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[pantryslut]

Look! I suffer from transcendent wisdom!

I think Charlie is referring to the year in which I worked in my garden instead of attending Pride. I remember getting a phone call from friends in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday. They were at the dyke march, they were drunk with heat and female pheromones and completely babbling, and it was almost like being there.

This year I have no garden, thus no excuse. I still may skip big portions of the weekend. It's not that I'm jaded or strung out, it's that I'm congenitally exhausted. I've been going to pride marches since I was 20, at least. I have strong ties to the queer press. I've sold magazines in the rain, camped out in pride tents in cities I'd never been to before (and cities I've lived in for years). I've sat on a Grand Marshall's float. I've carried the dyke march banner (and thus ogled the go-go-girls for the length of the walk).

And I'm proud every fucking day of my life. Rainbows or no rainbows, march or no march. But sometimes I like to consider myself retired -- may I never be required to work a booth on a weekend in June ever again!

Comments

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

If it'd help you feel rested, you're welcome to crash at my place. I'm on 14th near Sanchez. Call if so.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I probably won't take you up on it -- I have frends nearby that I'd probably head to first -- but it's sweet of you to offer.

"Transcendent"?

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

What's transcendent about thinking "sardine-can crowds + hard liquor sales = not a good time"?

Re: "Transcendent"?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Well, but that's just skipping Sunday afternoon. I've skipped all of the weekend's activities in the past, from Dyke March to the various and sundry exciting cultural events in the evening, too. I am a power loafer.

[charliegrrrl.livejournal.com]

I just remember being impressed that someone as proud and fierce as you was chilling out and skipping the roasty boozy goodness of pride. I've marched a fair bit and worked a few booths, but probably not as many as you. It definitely made me feel liberated to know that I didn't *have* to go to every single pride event -- it was like a permsision slip or something. :)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I will write you a hall pass any time you need one :)