Sleep is for the Weak

All of last night’s excitement actually happened this morning. Ow. Totally not my fault though.

Saturday Night

8:00- Pasta and Wine with Beth and Alli at Wei Lun

9:00- Party disbands to get prettied up

9:45- Beth shows up, announces that Alli is still in her pj’s and Hannah just arrived home from Macau so they are to be at least another half hour. We take a walk to the gas station

10:10- Beth and I buy 4 cans of Carlesburg and a bottle of gas station wine. Because we’re classy chicks like that.

10:45- Back on 4/F Wei Lun, Ally is ready but we’re waiting for Hannah. H went to bed at 2am Fri, and was up for Macau at 6am Sat, so we are willing to cut slack. And to pop open that second bottle of wine.

11:30- Somehow I’m suddenly in B’s room with Alli listening to ‘spoken word’. I’m not really a cultural bohemian like those two. In my mind I consider it freestyle rap. Or just rap. Apparently if you don’t talk about skanks and hoes then its poetry, performance art. Although in some parts of the world, rap is performance art. Like all music. Whatever, we all know Abby isn’t into all the touchy-feely nonsense that gets vegans and Californians excited.

12:00 We’ve finally managed to finish all the beer and wine and exit Wei Lun. We dawdle around long enough for the girls to have a smoke and catch a cab.

Sunday Morning (see? I was ready to head out at 9:30)

12:45- Arrive in LKF having picked up our Aussie lover Derek and quest for a short time after this jazz bar Kurt told us about. Kurt turns out to be a dirty liar and we end up at Finds (Do we recall the night Ab and H. went to 19 different bars? Finds is the swanky place we met Anshel.) Anshel and his buddy from Perth and their entire entourage are there again and in no time at all Theric shows up with his own crew of miscreants.

Finds makes it onto my top 5 list because they make a killer whiskey sour. Lots of places here don’t do sours. I share mine around a bit and become Beth’s drink guru because it turns out I drink all sorts of exotic things she’s never heard of, and they have cherries in them. Finds has very decent music and a lovely terrace, aside from Hei Hei it’s the only

1:30- Everyone decides its time to upgrade to a different venue. People start to scatter, I end up with Theric and 2 of his boys at this very fancy exclusive place called Dragon Eye in LKF. It was way too classy for me. All of the people there were models, young playboy millionaires and HK celebs. So basically what I’m saying is I was the shortest white girl there, the only girl who wasn’t anorexic, and the only non-blonde. Not exactly my scene.

2:00- Convince Theric that he is much to ill to stay out much longer and drag him to Tribeca in Wan Chai. He really was sick, he looked like he’d been recently hit by a train and wasn’t drinking because he’d been prescribed some serious antibiotics.

Anshel, Derek, H and their assorted crew are at Tribeca, which is on the same level of swanky as Finds, but with louder music, big circular couches and free vodka drinks.
4:15- Having thinned out the crowd significantly, D, H, Mike and I head out in search of food. Mike is a contemporary Ron Burgundy. He is a reporter, works for TVB, and really tried to make H and I understand that he was shall I say ‘kind of a big deal’. He gave me his card. Hannah tried to eat it. I found it in my purse just now, all impressive and with H’s dental imprints on it. We end up in that dangerous situation of going somewhere local. Fantastic hole in the wall place full of natives, music videos and a wireless mic that just got passed around a lot, fish balls and dice. The boys taught H and I how to play the Chinese dice game. Its sort of like a mix between Yahtzee and the card game Bullsh*t, but with betting and drinking. Lots of Americans vs. Australian competitions are held, as Mike is a Cali boy and D and H are aussies.

6:00- H and I realize we still haven’t been fed. The boys take us back to the Flying Pan, the same waffle-housesque eatery Theric took me to last week. I order grits and horrify everyone. Mike could not get over it. H and D were fascinated. Everyone tried them, questioned their content. I practically licked the bowl clean they were so fricking fantastic.

7:30- Time to head home. Tearful goodbyes. Derek is headed back to the outback first thing on Tuesday. We shall miss him greatly.

7:45- Abby and H crawl back into Wei Lun and crash. Hannah gets the prize for the evening, her final score was 26hrs awake on no more than 4hrs of sleep.

You stay classy San Francisco-

Abby