Fun weekend! Woke up yesterday to feed the cats, read for a while, then took a nap -- which did try to trigger a migraine, because of the heat, but I ended up alright by the time we went to the movies. When I woke up I shaved the sides of my head and took a shower, and ash got us food from the Japanese/Chinese-american-food place down the street, which was alright. Then we went to go see Sinners at the drive-in -- it's very good, very interesting, takes most of the movie to set up the plot and then has all the action and horror in the last third. Very nicely period in the dialogues and costumes, but the lighting and being projected onto a screen washed it out in a way that made it hard to tell who was who sometimes. The soundtrack is fantastic, though, a lot of great music in it.
I did get mislead by a plot summary -- the movie is entirely vampires but I was under the impression there were vampires and something else getting summoned. Was a little disappointed but that's on me.
When we got home ash opened the back door for Ivy for a bit, and then a combination of it being 11 at night and being pre- or mid-migraine meant it got left open all night with no one noticing, and then I couldn't find Oz for like half an hour of looking everywhere for her, so that was not a fun way to end the night. But I did find her (inside) eventually, and went to bed. Unfortunately my night did not get better, Cael kept harassing Oz all night and even outside of that I kept waking up every half hour or so and so didn't get very much sleep.
Today I woke up, fed myself, got dressed, and headed out to the lavender district for drag brunch! I got there at about 1:20 and then stood in line until they started letting people in, close to 2. It was packed, and since I was a single person I got seated at the bar. I was expecting there to be some kind of stage area for the performers but they just performed between the tables, doing a circuit of the restaurant. It was fun! Four performers lip-syncing and dancing to music, each performed twice except the hostess who performed three times, I recognised like three of the songs (That Don't Impress Me Much; Man! I Feel Like a Woman; I Will Always Love You) and nothing else. The staff all also seemed to be gay, including the tiniest lesbian DJ, and of course there was a high concentration of gay patrons as well.
It was really rejuvenating to be surrounded by other queer people and allies and to be immersed in a queer experience. To see how popular the drag brunch is -- like I said, it was packed, and they have drag brunch twice every sunday, so it must be lucrative enough to keep it going.
I hope I didn't catch anything. I did mask up until I had food and then I left it off for the rest of the afternoon. I got a strawberry-and-cream waffle and a paloma, they were decent.
During the second act, like a minute into it, the show had to stop because someone passed out, and then we had to wait for paramedics to arrive. I couldn't see what happened, but at the end of it all the person was walked down the stairs by said paramedics, so they were conscious and able to walk, at least. Hopefully they're okay by now.
Yeah! After the show I walked around the city for a little bit, with an aim of getting eyes on the bookstore I want to attend the book club at next week. They were closed when I got there, I'm not sure if they're usually closed at 4 on Sundays or if it was just an indie bookstore being randomly closed, but I took note of some of the flyers in their windows and started heading home. By then I really needed to pee, so I asked ash if I could get a ride home from the station, and that did work out.
At home I watched a youtube while ash did some work on a fan project, and then we hung out while dinner started happening. We had planned on watching To Wong Foo, as I think I mentioned, but it was getting late and we also wanted to watch the last two episodes of Dragula so we did that instead and will Wong Foo another time.
Also as mentioned I'd spoiled myself on the winner for the season, so there wasn't any suspense for me there, but the episodes were still good. We have Resurrection and Titans now to watch, and then we'll be out of Dragulas.
I am super tired! So I'm going to go zone out until sleep happens and then hopefully I'll be able to sleep through the dingdang night for once. Erika got me the Oblivion remaster for my birthday, so I might check that out for a while!