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Gnawing at the Rectitude of Life
And, at long last, we come to it: the Last Day of School. But lest anyone think that this weekend may be an occasion to relax and unwind from a long, exhausting school year, far from it! Tonight, the Special Lady Friend has her bachelorette party, while I will most likely spend the evening on the couch in a fetal position, swilling gin and desperately trying not to imagine her stuffing dollar bills in male strippers’ g-strings.
Most people know that Sunday is Father’s Day, but did you know that not one but two equally important holidays occur tomorrow? Bloomsday is a holiday dedicated to James Joyce’s acclaimed novel, Ulysses, in which all events take place on June 16th, 1904. Tomorrow, people in Dublin and in college towns all over the world will dress up like Joyce, drink Guinness, and pretend to have both read the novel and understood it.
Here in Seattle, tomorrow also happens to be the day of the Fremont Solstice Festival. A friend of the SLF who lives in Fremont is throwing a party to mark the occasion. We’re planning on attending, despite our almost certain mutual hangover, as our impending departure from Seattle means that this is the last time* we’ll ever be treated to the retina-burning spectacle of naked hippies on bicycles.
*Hopefully.
