12/12/98

“Oh my god! A LOT happened today. Well, I’m not going to say what happened during the last four days, it was just school. Today was Jacque’s bat mitzvah! I wore my long black skirt, (me and Mara were the only ones wearing long skirts) and my white camisole with the purple cardigan over it that everyone loved. Nora wore the same exact one except white with quarter length sleeves! I also wore my 3.5 inch black shoes, the pair I wore to Syd’s, and I also left them in Miami. So Jacque and Vanessa were bat mizvahed, ‘bnot’-mitzvahs are rare. My first time going to a b’not. Anyway, the service was long and boring. We took a bus to the Hotel Majestic, and went in. The space was pretty small, and we sat at our tables for about 2 hours. I was sitting next to Mara (we talked a lot), Syline, and Christina and Brittany were also at our table, along with Leah’s Ben Blatteis, Willy and his brother Max who looks exactly like Hayley, and 2 other weirdos. Oh yeah, Leah went with Ben to SF Day’s school dance, she said it was fun, they danced a lot, she saw Vanessa Traina there, Sophia and Faye, and…Andy. Anyway, back to the bat mitzvah. The chalah was the only good thing to eat. The noodles were nasty, and so were the hors d’oerves. The dance floor was realllly small, but it worked well. We danced a lot, and there were some slow songs/dances. This is the good part. So, in the beginning of the dancing part of the party, Ben, Ben Springwater asked Mara to dance! I know Mara likes Ben, so I was happy for her, and….a little jealous. Well, at the other slow songs, Mara waited for him to ask her again, but he didn’t. About the last slow song, totally unexpectedly, Ben comes up to ME and asks ME to dance with him!!! This was my first slow dance ever, and I kind of knew how. He is so tall! But I like slow dances because all you need to do is just move your feet from side to side. Ryan and Mark, and of course, Steven and Nora were dancing too, but not many other people. I was so nervous the whole time, but REALLY happy!! I was chewing Doublemint gum, Syline’s, just a little reminder of what I was doing at the time since I forgot the song name. By the end of the dance, I hoped Mara wasn’t mad at me. I don’t think she was, but she might be. That was one of the best experiences of my life. Oh my god I’m still in shock. Ok, I have to go now, bye!”