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pridefest_2003_milwaukee
Mahayana 6/8/2003 Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Pride Festival
Henry Maier Festival Park

its gonna suck going by myself this year, although id really enjoy seeing melissa ferrick in concert again. so much has changed in these past two years it is unbelievable.

there are four things that make me particularly sad when i see people going at it alone: eating at a restaurant alone, movies alone, music concerts alone, and festivals alone... alone alone alone oh well perhaps this will be my stepping stone towards changing my analysis of alone-ness ... you wouldn't think its a big deal however its challenging to try to make friends again to just go and hang out with others esp. after 7-8 years of being tucked away from any friends whatso-ever, and being plagued with oh too many self doubts that im even worth being around ... i doubt my friend-abilities- i think im too uninteresting ...anyhow i suppose if i wasnt so consumed by my studies id have more opportunities to be social however the assholeish guys in my classes at tech school do not make the prospects of having a social life all to appealing... sort of makes you wanna run the opp direction towards the hermit holes ... anyhow ... ive decided alone or not im going to pridefest this year ... why... cuz i need to prove to myself that im an ok of a person and that i can give it a go ... if even by myself .... but it would have been more enjoyable to go to a concert with someone else ... oh well ... well see what happens... cuz you never know.

[melissa ferrick- here i come]
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Mahayana "Isn't it June yet?

Just a few more weeks until PrideFest!

For those of you who don't know, it's among one of the biggest Pride Celebration in the nation! 3 days of entertainment, dancing, food and fun.

Held on the Summerfest grounds, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, PrideFest® attracts more than 20,000 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and yes, even straight people to the shore of Lake Michigan for a Pride celebration unlike any other!

Of course, there's a fabulous parade as well. When our dazzlingly diverse community pulls out all the stops and takes to the streets, it's an event not to be missed."

http://www.pridefest.com/festival/entertainment.html
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unhinged i wish i was coming up to milwaukee a few weeks early. i'm moving up on june 22nd. i got an assistantship to uwm :) maybe if you don't want to go to pridefest 2004 alone, we can chill. jeez yana, your hair is getting long.


milwaukee, here i come. for good this time.
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Mahayana hey youre gonna just miss the festives by an inch of your nose ... thats too bad youll just have to simmer till next June :]

hey have a safe & beautiful trip this up & coming june 22nd.

congrats to you on your assistantship I am sure itll be a most positive move for yourself/your studies/ and that ever lingering musiccallness that is just oh so you... hey if youre up for it next year 2004 I should be going to Pridefest with Sarah [hopefully by then shell be here- if all goes as planned that summer] we can def. chill.

Yeah, I know my hair is getting long, its grows so fast and since I had my head shaved ultra low I must have had three hair cuts as well... hair and nails grow supa fast on me.

Ill be sure to get the word out to milwaukee and fellow brady-streeters,... yah know... warn em of your coming and all.
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unhinged and make sure you tell that older guy with the glasses and the file folder full of political cartoons at comet that he owes me a cigarette. since they are so bleepin expensive up in wisconsin. i think my excitement is beginning to outweigh my fear. new place, new friends, new times.


YES
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