smells like teen spirit

so it smells like teen spirit in my flat at the moment. or something like it, anyway. so i've escaped to write from the tranquil space of a friend's tidy courtyard. our place looks like a crime scene. we had an outrageous rocker of a housewarming last night and i awoke to see that my gold stilettos were still gorgeously flung under a chair, where they landed after we pushed the couches back to make more room on the impromptu dance floor. i noted the red wine splattered across the floor like blood, the empty bottles and glasses everywhere, flowers strewn about like fallen soldiers, and great wilting hunks of cheese - the silent witnesses to it all. it was a grand soiree.

ostensibly* this is a blog about the rule of law and then some. not parties. although i suppose parties fall comfortably into the "and then some" category. nevertheless, i'll let the details stay with the cheese except to say that our signature cocktail - christened "momentum" - was a strawberry-liquor mash & champers and it was a smashing success. as was the sangria. and the ballroom-dancing to snoop dogg at 3 am. i can't help but delight in the details.**

as per my previous posts, life is delicious details. moments.

and momentum.

more on the rule of law later.


*i have a long relationship with that word. in grade four, i used it in a paper on paul revere (well, insofar as one wrote papers in grade four) and was very pleased with having looked it up. (i even remember the context: "ostensibly to buy supplies".) unfortunately my teacher just accused me of plagiarism. which stung.

**speaking of details, this is the actual exchange of sms messages between a friend who dared to think of not making it & yours truly from 11:00 - 12:30. oh and there was a massive downpour in the middle of the night. ahem:

friend: almost to your place, but pouring rain now... won't add to your wet crowd in the apt - heading to d lounge for a couple drinks if you all adjourn to somewhere else

meiling: you suck. we are waiting for you. hate you forever.

friend: really? i'll come over... but didn't think you really wanted wet additions to the party.

friend: it's a mess outside!

meiling: get it together

friend: ok - will come with four or five people in about half an hour. you'll still be going?

meiling: of course

friend: okay. see you soon!

meiling: whatever. still kind of barf that you didn't come here first.

friend:okay... next time then? or no text / no show? this seems better than both... we were there - at the corner of jingshan dong jie and hou jie and got out of cab to find it.... then rain came

meiling: bite me

friend: on the way now.

meiling: awesome