347

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Of course, when I got the room 347 at my hotel in Cambridge, I should have known that it was a good sign (with 3 and 7 being my lucky numbers.)

My group of co-workers ended up going to Jacques Carabet on Broadway at Piedmont. It's a gay bar that does karaoke on Tuesday nights - it's also known for it's female impersonators day in and day out. From the other gay folks that we encounted at our conference, Jacques didn't sound like it was going to be busy. But isn't that how we like our karaoke bars?

Immediately, I called Melissa and asked her if she remembered the time that I took her and a few other co-workers to a drag show in San Francisco. I took them to the Tranny Shack at the Stud (on a Tuesday night) and we were there for what we hoped was a good drag show, and it was, albeit it was a drag king contest. It's not everyday that you get to take your co-workers to a drag show, and it's not everyday that you can drag the office to a gay and lesbian karaoke bar.

We took like ducks to water. It was a blast. Co-workers combatted their fears of performing in front of others and others, like Lisa and I, just performed for the crowd. There now is video of me doing Ray of Light, and I told my co-worker who captured it on camera that if it ends up on youtube.com, she owes me lunch.

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Mike Hillwig said…
Cambridge, MA? And you didn't let me know you were coming?
05:22
Casey said…
My counsel has adviced me not to post any of the evidence from the evening online, but if you're nice to me, you might get a private showing of the footage.
13:56
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