- My first “masher”
- My first “skirt”
- My first party at the Tiki Bar
- My first guest back to the Brownstone
I am in my steep learning curve and today was an intensive studying day. Back to back classes through NCI in clothing, and one later on SL businesses. I made my first flexi skirt and through sheer beginners luck my experimentation in wind-gravity-etc of the properties produced a skirt that billows and stays full. It needs tweaking in many minor things, but I’m sure that I could have experimented for days and still not had the floating yet firm quality it has. I tried it out at the Club Sky and the Tiki Bar Disco night. I was truly stunned when I won the prize money (1 of 2) for the best disco outfit. Truly I slapdashed together a top, and took the alpha version of my skirt out on the town. I am earmarking that money for my store rental…. MY SKIRT …. earned money with my very first design. Christian Sirano … move over 
At Club Sky I was asked to dance by …. now what was his name? He was very nice in his approach, and the couples dance started out with one of those slow pairs twirlies. BUT he must have changed the dance selection because after one rep of that, it changed into the huggie-feelie-eeeeggghhh. Just like RL, a bait and switch. Unlike RL, one can always bolt inworld with some RL excuse… real or otherwise. I may be just an avatar, but I truly felt creeped out – when he moved his hand to my butt, I wanted a “step on the toes” gesture ….or something. I wonder … do more people bring their emotional baggage inworld than leave it behind and experience different sense of freedom. Afterall – there is no reason not to be the hottest hunk in SL if you want. No girl is going to reject you because you are short, fat and pimply. So maybe he got the girl for the first time…. who knows. I do have a shudder or two thinking about what the man/woman behind the avatar might have been doing.
My reward for all my hard work was the Disco Night at the Tiki Bar. I missed last week’s party, and literally rushed back in RL from errands to be on time for the last hour. It was a blast. It was an all girl party, except for the DJ Cruz Halberd. oo ooo ooo Cruz. We all seemed to be of an age to have remembered the real Disco era, it was laid back, and the convo was of a caliber much higher than …”WoooHOOOooo” or variations. And I confess, I love remembering dancing like that, although my extension was never that high… and there was never a dance crew that in sync. In RL, there is always the girl who has to break unity to show she can lift her leg higher than everyone else, and then the whole group just looks weak. Great Event Cruci & Salima!!!
After my evening class, *sauntering out of the classroom oh so so chicly*, I went back to Club Sky and Renlobo Renfro and I teleported in at the same time, to have discovered there were no hangers on after the main party. We started chatting, and I ended up taking her back to Galveston Island for look-see. She liked it a lot, even though I couldn’t take her inside my house. She might rent a condo. It is my plan. Promote GI living to all my SL friends. I have 3 brownstones and about a dozen condos to go. According to Renlobo, the prices are reasonable. I have no idea. As I told her, I stumbled onto it looking for cheap clothes, and followed the ad for “Everything 25$L”.
I am also going to IM a nooby who was in my NCI business class. It was literally her first day, and there she was in class to learn about starting an SL business. I am three weeks behind her. I am going to tell her about my old hammock spot under the Tiki Bar Boardwalk. Hey, a noob can’t do better – you can sit in the stool, rez your stuff, and then nap away… all for free. Who knows, she might be nice.
