our elegant little dinner party at sara's last night went off wonderfully...so wonderfully, in fact, that heather has decreed that it should be repeated every month or so. sara had an awesome setup in her living room, with tons of flat pillows and candles, so it kind of felt like we were in india or the middle east (it helped that rae brought hummus and tabouleh for appetizers). we had so much damned food, especially the best fruit salad with every fruit known to man in it, that we just all ate until we couldn't eat anymore...and then we ate more...the conversation naturally turned to matters of men and sex, as it must when the fab four are finally reunited (not since january, christ), and it was quite entertaining, shall we say. we're all finally at more or less the same juncture, which is really amusing considering how things stood merely a year ago. sara's mom even let us have a go at some merlot, except i find wine really nasty so heather drank mine--way to go, babe, always willing to take one for your hetero lifemate!

after being apart from them for four months, especially rae who i hadn't seen at all since break, it just felt so right to be together, eating and laughing and cuddling on sara's bed to watch a movie about a lesbian cheerleader. i still miss the freedom of school, but there are, at the very least, three important things to be thankful for in being at home.