from gaming called Budge, and he is very nice and a photographer as well. On Friday night he was having a gallery opening and I had intended to go but the party intervened so I cycled over to see his tent at the Art show. There were maybe +100 artists of all genres selling their wares and I wandered around looking at them all before finally coming across him. He was having a good day and we talked for a good 30 minutes and then I let him get back to business. I dropped off the film from the night before and then cycled to the lab to check email and then home again. I slept for a few hours and then went back to work once more to upload a diary entry. I had only been there a short while Avi called me from Anthony's place. He said Anthony, Jill and himself were going out for dinner and that if I wanted to come I could get a lift with Raoul. Being in a car along with Raoul was a bit unsettling, but I wanted to take every opportunity to hang out with my friends while I am here, so Raoul picked me up around 6:30 pm. For whatever reason Anthony and Avi were drinking again when we arrived, not something they usually do after a big night the night before. We went to a standard TGIF place and settled in at the bar, Anthony and Avi warming to their fishbowl sized Long Island Iced Tea. Jill and I bet the guys something silly about drinking and flashed our bras when we lost. It was silly but all in good fun.

On the way home Anthony and I were being silly, and upon arriving home Anthony and Avi started wrestling over Avi's keys as Avi was in no state to drive. We played a short round of Spades before Raoul and I had to go shortly after midnight and I got home around 1 am. I called Allison up for a brief chat as I hadn't spoken to her much and regaled her with my adventurous weekend.

Today (Sunday) has been rather quiet which is just fine. I woke up around 11 am and cycled over to the lab about 12:30 pm. I scanned in some of the pictures which had been developed, I had shot almost an entire roll in one evening. I came home via the supermarket (more tofu was bought) and talked to Allison some more. She's had an interesting conversation with her close friend Dave which was somewhat revealing. The rest of the day I simply did domestic chores and was working on the presentation for tomorrow. There is no gamming on Tuesday as Avi will be interstate and Wednesday will be the regular meeting.