I really had not thought that was in the plans for tonight.
I just got back from dancing a good solid two hours at Mighty.
God damn I love House music.
It was so good.
I am going to be stupid sore tomorrow.
I did yoga this morning, ran around all day long and then danced, pretty damn hard, for a good two hours.
I might skip yoga tomorrow and just let myself sleep in.
It’s raining furiously at the moment and I’m thinking I got a good damn work out in, I could be ok with not going to the studio in the morning.
And I’m up late, it’s almost one a.m. and by the time I finish the blog and get to bed it will probably be 2 a.m.
Not that late.
But late for me.
Late for a school girl, a working girl, a busy girl, like me.
I might have been the only person at the club with school books on them.
That’s how I roll up on the club now, bag of text books instead of a bag of blow.
Heh.
I had a pretty good idea that I would be out all day long when I left the house early this afternoon, and I knew I would be taking the BART over to Oakland in the early evening, I figured I might have time to do some reading for school on the train.
I wasn’t expecting to be going clubbing, or I might have left them at the house.
Be that as it may, I did do a little reading, but mostly it was just funny to be out at a club dancing and have all the stuff and things that I carry around with me in my day-to-day life.
But it was worth it.
I got in on a guest list.
Unexpected.
I got free waters all night.
Lovely and unexpected.
I got a ride back from the East Bay to the club.
Totally unexpected.
And.
I got a ride home from the club.
Super grateful.
I mean.
Seriously.
And it was such a turn around from my early experiences in the city with the trains and with Uber.
I have an app on my phone that basically tells me when the trains are running, but this afternoon it was constantly telling me that the train was either stopped or stalled or delayed.
So I took a car to go up to Tart to Tart.
Only to see a train pulling in as my car was pulling up.
Too late to cancel and well, fuck it.
It was a horrible ride and I arrived quite cranky, bad, bad, bad navigation, bad driving, the driver took a speed bump at full speed in Golden Gate Park and I got tossed up in the seat and hit on my head on the roof of the car.
The best part was that the driver shouldn’t have routed through Golden Gate Park, but his navigation directed him there and despite a friendly suggestion that he avoid the park, he did a circle anyway.
Coming out exactly where he had gone in, a nice loop through, a scenic detour, I told myself, be grateful, you’re in a car, it’s a gift, you aren’t wet, you are being carried somewhere, you don’t have to drive, the park is pretty.
Restart your day.
Oh yeah.
That’s a great idea.
So I did.
I just said my morning routine in my head and I started over.
Then I met my friend for a lovely afternoon at the cafe.
We sat and chatted and caught up, she was in Paris over the break from school, and then a walk through the Inner Sunset and lunch.
We parted ways.
I got a manicure.
Then.
The trains, again, running off, I really think that the weather may have had something to do with it.
I got another car.
I needed to make it to the BART to get over to the speaking gig in Oakland.
The driver was not from the city and did not believe me when I suggested he take the left hand lane on Oak instead of the right.
The right feeds to the freeway and always jams up tight.
He argued with me, told me the navigation was right and proceeded to get trapped in the turn lane onto the freeway.
I suggested that he really would have a better time if he got into the left hand lane, he basically told me I was wrong, the navigation knew better, and he was going to stick with the navigation.
I was flabbergasted.
I responded that I have lived in San Francisco for fourteen years.
“I can tell you want to be right,” the driver responded.
“No,” I said, “I want to get to the BART station and not get stuck on the freeway.”
The passenger in the front intervened, “she is right, you are in the wrong lane, and you are going to get stuck going onto the freeway.”
The driver finally acquiesced to changing lanes after the man up front explained it to him.
I was stunned, did I just get a scolding and a talking to because I was a woman telling a man that Google maps didn’t always know the best way to go.
I think I was.
I haven’t had that kind of out-and-out blatant sexism in a while.
And for the first time ever I gave a driver a bad rating.
I had no compunction about it at all.
He didn’t apologize for being rude to me or arguing with me, and even though he was correct, I wanted to be right versus being happy, it was really a jarring experience.
I got out of the car and got to the BART and made it just on time to get to where I needed to be in Rockridge.
The speaking gig went well, I don’t remember anything I said.
Well, I swore a lot, but I tend towards profanity, and I was told it was good.
So that was nice.
Then.
I got talked into the dancing and I just said, fuck it, yes, I’ll go.
Then the ride to the club, the free pass in, the awesome music, the dancing until my knees wanted to buckle and the ride home, all more than made up for a few goofy transportation snags.
It was a really nice way to end a day that had been a bit on the wonky side.
Grateful I got to get right with God and be of service and then to go hang out in the church, the club, and dance and raise my arms and raise my voice and sing and shout and stomp.
God loves music.
Dontcha know?
Seriously.
Music and dancing are spiritual to me and I got right with God.
I got my groove on.
Hella on.
I may also have to get my ibuprofen on before I crawl into bed.
But it was worth it.
Very much so.
Thank you God for House music.
Thank you so very much.
And for always getting me to the church on time.
Always.
Regardless of the navigation.
Auntiebubba 