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Monday, July 26, 2004
My Weekend My weekend started out well enough... went to the Common Ground for a few hours with Joshua Friday night. His boyfriend bagged out at the last minute, which is a real bummer cause I love hanging out with both of them. I had a good time, ran into some people that I know... some I hadn't seen in months. A lot of new faces out, a lot of new guys... "This must be the new fall line," I overheard someone say... Ahh, the joys of living in a college town. Saturday I was in a funk. I'm not sure what brought it on. I was supposed to go to a birthday party in the afternoon and then another party later at night. But Cheri called and wanted to go shopping out of town so I agreed to do that with her. I just wasn't in a party kind of mood and even though it would have been nice to see them all, I just couldn't handle seeing so many people all at once. I owe them all an apology email since I also didn't call to tell them I wasn't coming. Very poor form on my part. So Cheri and I went to eat at Olive Garden... I had the three meat ravioli. Then we walked Arnot Mall. On our way out of the mall I ended up getting the Shrek Sherbet from Baskin-Robbins which was a swirl of green apple and grape ice cream with pop rocks mixed in. (Would have been fantastic sans pop rocks.) Then, on to Sam's for a lengthy browsing... and where I HAD to get the HUGE, 32 ounce, Cola Icee. Back in Ithaca soon after, Jason and his friend invited me to join them for dinner... I wasn't super hungry but looked forward to the low-key company. A chicken souvlaki plate and a purity ice cream strawberry sundae was enough to put me out of commission and in bed by 10:30. I felt like such a pig! Sunday morning I talked to mom... she was telling me that my brother is having relationship trouble and that I needed to call him so he'd have someone to talk to. Ran into Jason and his friend again... got coffee at Gimme! Walked down to Jack's and helped him do yardwork for a little bit. (So much fun... I miss being someplace I can work outside and get my hands a little dirty.) After yardwork, Jack and I went to the LGBT Community Picnic at Treman park... definitely more 'G' than 'L'. The food was OK, and all they had for alcohol was beer... which I normally don't drink. I stuck to lemonade as much as I could... unless people were putting beers in my hand and then I sipped to be polite. But there were tons of people, more people I hadn't seen in a really long time... But even as I was trying to enjoy myself at the picnic, some people were just plain obnoxious. I will spare the details of the worst thing that happened. I hate drama... but I'll speak to some of the others for a moment. Please, please, please keep your penis in your pants... I saw more penises Sunday afternoon than I cared to. People showing them off in the bathroom... people with them out AT THE FRONT DOOR of the Common Ground. Have some decency, people. That's what they plant bushes for. And seriously... FYI, if you hit on me, I'll be flattered. But I'm not the kind of person that's going to stick my tongue down your throat or touch you inappropriately in the first five minutes. So if that's what you're looking for, I'll wish you good luck... and I'll point you in the direction of the guy that's trashed and barely wearing any clothes. *deep sigh* Sometimes, small city gay life drives me crazy... This is my dating pool. Anyway... I went back to Jack's and we listened to the new soundtrack to De-Lovely... great CD and I will probably get a copy of it myself. Following that, I was happy to take a long walk home, get some air, and really process my weekend. And now it's Monday...  | private feedback | |
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