The Social Butterfly

Despite the "drama" of the past few days, I'm relatively okay and even relatively happy. I've just been trying to keep busy.

Last night NDN had a dinner party. It was fun. I've become friendly with many of NDN's crew from his various events, but I hadn't seen most of them in quite some time. I invited StarGazer to the party and mostly just "held court," telling everyone about the latest Narc news. NDN had a cake there from the Buttercup Bake Shop. It was yumm....

I came back upstairs to my place at around 1:00 and puttered around my house unable to sleep until after 3:00 AM.

This morning I woke up at 9:30 AM so that I'd have time to have brunch with Hammer and the Alaskan before they left for Philly. The Alaskan is heading back to Portland next week and Hammer's family will be here visiting before she takes off for Paris in another week or two. We ate at Manatus-- a diner in the village where I'd eaten with Brick several times and even had a brunch there with Hammer the Alaskan and Narc. After brunch I walked them home and then headed back to my place.

I decided to paint my nails black. That's when the phone rang. I was shocked to see whose name came up on my screen... it was Brick!

"Hello?" I answered dubiously.

Brick greeted me with his usual nickname for me. I told him that I thought he wasn't talking to me and that I was really confused by his most recent disappearance and the fact that he ignored me at that meeting two weeks ago. He assured me that it was just his typical flakiness and that he wasn't mad at me or not wanting to be my friend. Then he dropped his big news-- he's moving to LA in August. We made a plan to get dinner on Thursday night.

"But what are you doing right now?" he asked.

"Nothing. Waiting for my nail polish to dry. How about you?"

"Going to get shoes."

He told me that his grandmother had passed away and that he was leaving for Michigan the next day.

"Do you want to meet me?" he asked.

"Where are you?"

"Soho."

"K. I can come down."

We hung up the phone. One second later the phone rang again. It was Brick.

"What's up?"

"You'll never guess what just happened!!"

"What???"

"I passed Narc on the street."

"What?!?!?" I was caught off guard.

"Where were you?"

"Bleeker and Sixth."

"I was just over there this morning!" I exclaimed. "Was he alone."

"Yeah. And he looked really disheveled. I know you like that look, but it was disheveled-not-good."

"Woah."

There was some weird convergence of forces happening. Brick and Narc always seem to disappear and reappear in my life at the same time. And now there seemed to be some strange metaphysical vortex at Bleeker and Sixth.

In any case, I hopped in a cab and headed to Soho.

I met Brick at the Prada store where he was getting shoes. We decided to get lunch together and walked over to Cowgirl. He looked different-- his hair was short and he was wearing a wife beater and baggy shorts. He lost a lot of weight and built up a lot of muscles in his chest and arms and he was really tanned. Despite all the time that has passed and despite all the ways in which I've felt terrible about our friendship, it was as if no time had passed at all. I think that Brick and I will always just share a certain bond... I can't explain to anyone what it's like to "count days" with someone, but Brick is it for me...

After lunch I decided to walk him back to his apartment in Chelsea. We caught each other up on our lives. Then I hung out with him in his apartment while he packed for Michigan. His mom wants him to sing the Ave Maria and the "Irish Blessing" at the funeral, so he tried them out on me. Then I walked him over to Penn Station. I wanted to meet his new boyfriend who was meeting him there, but everyone was in a rush with the trains, so it never happened.

Anyway, we said our goodbyes (until Thursday) and I headed back home.

Tonight I'm going to hear a punk band play in the East Village-- a group called "the Dead Betties." My friend A is a music publicist and he has something to do with that band. Pixie and I are meeting him downtown at around 11:00 PM.

So... that's it for now. I kept myself really busy today and relatively sane given yesterday's exchange with Narc.

I have on uber-dramatisch eyemakeup right now. I need to go eat some Chinese food and find something black to wear.

Until later...

-h-