Lovely!

Can we go to dinner somewhere swanky? I'm going to need as many chances to wear nice clothes as possible, to justify owning them all.

In and Out didn't cut it for swank?

Swanky dinners are good. I will also mention that many wore swanky stuff when we went bowling last year.

Can we go to dinner somewhere swanky?

what kind of swanky are you looking for? The Hotel George (right up the street) has a kind of swanky restaurant. Also, if you want seafood swanky, I recommend Oceanaire (sooooo good)

I've no idea what I'm going to wear. I've got film-noir goth, casual goth, slummy computer geek, cowgirl, and diplomat formal clothes. I'll probably cycle through all of them.

Okay, this. THIS is why I freak out every year before the F2F.

Because everyone else is so fabulous and glittery and has clothes that actually belong to categories, when I'm just....me. And my clothes are just....clothes. Like, pants. And shirts.

Grumble.

My first meara in a very long time. ::sniff::

And people -- we need to DANCE this year! Hardly anyone danced last year, which was a damn shame.

I am a dancing fool. If I like the music, I can't *not* dance. I will be shaking my booty, by myself if I have to.

"Everyone is all excited to see everyone else EXCEPT me! Nobody is going to want to spend time with ME! Everyone else is going to be all fabulous and glam and sparkly and outrageous and I'm just going to sit in the corner eating self-pity corn fritters."]

Note to self: approach teppy with quiet enthusiasm. and something to wash down the fritters.

"All The Things She Said" for dance music.

cooler in Russian. I have it and will try to bring it.

ya sa shla su uma…

In fact, will try and put together a bunch of songs on a cd and bring them.

It's gonna get awfully lonely out in the middle of the room with everyone lurking off in corners...

More room to dance!!! (I have a bad habit of dancing with my eyes closed. I've hit people before. My first GF accused me of dancing like a boxer.)

Umm. To provide a counterpoint to all the black, I'm reasonably sure that (one of) my Prom outfits will be a floorlength vintage empire-waisted white formal dress with peacock-hued big ol paisley print.

Yeah.

And my clothes are just....clothes.

They'll go perfectly with mine. I just don't have anything fancy to go to normally. I pretty much wear jeans or sweat pants all but about three days a month, and, with one thing and another, my weight has been all over the map for the last couple of years. I'm just going to have to get by on my winning smile and unusual eyes.

AND The Garnets, right?

Yes, Katerina, perhaps I should just lean on people's being so dazzled by The Garnets that they won't notice anything else I'm wearing. We never have figured out why my great-aunt Lucille owned anything so extravagant.