Filed under: blogging
I'm in a rather bellicose mood today, so damn the torpedoes and…..
Cool gray limestone on a light Summer night,
Bare feet gliding along moss covered banks,
We shed our clothes below a Barley Moon,
And slowly slid into the dark green river.
Warm water slipped around your slender legs,
Quickly hiding your perfect nakedness,
It’s wetness, barely hiding yours.
You stood there resisting only the river’s flow,
As I entered where all was darkly new,
While the water washed away our imagined sin.
We laid our bodies upon some grass,
It’s greenness only muted by the night,
And the kind September air dried away the water,
Finishing our final flight from innocence.
Filed under: blogging
You can blame Jeremiah or Steph for this posting. It was like an assignment and I need that right now. I'm too busy to think of something on my own.
Top Five Ways to Make Me Frown
- Break a promise
- Show up late
- Treat me like I’m stupid
- Be negative all of the time
- Act old
Top Five People Who Have Changed My Life
- Judy Caldwell Flanigan
- a/b Tim & John Fish
- Maxim Vorbiev
- Arthur Nicholls/Jeremiah Cohick
- Lewis “Sonny” French
Top Five Emotions I Have Felt
- Longing
- Humor
- Grief
- Worry
- Admiration
Top Five Ways to Be More Like Me
- Encourage others
- Have Passion (for anything)
- Be clumsy
- Try to be funny and make others laugh
- Cry easily
Top Five Things I Believe With All My Heart and Soul
- There are no absolutes
- There are no absolutes
- There are no absolutes
- There are no absolutes
- There are no absolutes
Top Five Things I Wish Would Just Disappear
- The Bush Family
- Nuclear Weapons
- Poverty
- Envy
- The Bush Family
Top Five Things That Scare Me
- George Bush
- Jeb Bush
- The Religious Right (Actually any extreme religious group Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc.)
- Nuclear Weapons
- George Bush
Top Five Rules My Parents Enforced on Me
- Be Polite
- Be Honest
- Be Fair
- Be Clean
- Be Funny
Top Five Ways to Make Me Smile
- Tell me you like my kids
- Get my jokes
- Tell me you’ve never noticed how blue my eyes are
- Pour me another glass of Red Wine
- Quote from one of my favorite films
Filed under: Rant
Bush's Job Approval In Historical Perspective
by Chris Bowers
Gallup has a terrible new poll for Bush: 31% approve, 65% disapprove. Since the main benefit of the Gallup poll are its trendlines stretching back more than sixty years, here are some facts about this poll in historical perspective:
• A net approval of -34 is worse than the low suffered by either Jimmy Carter (-31) or Bush's father (-31). Only Truman and Nixon ever fared worse.
• Since 1950, this is the lowest job approval for a President facing midterm elections by more than ten points.
• This is the first poll showing Bush's disapproval to be more than twice the size of his approval.
• This is the lowest approval rating for Bush in any public surveysince the start of his term.
• A disapproval of 65% ties for the second highest ever recorded.The highest ever recorded was just one point higher, 66%, for Richard Nixonin August of 1974, about one week before he resigned.
It is now reasonable to start talking about Bush in the 20's, and Bush breaking the all-time record for job disapproval.
Filed under: Layers
1 Eight ounce cup of Starbucks coffee = $2.70
1 Eight ounce cup of Regular unleaded gasoline = $0.19
Last week was an interesting week. I did so much. I had a quite few great lunches with friends. Max on Monday, Tuesday it was Jeremiah, Lourdes on Wednesday, and Randy on Thursday. Friday I was so busy wrapping up my business at work, that I skipped lunch. The lunchtime events or the discussions were very dynamic and fun.
Monday’s lunch with Max and his new boyfriend was a challenge. (He’ll kill me for writing this) Maybe I’m too fond of Max to be a good judge, but these guys seemed mismatched. I could not get the new guy to engage in conversation. He made me feel obtuse, when I’m pretty sure he was the phlegmatic one.
Tuesday, I had a really sweet lunch with Jeremiah. I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much time alone with him and it surely was special. He had been under a lot of pressure with the end of the school year, and I was worried about him. His blog entry from a few days before our lunch, really concerned me. I finally realized, over lunch, that we share some characteristics, a nervous energy and our need to worry about others. I was at lunch to see how he was doing and I think he was doing the same for me. The advice he gave me was so dead on right. It sort of shocked me, that he understood me so well. Of course his conduit/boyfriend spends enough time with me, that I shouldn’t be shocked. Now if I could only follow JC’s sage advice, I might be happier.
It was great to see Lourdes. She has to be my favorite ex-employee, and I have quite a few ex-employees, I’m sorry to say. I came out to her and she was completely shocked. I am surprised that she didn’t figure it out before. We had lunch a month or so ago and I almost told her then, but chickened out. I threw some hints then, but she didn’t see it. During lunch, I think she realized she had missed the signs while she was working with me. Maybe I missed the signs too.
The lunch with Randy was great too. We went to a brew pub and sat outdoors. It was a beautiful day. We talked about so many things. He is moving to LA. (I hear he is already on his way) He’s so bright and hardworking, I know he’ll succeed. I don’t think he wants to go, but there are no real opportunities in Boston. Emerson hasn’t really treated him well. Of course Emerson is basically amoral when it comes to things like that. So what the heck? I told him he was doing he right thing. I believed it, I just hate to see him go.
In the end, it was a series of lunches with people that have or are moving on. So it fit into my transitional phase right now. The lunches made me happy, but made me long too, made me think about how many people I truly miss every day. I fall in love so easily, and never fall out. Pleasurable regret.
Filed under: Layers
I’ve made it to Provincetown. It is hard for me to even believe that I am here. Just a few weeks ago I would have laughed at anyone if they even suggested the possibility, yet here I am. And you know what? So far so good. I’ve been here four days and the time has passed quickly. There is so much to do. The hotel needs some help and I’m not lamenting. It needs some changing and I’m going to be able to effect that change. In the short time I’ve been here I feel like I’ve made a difference.
There is much for me to do. I have to make sure hotel is physically in shape to take guests. I have to manage the staff, I have to learn the local politics and business culture, for my personal survival and for the sake of the hotel too. I have to help take reservations and check in guests. And all of this has to be integrated into a system that makes sense. I think its going to be fun, a great big challenge, but fun.
Of course the personal challenges are intriguing also. This is a very Gay town! “Not that there is anything wrong with that.” Its very tolerant place and I seem pretty straight in comparison to most of the people I’m around now. This too will be an interesting experiment for me. And there is a beach across the street.
