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Cara

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

hello, old friend. 9:54 AM

I've got nineteen stars that I give your name tonight
And I wanna scream, wanna scream your name
Star light, star bright can save
you're my wish tonight, new dancefloor demidroid.
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ASEAN NIGHT 2008; TWILIGHT:

was. so. much. fun.
It was way better than last year's oh gosh I'm glad I went.

1700 hours: the girls and I congregated at my place to get gussied up.
vampy makeup, and lots of it.
we're little rad kids yaw.

attack of the ~~werewolf~~ puppydog.

Gwen = witchy. She held Ellie's face in her hands and started humming something and then Ellie immediately grew quiet. ooh freaky. don't mess with the girl in platform combats yaw.

I DID GWEN'S MAKEUP.
does she not look divine?!
i love this look, truly I do; it's so dollhouse meets alice in wonderland meets girl-at-morgue.

Shu so dsn't suit the whole pale skin/dark eyes/undead thing so I made her up in true Anne Hathaway style, isn't she purty. :)

we cabbed to the Fullerton, split into 2 cabs- Jae Jesse and I, and Shu Tricia Gwen. (aka the hotties and the notties. Kidding.)
On the way there, I got a desperate call from Shu+gang, who had realized, shortly after getting into the cab, that they had all of seventy cents between them WOW millionaires much?!

I've missed these two so much. <3 random spazzes.

"yeah I totally agree, like--- oooooh look man cycling with no handles!!!"
"so I was being all weird and stuff and then--- OMIGOSH look that car would make such a good colour if it were a lipstick!"

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this is our vampire face. rawr.

so the six vamps arrived fashionably lately at the fullerton.
woohoo cue more pictures.

can you spot me? I was playing with the revolving door and I must've spun around in it about 1234509845 times hurrah.

ex mg drama club girls!

LOOK I found The Twins. loving the costumes.

and when we went in the strobe lights started p u l s i n g and everything grew dim and dark and lovely.
david martin/david marshall/david martian/i-forgot-his-name from CAP was the emcee and hands-down the lamest one. Gwen says I look like him. ("he's you, only taller and with geek glasses.") I suppose I should be pleased?

then the dancing started, and at first nobody danced, 'cept Lex and Wyon-- who bounded up on the dancefloor as soon as the music started blasting, and started freestyling there for a while.
and then they saw that nobody else was dancing, so Wyon kinda did some smooth little dancey move (that guy doesn't walk-- he dances) and came up to me and swept a low bow and extended his hand.

and so the dancing began.

... I love dancing in places where I hardly know anyone. It becomes so easy- frighteningly easy- to just throw up your hands and swing your hair across your shoulder and let the music move you move you move you and it's beautiful how you can find yourself lost in the beats and the rhythm and the frantic dancelights.

I especially loved it when the dj played a remix of Low, and at the chorus, the whole dancefloor actually got l
o
w
mmyeah.

then the slow dance segment came and I retreated, hot and flushed and breathless from dancing to Flo Rida and JT and insertrapartist'snamehere, and ventured to the stairway with the girls.

for the record: I do matchmaking and I do it pretty damn well, even if I do say so myself.
Tricia: "Shuuu tell Cara which one you want! Cara'll help you get what you want."
...thaaat's what I do.

and then then then
footsteps
and I could see right through you
but we danced anyway.

leant in and told you that I was a vampire
you leant close and asked me if I was going to turn you into one, too
told me the night made me beautiful
I said I know
you said I was shameless
I know I am. (and proud of it)

...the night passed really fast.
like, no kidding. I think this year's ASEAN ended earlier than last year's. if I had had my way, we would have gone on until the a.m. oh, and there would have been more dancing. dancing with strangers is peculiarly cathartic.

(the looks you give are so contagious
the way we move is so outrageous
i know your scent i know your smile i know your secret
c'mon c'mon c'mon one more--)

I like mingling.
I danced with the captain of the basketball team, which was (at least to me) a pretty impressive accolade cuz I suck at any and all ball games,
and Mr Congeniality 2008,
and Edward(!!), just cuz it tickled me to dance with him at a Twilight-themed gala.

...so the dancing finally ended, and we headed out all flushed and bright-eyed and laughing.

sweaty love.

...sorry pris, I had to take this.
just cuz vampires do things like playing the piano. Cullenesque much?

Check out Tisha's eyez.

vampyres.

we are;
we are the shaken
we are the monsters underneath your bed
yeah yeah yeah

this is a picture
of all the people we left alive to go home to their families.
(we'll be seeing you next year.)

tonight was so much fun
love you, girlies
love you and you too

it's cliched I know
but baby it's the price we pay to get the things we want
and I always get what I want
yeah you always get what we want

and every once in a while we become invincible.