Entry184 (I have edited a few names, a place, and my method for recalling trances and such, but the rest is straight from the journal.) I got back an hour and ten minutes ago, and I haven’t pieced things together by using my (omitted), but this is what I know. I know my feet are wet. I went to the bathroom in a small dirty bathroom. I really kind of realized myself while flushing. I stood, to freshen up in what was left of the mirror on the wall. The little bulb really wasn’t bright enough to check your makeup, but in this case it was easy. I had wild hair- teased and sprayed, and it smelled like cigarettes. I had a dark tan, from a darker Covergirl than I usually use. I own it, but I haven’t used it in months. Well that’s not true now I guess. Thick mascara and overdone blush, and a sparkly ruby lipstick with lip liner, and! My eyes were done up, with a sort of a purplish blue in the insides, and becoming sort of a slivery yellow to the outsides, swooping up past my eyebrows. I stared at that for 5 minutes easy, cuz, it was a wild look, not me at all, and it was professionally done. How weird is that? I was wearing a rayon blouse; wide stripes up and down I mean vertical, black bright blue and bright red. I suppose it was nice, but in a cheap way. It has a large collar like a seventies’ thing going on. My pearl colored fingernails were still there, but I have no idea where the red fake leather skirt came from. It wasn’t even a latex, it was like “Not-a-hide” or whatever, cheap, and spotted with mud like from cars. I almost expected to see fishnets but I had on my black stocks with the lacy thigh ring. I wish they’d been higher or the trashy miniskirt a hair longer. The little black plastic heels with the narrow 3-inch heels were on me and I haven’t seen them since I danced in Florida last summer at the erotic dance contest with my friends. My feet had mud on them as did my hose, and I was kinda wet and definitely cold. I asked the Chinese lady or Korean, whatever, running the gas station, and she said I was at Hwy 97, near Lexington! I was scared. I was cold. And the two men trying to pool their money to buy a pack of cigarettes were like slobbering on themselves. OK, that’s kinda neat in a dark way, but I wasn’t feeling neat. The only thing on that road right there are three or four small family owned hotels or motels. I am terrified but I need to go back there, dressed similarly, at around the same time, and see if anyone recognizes me, and find out more. I called Jen at the dive club and Jaro wanted to know if I was coming in to dance. I said no, and asked Jen to come and get me. Jaro said she couldn’t leave or she’d be fired, unless, , , He’s a bastard but I needed to get home! So I said yes, I would dance. Jen’s little hoopty, she calls it her “ho” (it’s a Honda) sputtered into the parking lot around the time a policeman was asking me why I was there, and how “business” had been. I have never felt so humiliated. Jen freaked at the way I was dressed. I told her the whole story, and she said she’d ask some dancers she knew that escorted too, and learn anything about those motels. Jaro freaked at my dress too- but soooo not the same way! He said I could dance in that, and I was afraid to borrow anyone’s stuff there- not a hygienic group there, like in Florida. Fortunately it was almost one, so I danced for an hour or so, made fifteen dollars, got two free drinks, and turned down a lapdance, “cuz I wasn’t on the clock” passing him off to Tease for an easy ten dollars- ick. I think I had been walking or dancing a while in those shoes before the gas station, and I think I had been wearing the skirt for a little while, at least somewhere warm cuz (omitted). I also think I had sex, and that’s the only reason this hasn’t turned into an intensely erotic event- I kinda like to know when I’m having sex, or else it’s like rape or pimping or whatever. NOTE TO SELF: Jen said call Guy at the “motel” and ask him about the blue thread.