tonight was a good night

tonight was a good night. i had a halfway decent workout at the gym and made plans with friends for dinner. there were seven of us, and we arrived at different times and caught up and hugged and polished off three carafes of red wine. people left the table in smoke break shifts. then jami and i went to guernica for a benefit for the east village firefighters. i got on the dance floor and shook it as best as i could, and soon joined with cinde and nico. i needed this, and i said so to them; nico agreed: "i so needed it and i didn't even know how much i needed it." then we ran into a creature known as sabiil outside. her biggest complaint was that the bouncer wasn't letting her in without ID. she was all, "hello? i don't have my ID because of something called rubble." she talked about seeing the world trade center stuff on tv and trying to clear all the drugs out of her system to make sure it was real: blowing her nose, waving the smoke out of the air, hacking a loogie. we were cracking up. then nursed beers and shots at lucy's after rejoining maurice and toby. jami looked like a cute jewish catholic schoolgirl with knee socks. i sat briefly with the new boyfriend of a guy that i went out with once and we totally got along. people complimented me. my friends that i introduced to each other hit it off. it was a good night, filled with friends and light but caring conversations; i got plenty drunk but didn't do any drugs and feel like i'll be in one piece for brunch with the same crew tomorrow.