Tonight is big ambiguously gay outing with my step brother tonight, and tonight’s venue will be a nice play at the playhouse in the park. It’s a lot of fun going out with my ex-step brother because every time, and I mean every time we go out people think we’re gay. We went to the movies, and then to a really nice Italian restraint the waitress thought we were ‘together’. It didn’t help there was an actual gay couple behind us, and that I still look strikingly like I’m 17.
So we play around with peoples minds when they start to think that. My ex-step brother, whose back on the market, will play with the waitresses saying he’s not gay, and then I’ll thwart his attempt to make them believe otherwise by acting offended that he’s ashamed of me. It’s fantastic fun, but still kind of disheartening to think that I’m instantly pegged as being gay. I need to start keeping my fiancé around when I go out so people don’t get the wrong impression, but again who really cares? I enjoy hanging out with my ex-step brother and becoming more cultured.
Tonight the play is about a woman who becomes so sleep deprived she risks it all by traveling to Venice in search of a world renowned sleep therapist, and the adventures along the way. I’m anxiously looking forward to it. Plays are interesting, they get you out of your house, and you get to watch adults pretend to be other people. I imagine this, during the renaissance period, was very similar to going into a chat-room in today’s age pretending to be someone else.
Anyway, it’s still rainy as hell outside. I left my coat in my fiancés car when I went out for her birthday dinner, so needless to say I’ve been getting soaked going into work every morning. Unfortunately, it’s seemed to have caught up to me as I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather.
In interesting news I got an email from my long time estranged ex-fiancé, who is going through a divorce, and started to ask me about my life once more. The sad thing was she also mentioned she’s been giving elusions to the movie with Julia Roberts called ‘My best friends wedding’, and I’m assuming this can only mean she is trying to come back in her own weird way. She’s now a mother of three, from two different men, and now a divorcée who is pregnant with her fourth child. No thanks. I’ve only recently started to manage a normal life and I really am not interested in going back to an emotionally chaotic relationship with someone whose loyalty is only as strong as the inverse ration to her own libido. Not to mention someone who’s vindictive, manipulating, and did I mention the kids? I’ve got nothing against her now, but really have a hard time believing I lived in Las Vegas near her for all that hassle. I had to rant about it.
Today is another interesting day because here at my client site two long term IT professionals have decided to leave. They’ve been working here upwards of eighteen years and are leaving the company. There is a lot of that going on around here with layoffs, early retirements, and the influx of new contractors. They’re in a state of turmoil with the industry going south, economy, and the general lack of stability in the company as a whole. I wish everyone here luck. I can easily say this is the most fantastic group of people I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. I feel like I’ve been here a long time, and almost feel at home among everyone who works here.
On another front I have surgery in t-minus four days. We’ll see how that turns out.