RA meeting recap

what happens when you gather a bunch of strangers (who thought they had one thing in common) around a table with many bottles of red wine?
three things: 1. they have fun 2. they discover they have a lot more in common 3. a hangover the next morning.

how it all began: petya and i met a couple of weeks ago and had a really fun evening out blabbing about the ups and downs of coming back to bulgaria. later, she mentioned that in her blog, nicky said in a comment he returned to the mothership, too, and i added a half-serious comment that we should start a support circle for returnees. petya was the one to give my sarcastic comment a kick - she offered that we throw a returnees anonymous party. then elena and DJ (or is it denny?) got excited by the idea, everyone brought along more returnees (ani, emma, vessela, ivo, doriana)and, well, the rest is history...

there were lots of laughs, ordering bottle after bottle of red wine followed by maniacal-looking-in-the-eye toasts, and talking about anything and everything. some of the conversation topics included: sushi, throwing a sushi party in LIULIN(!), The Reason for having seven years of bad sex, socialism, whether emma looks like a whore or a transvestite or neither, julia kristeva, a wedding :), white snake, antidepressants, a sad boy george story, atheism, and, of course, the eternal "should i stay or should i go" debacle so commonly found in the minds of young bulgarians. all this followed by mad e-mail/phone number exchange.

somewhere amidst all the words and laughter and wine i somehow got chosen (well, okay, proclaimed myself) to be the future godmother of the wonderful kyle. i've got enough reasons to think me baptizing kyle will be the biggest travesty ever and god, will it be fun!

we finally had to leave the place around 2am (two hours after closing time) but i don't think anyone wanted to leave. at least i didn't.

not believing in herd type events, i didn't think this party would go so well. but it did. i met lots of cool people and they felt like friends. i can't wait to meet them again.

p.s. my cure for hangover: a painkiller, an upsarin c, a pot of coffee and beta band's "dog got a bone"
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