I can't tell you how many catcalls I got last night as Leia. Apparently every guy our age has had fantasies about her, or something. I was waiting for the bus with my roommate and this guy leans out of his truck window across the street and yells, "PRINCESS LEIA, I AM YOUR LUKE SKYWALKER!" (Um, you're my
brother?) And on the bus, three guys struck up conversation with me and my roommate, which never happens, and wanted to come to our party with us. Somehow we deflected it without telling them it was a church dance (why didn't we just say we were going to a church dance? I don't know--somehow it didn't come up--one asked, "where are you going?" thinking it was some bar and my roommate said, "Cambridge." The guy just kind of looked at us and after a while said, "Uh, yeah, we know that place! We're going there too! Maybe we'll see you there!" and we never clarified it after that).
It was funny. It's been a while since I've been catcalled.
OH! Forgot to mention that when I got to the dance, there WAS a Luke Skywalker there. And he had an extra blaster, so I even got to have my picture taken with him and holding a blaster.