Oh no, the shower's not at the restaurant. THe shower is at the St Regis Dana Point. [link]

It's where Joe's Christmas party was held a few years ago. The one I was terrified to go becuase it's very ritzy and very expensive and I was afraid they'd smell the poor on me.

So, the shower is in the room the MoH has purchased using points from her husbands travels. We (the guests) are invited to hang there or by the pool, then have the shower in the room, followed by the Bachlorette Party dinner whatever and then, we can all cram into the room for 10 of us to sleep there.

WTF.

I'm not staying the night because if we get caught, it's $50/person. I don't have it, I'm not risking it. Have a good time.

See, Andi is all polite and shit. My e-mail to MoH would be "Do you UNDERSTAND that when you're organizing/hosting a party, you don't MAKE THE GUESTS PAY?"

And I was trying to be stern and stuff. But why not send an email with a body combined of Emily's and my suggestions, and with this bit of Teppy's as a P.S.?

Alternatively, you could let us have this fart-snot's email address and let us express our opinions of her.

Sounds like a blessing in disguise. You have a sort of slow ramp-up to get back into the swing of student-y life.

Thanks. This is what I figure. Plus, less money that I don't have!

Just about all the showers I've ever been to have been either at someone's home or a church rec room, with all the food provided by the host (the one exception was the shower my MoH gave me at Lovejoy's Teahouse in San Francisco, and she paid for the entire freaking thing - which I didn't ask or expect her to do; that was her choice, the budget she set herself, and she'd have sooner cut off her own right arm and eaten it than accepted a penny from either me or any of the guests).

It would be really, really lovely if somewhere on the guest list for Cowhole's Pay-As-You-Go Shower there were an old and very important dowager relation who could pin her to the wall with a hatpin and crush her beneath the weight of several hundred years of Society and Politesse and her own righteous fury at Cowhole's unspeakable vulgarity.

Actually, if someone could spring for my ticket, I'd be happy to fly in and play the part.

Such a giant fucking cowhole.

Cowhole is my new favorite word. Because so many women don't deserve the title of bitch.

Maybe he's hinting...though I look at the rates and despair.

Good kitty! erika, you really need to understand that there's a cost of living adjustment for living in the Bay Area. You make more money here. I mean it's still expensive, but you can't look at your Phoenix money and the Bay Area prices and get a real sense of it.

Oh, *I* don't have Teh Cramps; I was just commiserating with Robin b/c I *do* get cramps of doom; just not today.

Glad to hear you're not amongst the suffering. Feel free to save up the ~~~ for later, if you like.

juliana still around?

Of course, while the website only has me registered for 3 classes, it still has me paying for 4.

Feel free to save up the ~~~ for later, if you like.

Pre-emptive squiggles! Yay!

I need to move my tushie.

Really.

Daniel asked me to take a DVD back to the library, and I just remembered I bought a pile of stuff to make salsa with yesterday. Need to actually make it.

Need to take shower, first.

Want nap.

Must.

Find.

Pronouns.