Mimi and the Angry Inch

18Apr10

Hello hello! I’m back. It seems like forever since I last blogged. To be honest I’ve been boring lately and haven’t really had any hot, exciting events occur in my life…that is until last Friday when on an average ordinary work day I met Michelle, who is not so average or ordinary. Michelle came in to the day spa for some pampering and grooming. Being that I’m the brazilian queen I was lucky enough to get Michelle as my client! I never usually have any issues with such a personal waxing treatment, but this one was amazing. Right away Michelle and I clicked. She was incredible…INCREDIBLE!

I learned that Michelle is an established writer and was a guest at the resort that I work at. Then she told me about this group of writers that she’s touring with. I was fascinated…and even more fascinated that she invited me to see her groups performance the next day.

I was giddy with excitement leading up to the performance. It was on the local college campus in a cozy theater. I got there early and found my seat, unfortunately I was alone due to a timing mishap with my a friend that I had invited. Right away Michelle spots me. “Heeeey!” we hug and then she calls across the theater to a really cute girl in a stylish dress “this is Mimi, the girl I told you about” the stylish girl perks up “oooooohhhh you’re the girl from the hotel!” another person from the group says “we all heard about your bonding time with Michelle’s legs in the air” by this time all eyes are on me…no one else here knows that I wax vaginas for a living. It’s about this time that I notice the two girls in front of me playing tonsil hockey. Then I look around…the theater is full of the cutest lesbians I’ve ever seen…omg I’m the only straight person in here! Suddenly I feel like I look straight…whatever that means, but thats how I feel. Maybe Michelle’s story of us bonding with her legs in the air might help me blend in.

While trying to blend in I meet an amazing man named Silas…amazing can easily be replaced with hot, smart, charming, stylish. The show starts and I’m trying to figure out how this man fits into a lesbian themed show. And it hits me…he’s gay. Friggin figures, all the cute, stylish ones are gay men! Damn it…yes yes I’m married but damn it anyway! haha

The show is awesome. I really enjoyed it and felt inspired by it (just that morning I received a rejection letter from a poetry publisher). The show is near over and then its time for Silas to share his work. As I sat there listening and really enjoying his story I felt the room start to spin first slowly then faster and faster. I heard the words, but couldn’t articulate it…the beautiful Silas was born a woman. I have absolutely no problem with that, I’m pretty open-minded and excepting. What shocked me was that I had NO idea. NONE. Impressive.

The show was great, my new-found friends were amazing and Michelle, well I can’t find words to describe how awesome she is. When I was a kid I wanted to be adopted by the Brady Bunch, now I want Michelle and her rad friends to adopt me.

Later that night when I got home I wrote a single question in my journal: Am I gay?

XOXO Mimi

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