decidedlyodd

I got up at 9am, threw my clothes in the dryer and went back to bed. Around 9:30, I got back up, took a shower and headed out to pick some undergrads up to take them to Pride. It turned out my car wasn’t needed after all (3 people didn’t show up). On my way to Durham, it dawned on me that I had forgotten to eat breakfast. I made a detour to Guglhupf to grab a cheese Brezelstange and a Doppelbrötchen. After parking my car, I walked over to Duke’s east campus for the festivities. Shortly thereafter, I ran into James and Steve, these guys from UNC I’ve gotten to know recently. They introduced me to a couple of their other friends who were joining them (I forget their names now since I’m so bad at remembering such things). We wandered around the various booths before ending up listening to the local gay men’s chorus (so many cheezy, cheezy songs! but it was entertaining) and a couple of speakers including Mark Kleinschmidt.

Then the parade began. My pictures of that can be found here. The whole thing was neat, but rather low key at least in comparison to the Gay Pride Parade I saw in San Francisco back in 1998. Still, it captured the overall spirit of the Triangle area. Interestingly, there were actually a lot of gay-affirmative church groups marching (it is the bible belt I suppose). After the parade was over, we ended up at the Blue Corn Cafe in Durham for a rather long, but good lunch.

Then I headed back to Chapel Hill, where I almost immediately went over to Lime and Basil for my roommate Michael’s belated birthday. I was still stuffed from lunch, so I just got an appetizer. From there, I went to Brian and Brad’s place for their BBQ. Good food, good time for sure. Brian, Rick and I waited around until 10 before going over to Genette’s for her cheap wine party. I didn’t drink too much wine (like 1 glass) since today was pretty tiring (wine just makes me more tired). Anyhow, a couple of pictures from there can be found here. Highlights include Genette and Jeff T slapping each other in a disturbingly playful manner: