One-Sentence Highlights From Brent's Life 8/9 - 11/6/12

8/9/12

It was a highly productive day at work, and Glo was out sick that day which may or may not be related to me being so productive.

　

8/10/12

When I got home that night, there were a couple of 23 year-old guys over.

　

8/11/12

Netflix recently de-listed the DVD for the movie adaptation of the Dennis Cooper novel Frisk, so I got a membership at Nationwide Video and rented it there.

　

8/12/12

Joy at Lakeview Church Of Christ (Andrew Langford's girlfriend) is leaving Chicago apparently so everyone gathered around and told her how much she means to them.

　

8/13/12

Went to Paradise because it was rainy and there were a lot of guys there, probably because it was rainy.

　

8/14/12

The highly anticipated Asexual documentary at the Sex-Positive Film Series was every bit as good as I thought it'd be.

　

8/15/12

Started working on a new writing project, Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children Macnuggits released the "Life Is Excellent" video, the bikram instructor reminded me of Very Mary-Kate.

　

8/16/12

At work I started working on an awful project of questionable merit with Valerie.

　

8/17/12

Don from next door yelled at me, which was not a good way of introducing his vision for a back-rooftop-deck beautification project, and the eyes could not be stopped from rolling when he said his next step would be to file a police report, lol.

　

8/18/12

Woke up in the morning wondering whether the Contentment In Everyday Life class at The Shambhala Center started at 8:30 or 9:00, so I wasn't sure I would make it but I did (it started at 9:30) and it was fantastic, just like everyone said it'd be.

　

8/19/12

The second day of Contentment In Everyday Life was good, and then at Queer Dharma in the evening we did contemplation on the five skandhas which was intense and amazing and people loved it.

　

8/20/12

Wasn't sure what I'd do after work, but when I got off the train the pocket-gay who runs the projector at the Lakeview Church Of Christ got off the same train at the same station so I followed him for several blocks and he passed by Big Chicks but I stopped in for $1 burger night.

　

8/21/12

I'm aware that I got to work at like 8:50 in the morning maybe two or three times recently, but the word "late" never enters my mind, and I also realize it's the office manager's job to make the word "late" enter into my mind just like it's my job to pretend like I have lofty intentions of doing everything perfectly.

　

8/22/12

At Jill's exercise class, we did one of those 10, 9, 8, etc. repeater classes and when I was doing the 10, 9, 8 reps it seemed impossible, but when I was down to the 5, 4, 3, 2 reps I felt really strong and powerful.

　

8/23/12

Felt particularly horny all day, especially during bikram, so I'd been thinking of going to Mans Country and getting the room with the computer and internet access which is what I did but then around midnight I was looking at Facebook and Billy Aikens who has a long history of disrupting the contentment I feel with my own life Tweeted a photo of Cher at Splash Bar NYC so everytime that Mans Country played a Cher song that night (which was several times) I felt more discontent with my life.

　

8/24/12

*DERON???

The All-CEDA meeting held this year at The Third Baptist Church building at 95th & Ashland went okay, the highlight for me being the speech by DeRon, an alum of CEDA's educational talent search program and dancer on Madonna's last tour (someone whose dance moves I actually emulate because Madonna emulated them).

　

8/25/12

With everything I did all day, the C.T.A. was a motherfucking thorn in my side, and I've always felt about the C.T.A. how parents must feel with their children, sometimes good experiences and sometimes bad experiences but there's a basic love, but recently my opinion has become more like, "Fuck Chicago. I want to leave this city."

　

8/26/12

I discussed the novel Native Son by Richard Wright with Marvin, Virginia, and Laura.

　

8/27/12

Finally spent >$200 (before tax) at Native Foods Café and earned my first $10 credit.

　

8/28/12

I felt such a need to do bikram at 6:00 in the morning, but it wasn't a very good experience.

　

8/29/12

Glee season 3 disk 2 which I watched last week was good, but Glee season 3 disk 3 (which includes the awful awful Michael Jackson episode) was not good.

　

8/30/12

I'd somehow thought that the office at my storage place stayed open until 7:00p (it didn't) but I talked with John Hannes on the bus over to it.

　

8/31/12

Met Keith and we drove to Cedar Point campground and Mazo Beach.

　

9/1/12

Camping was pretty good, lots of spiritual realizations listening to the trees, and left the beach to go back home that night even though I really wanted to stay.

　

9/2/12

My uncle Gary died shortly after being taken off life-support.

　

9/3/12

Laura's 31st birthday dinner.

　

9/4/12

Ordered my 2013 calendar custom-printed from my Flickr photos.

　

9/5/12

Heard Michelle Obama's DNC speech and thought a lot about the "satisfaction of a hard day's work" part and it really boosted my productivity at work at least for the one day.

　

9/6/12

Rode the bus and train with AvilleSean, after work went to running workout in Oz park, got home and watched Glee (while Dan watched the DNC) and enjoyed Kurt's "Music Of The Night / Not The Boy Next Door".

　

9/7/12

Decided no to doing the Shambhala Level 2, decided yes to hot tub and macaroni & cheese.

　

9/8/12

Got so much done (including assembling the piano) before going to roller derby.

　

9/9/12

On my way to Paradise, there was a parade happening on Montrose.

　

9/10/12

I started to get annoyed with the Chicago teachers union.

　

9/11/12

A guy on the train was telling everyone a story about himself and asking for money, saying he would do anything to earn it, and I really wanted to pay him for sex.

　

9/12/12

Called in sick to work, the only thing I had to eat all day was a bag of Candy Corn Oreos with milk and the whole time I was eating it, Dan was telling me his dream of saving up $200,000 in the next ten years and building something like the Earth-ships in New Mexico, so I hope he's some kind of insane genius becuase he's definitely insane.

　

9/13/12

It hurt my feelings to find out there had been free food (from multiple places) the day before while I was away.

　

9/14/12

I'm becoming more sympathetic with the Chicago teachers union everyday.

　

9/15/12

Got a message that Tommy and Andrew were visiting so I spent the day with Sheri and the Davises, and they gave me a bicycle.

　

9/16/12

I felt very attracted to a guy named Matt at Queer Dharma and Jon thought Matt was flirting with me too.

　

9/17/12

At work I'm helping the Records department put copies of checks into files all week long, then at 5:00 I sat in my cubicle surfing the internet because really I didn't have anything better to go home to.

　

9/18/12

When I was about to leave work I was checking Facebook one last time and saw a sidebar ad saying "Amy Goodman in Chicago 9/18" so I was like '9/18? That's today!' and I clicked on it and saw that she would be speaking at 6:00p at Columbia College for free so I went there and saw it which was inspiring.

　

9/19/12

Watched a bunch of television before going to Mans Country for a free night in celebration of their 40th anniversary, except it was $1 and only 3 hours, so whatever.

　

9/20/12

I've gone to every Madonna tour since I've been an adult, but I knew this time I was deciding not to go and I knew it'd be a stressful decision.

　

9/21/12

The highly anticipated documentary How To Survive A Plague opened at The Music Box Theater (highly anticipated as in seeing it on September 21 at the Music Box had been written into my schedule for over two months) and it was good, but I did hope for more.

　

9/22/12

I got my official membership pin at the Shambhala Center's Harvest Of Peace day.

　

9/23/12

So many things happened, still feeling blah about everything.

　

9/24/12

Saw The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart and guest Salman Rushdie, and it was the first time I ever actually watched that video of Romney's 47% speech.

　

9/25/12

Excellent exercise class.

　

9/26/12

Sallie Mae has been charging me > 12% interest, so I transferred most of that balance to a Chase Bank 0% until November 2013 promotion (with a 2% fee) which might pose some risk but I really do think it's a good move and I can be completely out of debt by November 2013.

　

9/27/12

Gloria was tired all day from being out at the Prince concert late, and I was moody but I just chilled instead of acting out.

　

9/28/12

David the guy I lived with's mother announced that her other son (whom David doesn't talk about) would be on Shark Tank (which is a television show I've watched for several months) with his business Liz Lovely Cookies (which are cookies I love) and I was excited about it all day.

　

9/29/12

I left the apartment to go to Slutwalk which was good.

　

9/30/12

In the morning I went to Urban Village Church for the first time, and in the evening Jon did his scheduled dharma talk about queerness.

　

10/1/12

I was trying to figure out the monthly report when I was told that auditors would be coming tomorrow so I needed to quit doing that and go help the records department some more.

　

10/2/12

The first news item I got in the morning announced the death of Sahara Davenport, so I was sad about that all day and thinking especially how sad it is when a drag queen dies.

　

10/3/12

Several times recently, I've had a hard time leaving my cubicle after work - like sometimes how people have a hard time getting out of bed, except with me it's logging off the internet and walking to the train - and then I've just wandered around the streets aimlessly, like Cain after he was cursed for murdering Abel.

　

10/4/12

At 1:00a I got up and went to Banana then to La Ranchita at 3 where I saw this year's Presidential debate 1; the sound wasn't on, but I thought they both looked botoxed.

　

10/5/12

Julia's art reception at Eyeporium was nice.

　

10/6/12

Virginia and I met for breakfast at Bongo Room which was nice and she told me about her newest problems, then she stopped into my place for a little while which was important to me because she's the first person I've known outside of my current apartment to visit it.

　

10/7/12

Lakeview Church Of Christ was so good that I signed up for their e-mail list, and in Queer Dharma we finally finished reading Lodro Rinsler's book Buddha Walks Into A Bar.

　

10/8/12

When Sheri / Jeff gave me the bicycle that someone else had bought at a yard sale and given them, I waited for my C.T.A. pass to expire then used the bicycle as my main transportation but that only lasted 2 days before I realized I'm not able to go back to hard-core bicycling right now so I took the money I'd budgeted for buying a bicycle helmet and used it instead for renewing my C.T.A. pass.

　

10/9/12

I was undecided about whether to go to the Sex-Positive Film Series or to do laundry, but then I read Clarisse's announcement that the Sex-Positive Film Series would be ending after December and I went to it, The Fall Of Womenland, and Clarisse is really bringing it with these last films.

　

10/10/12

The Mitt Romney presidential campaign has paid so much money to Facebook and Youtube that strange things occasionally happen, and in the morning on the scrolling, real-time sidebar at the right of the screen it said that someone had Facebook-liked Mitt Romney whom I did not expect to have Facebook-liked Mitt Romney so once I confirmed with him that he had never, in fact, Facebook-liked Mitt Romney I disabled my Facebook profile and gave the reason why as a political protest.

　

10/11/12

Ate at Panda.

　

10/12/12

I'd been thinking about trying to transcend my own personal ego and seeing life for what it really is, so I planned out this weekend when I wasn't doing anything else to consume marijuana and see if I could transcend space and time, but as marijuana weekend approached I felt afraid of what might happen so I walked around the Baha'i House Of Worship and asked for blessings.

　

10/13/12

It happened - in the morning I consumed marijuana and it was like an explosion inside my head transcending space and time.

　

10/14/12

Slept most of the day as planned, but also in the plan was feeling well enough in time to go to Queer Dharma which happened also.

　

10/15/12

After work I stopped into Linda Guadalajara and Lucy was there, then I texted my parents telling them to pray for me which freaked them out.

　

10/16/12

Went to Vie twice in one day, and when I got home Dan was watching this year's Presidential debate 2 on live television which seemed kind of raucous.

　

10/17/12

Was feeling better, joyous a little bit, about life - conversation with Reed, comedic performers in Steppenwolf parking garage, lounging out on the couch watching ABC sitcoms, meeting Jon at Kopi.

　

10/18/12

Called in sick to work, stayed home all day, shaved face and head.

　

10/19/12

Went to Halloween haunted house at Theater On The Lake with Jon, Laura, & Tara.

　

10/20/12

Jogging with Frontrunners group, and then did bikram.

　

10/21/12

It was the first time I told anyone about my plan to move out of Chicago, maybe to another city or back to Guymon for maybe a year or two.

　

10/22/12

Watched this year's Presidential debate 3 on live television while doing laundry at the laundromat.

　

10/23/12

It was the fifth day in a row of doing bikram, and I got a feeling of great bliss emptiness like I was having an acid flashback.

　

10/24/12

I decided to go to another group sex party even though the last few I went to were not that fun, and when I showed up there were several police officers there and we were told the sex party would start as soon as they cleared up some business which seemed ominous.

　

10/25/12

Slept in, so after work I was planning to go to the late bikram session but I didn't get there because bus tracker was inaccurate.

　

10/26/12

It was the first time I ever did bikram twice in one day, and it was both at the Lincoln Park studio, 6:00a and 6:30p.

　

10/27/12

Did not leave my apartment all day long, just hung out with gnats.

　

10/28/12

Did bikram, then planned to go to the Sunday morning meditation at the Shambhala Center and got on the bus with my wallet but did not have my wallet when I got off the bus.

　

10/29/12

Madonna was the guest on The Ellen Show and there was an "inspiring words" segment that I really loved; also, it was my first time ever doing bikram in the mezzanine room at the Lincoln Park Studio.

　

10/30/12

After work I went jogging along the lakefront with the gay runners group in spite of the Arctic cold front and the lakeside flood advisory.

　

10/31/12

I felt like a child (in a happy way) watching "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" although I wish it could've pre-empted Suburgatory instead of The Middle.

　

11/1/12

It was the first day of National Novel Writing Month, and while I did not actually write anything for NaNoWriMo I did make a spreadsheet for it because I like making spreadsheets for things more than I actually like doing those things.

　

11/2/12

Went to Prentice Women's Hospital near The Magnificent Mile to visit Virginia until it was time for her to be discharged and spent the rest of the day making sure she was okay.

　

11/3/12

Saw the 8:00p performance of Cyndi Lauper's Broadway musical Kinky Boots.

　

11/4/12

Excited that I was able to find my birth certificate in my storage unit.

　

11/5/12

Thursday I had a yoga mat in the morning but by the evening I'd somehow lost it without ever doing yoga that day, then the next morning since I was off work to be with Virginia I called Gloria and asked her to look for it telling her exactly where it'd be so she looked and said it wasn't there, then I bought another yoga mat for >$50 over the weekend only to get into work Monday morning to find my lost yoga mat exactly where I'd told Gloria.

　

11/6/12

From the time I left home and got to the polling place and then voted and got back home was less than one hour so it really wasn't that bad, but it was still the worst experience voting I've ever had, the election workers were just figuring things out and lots of people complaining because we're not accustomed to that level of human interaction.

One-sentence highlights from Brent's life 5/11 - 8/8/12

8/8/12

In the morning I went to an exercise class, then during noon I was at work demonstrating some of the exercises and I fell over which was incredibly hilarious.

　

8/7/12

Went to 7-11 for my favorite food, then bought some blueberries at the farmer's market which was also delicious.

　

8/6/12

Straightened out the bullshit with the rent, ate and drank a lot at Big Chicks $1 burger (and faux hot dog) night.

　

8/5/12

Heartstrong at Second Unitarian Church.

　

8/4/12

Stayed out all night having some good sex, then woke up at 2 in the afternoon and Dan the guy I live with was upset with me because the landlord said we were behind in rent, and I was all like, "Aww hells nawwwhh."

　

8/3/12

Got an unexpected bonus and it threw off my day trying to figure out how to use it.

　

8/2/12

Updated my Flickr.

　

8/1/12

Called in sick to work just because it was the first day of the month and I'd hardly ever get to take off work on the first because of monthly reports.

　

7/31/12

Another happily uneventful day but I did go to Roly Poly for lunch which was insufferably cute, also got new keycard finally.

　

7/30/12

Finished off the Subway Sandwich Shop gift card that Virginia got me for my birthday with a delicious premium sandwich.

　

7/29/12

The pitcher incident made me question my sanity and I texted Sheri "5 out of 5 sad pandas :(".

　

7/28/12

The experience of doing the Daredevil Dive at Six Flags blew my mind.

　

7/27/12

Once again, I didn't do a very good job at work but I decided to blame that on the fact that my keycard completely quit working not even a little bit, thereby lowering my work morale by making me feel undervalued.

　

7/26/12

I didn't do as good of a job at work as I had the past couple days, but it felt like I was sacrificing doing good at work for other types of personal mental health.

　

7/25/12

Dan the guy I live with told me that his father and father's girlfriend would be coming over and eating chicken wings so I went out aimlessly and just so happened to end up at a bar where a sex party was about to happen but I was in 0% mood for a sex party.

　

7/24/12

The acting director of the department thought I didn't look busy enough, so thankfully she found me some more work to do.

　

7/23/12

Since the fiscal year has been closed out at work, this was the day that the next deep round of layoffs dropped, and it felt like carnage.

　

7/22/12

I knew I'd have a 6-hour layover in Denver on Sunday (unlike the layover Wednesday which was only planned to be 2 hours) so I'd thought maybe I could find a theater to go watch Dark Knight Rises at and it turned out that the theater where the shooting happened is 17.2 miles away from Denver International Airport but it's closed for a couple weeks because the terrorists always win and I ended up just walking aimlessly around downtown Denver for several hours, except I did go through Aurora on the bus and I swear I did not realize the bus would go through Aurora until I was there.

　

7/21/12

Got up before sunrise and went on a walk with Glen and spent a lot more time with my parents, including sky-gazing and funny-picture-taking time.

　

7/20/12

First thing in the morning while I was looking at the internet, a message came up announcing that there'd been a mass-shooting at a movie theater and all day long it gave everyone some distraction to talk about besides the heat and drought.

　

7/19/12

The airplane crew told us that we touched down in Amarillo at 12:38a then Glen and I got to Guymon around 3:00.

　

7/18/12

Had an unexpected layover for about 12 hours in Denver so instead of standing in line for who-knows how long and arguing, I got on the public bus and spent the day at Boondocks Fun Center which turned out to be the most fun I've had in years and years.

　

7/17/12

Watched the Netflix DVD movie Life During Wartime and told Dan to turn his stuff down because he'd have several days without me.

　

7/16/12

Went to Marble with some people.

　

7/15/12

The singing at the Church Of Christ was amazing.

　

7/14/12

Had sex with a guy named Mike who I really liked, but it was difficult for me to relax and Mike wasn't listening to me.

　

7/13/12

Got all the files out of my office, hoping the fiscal year will be okay to close, felt vacant.

　

7/12/12

After another long, busy day at work, I went home and watched Million Dollar Baby which was touching.

　

7/11/12

When anyone ever said that Wednesday would be the final cut-off for the fiscal year I never really believed them, but I have been working really hard at work ever since that meeting on July 2.

　

7/10/12

I had to do that awful thing with my credit card at the bank and I fell into a time / space wormhole vortex.

　

7/9/12

Work, exercise class with Jill, watched Devils Rejects on DVD, and the guy I live with told me he was auditioning for American Idol the next day at The United Center.

　

7/8/12

A close friend revealed to me that he recently contracted HIV.

　

7/7/12

Walked around my block in my high heels, then Sheri and I went to Tweet where a lot of people felt the need to comment about my high heels.

　

7/6/12

The Oklahoma Burger at Native Foods Café is a million times better than any burger that you can actually get in Oklahoma.

　

7/5/12

Before watching Hostel 3 on DVD, I warned the guy I live with that I was going to watch a horror movie because I don't want to freak him out.

　

7/4/12

Monday I went to the doctor and had blood drawn; Tuesday they called and said I don't have HIV or syphilis (and I commented, "Oh well, better luck next time I guess"); then Wednesday I was getting fucked bareback by a stranger (he was so hot and it felt so good) and he said, "Do you want my load in your ass?" and even though I really really did want it, I made him pull out.

　

7/3/12

Had my first personal training session in 3 months (with the same trainer at the same place as 3 months ago) and several parts of me died.

　

7/2/12

There was a meeting at work about how we're expecting a deluge of files and to be working overtime etc. so that night when I was about to get a Hepatitus B vaccine and the nurse told me that my arm might be sore for one or two days, I decided not to get the vaccine which precipitated an argument with my primary care physician who revealed himself to be a huge douchebag.

　

7/1/12

Got home around 12:07a (and decided that was too late to go to Mans Country) and laid out on the rooftop deck in the back of my apartment feeling very happy and content, even though I was aware that my birthday (and by extension, my life) was not exactly how I'd wanted it to be, I knew it was a choice to be joyful.

　

6/30/12

Since it was my birthday I bought myself my first-ever pair of high-heeled shoes (and damn are they ever high heels!) and spent about 8 hours wearing them, and when people asked me why I was wearing high heels, I just said because it was my birthday and that makes complete sense.

　

6/29/12

At noon I ate at The Florentine in the building where I work with a couple of co-workers and met Craig the bartender, and at night I was at The Call telling people how important it was for them to know that I'm only 33 years old.

　

6/28/12

It was announced that Chief Justice Of The United States Supreme Court John Roberts's vote upheld the constitutionality of The Affordable Care Act which filled my soul with an indescribable feeling of hope.

　

6/27/12

Went home from work and watched The Runaways while Dan, surendipitously, was not at home.

　

6/26/12

Sometimes at lunch I like to go to the Ogilvie Station food court.

　

6/25/12

Did laundry for the first time all month (since moving so it was the first time for me at this laundromat), also fantasized about George a lot still after we became Facebook-friends.

　

6/24/12

After 4 Suyos, I met Jeff and Sheri at Mutiny for some lgbtq musical performances (love the band Bad Bad Meow) and Tiffany and George from supper showed up too, which got me all excited because I had such a good time talking with George all night but then as I was going home before 2:00a I got all depressed about it.

　

6/23/12

Supper with a bunch of people at the restaurant 4 Suyos for Corinna's birthday, with Tiffany and my birthdays being secondary.

　

6/22/12

I knew my morning commute on the red-line was as doomed as that bee everyone killed but still decided not to transfer to the brown-line for several reasons.

　

6/21/12

Back on track with another healthy and super-productive day.

　

6/20/12

FUNdamentals meeting.

　

6/19/12

Went to Township and got drunk.

　

6/18/12

Booked flights to and from Amarillo for next month.

　

6/17/12

Got home from the second (and last) day of my very first ever Shambhala class and took a nap, then called parents and texted Sheri then went back to Shambhala Center for my regular Sunday evening Queer Dharma.

　

6/16/12

After midnight went to Mans Country, then had my first day of my very first ever Shambhala class, went back to Mans Country again before midnight.

　

6/15/12

Feast Of Fun posted a free interview with Susan Powter (who was really famous in the 1990s) and she answered my question.

　

6/14/12

The bartender at Crew was a dumb bitch.

　

6/13/12

My damn rent check from a month ago finally got cashed and it cleared, signaling that I'm out of financial stress for a while.

　

6/12/12

I watched the first game of the major-league basketball championship (okay, just the last 15 minutes) with some hot lesbians from Norman who had trendy haircuts (after going to Shambhala Tuesday for the first time ever).

　

6/11/12

Bad case of Mondays.

　

6/10/12

Had a great time at Midsommarfest, spent most of the time there with the Shambhala Center booth talking to the general public about meditation.

　

6/9/12

Midsommarfest, mani-pedi at SIR, roller derby, watched several movies.

　

6/8/12

Next door neighbors gave me a tour of our roof.

　

6/7/12

After work I dropped off some equipment and went to Sheri & Jeff's place and we discussed the future and I felt happy to be alive.

　

6/6/12

Sent messages to several of my friends, the two words "something poignant," so that if I never talk to them again they'll say the last thing I ever said to them was something poignant.

　

6/5/12

I think about suicide so much it's probably inevitable that I'm eventually going to do it.

　

6/4/12

A woman at work named Margaret abruptly announced her retirement, quitting at the end of this week, which is suspicious and made me feel uneasy.

　

6/3/12

Took communion at The Church Of Christ.

　

6/2/12

Picked up my new mattress which I love.

　

6/1/12

The first night of sleep in the new apartment across the street from Mans Country I had a dream that I tried to go to Mans Country but it was closed down.

　

5/31/12

The move finished and the settling will start soon enough.

　

5/30/12

Another day mostly dedicated to the move, but the best part was that I made a casserole and went to Virginia's place which was the first time we'd seen each other since her miscarriage.

　

5/29/12

The trains quit running during rush hour and no one at the C.T.A. was giving any information or helping to direct people in any way.

　

5/28/12

Another emotional day spent on the move and again I felt good about the amount I got accomplished but still don't realize how far along I am in the process.

　

5/27/12

My first video chat with my parents was nice.

　

5/26/12

Paradise with Mark.

　

5/25/12

Still trying to get things back to normal at work, and there was a costume party in the evening that I wanted to go to but didn't because I didn't have enough time to put together a costume.

　

5/24/12

I felt good about the amount I got accomplished with the move.

　

5/23/12

Back to work downtown, went home and right to bed instead of going to any sex parties or anything.

　

5/22/12

It was my second (and last) day working at the "satellite" location (in Cicero, as opposed to the "central" location where I usually work downtown) and it was such a great feeling to be walking down an unfamiliar street at noon and stumble on a gay bar (and grill) to have lunch at.

　

5/21/12

First thing when I got up in the morning I read an e-mail from Virginia, "Losing the baby :(", and then at 8:30a she pre-term delivered Marvin the 3rd.

　

5/20/12

I felt very unhappy to the point of suicidal, barely ever getting out of bed, and in the afternoon my lip had swollen up so much that the piercing fell out and I decided not to put it back in that maybe it was what was impacting my mood (and not because of seeing that guy I dated for 3 months online cruising for dick) like because of messing up my energy meridians or something.

　

5/19/12

Walked all the way from roller derby to Spin feeling very unhappy about life, then after midnight the drag queen Milan paid tribute to Donna Summer which was amazing.

　

5/18/12

At 10:00p I got my lower lip pierced on the right side which was the first piercing I ever got.

　

5/17/12

I went to the Wellington Avenue Church and spent several hours with the first busload of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who came to town for the NATO conference.

　

5/16/12

Touche the gay bar gives $1 off drinks on Wednesdays if you take your shirt off which is semi-fun for my exhibitionist ways.

　

5/15/12

The only thing I had to eat all day was cocoa cocaine (made mostly with shortening instead of butter and chocolate milk mix instead of actual cocoa).

　

5/14/12

I couldn't stop thinking about Phi Phi O'Hara and Madame LaQueer.

　

5/13/12

After the 1:00a performances of Phi Phi O'Hara and Madame LaQueer at Spin Nightclub, Phi Phi had a dance-off to her new never-before-heard song and pulled me out of the audience to dance onstage and banter which was pretty much the most exciting thing that's ever happened in the history of anything.

　

5/12/12

In the afternoon I decided to go to BoysTown and ended up spending like 12 hours there.

　

5/11/12

Cason and I went to the Navy Pier Imax to watch the new Tim Burton movie Dark Shadows, probably the last time I get to hang out with him before he moves to Boston (sad face).

One-sentence highlights from Brent's life 2/11 - 5/10/12

5/10/2012

More servings of meh.

　

5/9/2012

In the morning I was preoccupied with the lead singer from Against Me! announcing that she'll be transitioning genders, and in the afternoon I was preoccupied with the POTUS announcing his support of marriage equality for same-sex couples.

　

5/8/2012

Signed lease, ate a lot, Sex-Positive Film Series, ran into a guy I know named Kevin on the subway home.

　

5/7/2012

Kind of a wasted day, but I realized I may (or may not) be coming into financial difficulties with having the two apartments this month.

　

5/6/2012

Andrew the guy I worked with stopped into my place at 4:00a and when he left I slept a lot of the day, going outside again in the evening for Queer Dharma and the Full Moon Jam.

　

5/5/2012

The commuter train left Millennium Park on time at 9:20p and arrived on time at 10:14 in Homewood, and I met lots of Andrew the guy I worked with's familia.

　

5/4/2012

The 13th day of my second attempt doing the 30-day bikram challenge and I felt superstitious about the number 13.

　

5/3/2012

I knew it was possible that there would be a bus coming which was not being tracked on C.T.A. Bus Tracker so I took a leap of faith and went to the bus stop and when that untracked bus I'd hoped for came, it was like a small token of God's esteem for what I'm doing in my life.

　

5/2/2012

The problem with doing the late bikram class for the 30-day bikram challenge is that 5:45 to 7:45 are the hours I'm most likely to goof off and get nothing done.

　

5/1/2012

I went from my one apartment to my other apartment then as I was waiting for the bus, a guy I know named Andy stopped to talk to me and mentioned the guy I dated from December 15 until March 15 saying that what's-his-name "hasn't been around much lately," and I said, "Of course he hasn't been around much lately. That's because I killed him and cut him up into little pieces."

　

4/30/2012

The finale of Rupauls Drag Race was making me feel stressed.

　

4/29/2012

Talked to my mother and she named a bunch of ways in which my father is in really bad health, including news that he had a blood transfusion the previous week which seems kind of serious.

　

4/28/2012

I met Sheri at New Wave then went to the Chicago Outfit Roller Derby home opener and bought a season pass.

　

4/27/2012

Laura and I (and Vincent and Tom, all from The Shambhala Center) went to see Hunger Games at the movie theater formerly named Village North then ate at Leonas which was a great way to end the week.

　

4/26/2012

Virginia and I went to The Chicago Diner for Dining Out For Life which was great because she was acting in a way or mood which seemed to me to be very classically herself and "Virginia-like."

　

4/25/2012

Group-sex parties just don't give me the same thrill that they used to.

　

4/24/2012

Took some shirts to the cleaners, did some laundry, etc.

　

4/23/2012

I knew the winner of Rupauls Drag Race Season 4 was probably not going to be announced, so I stayed home and got to bed as early as possible.

　

4/22/2012

Rearranged the basement at the Shambhala Center so we could have regularly-scheduled Queer Dharma during Rigden Weekend.

　

4/21/2012

Worked in a booth at the Parent Resource Fair and went to Paradise on the way home.

　

4/20/2012

Nothing happened - seriously, I didn't even finish the weekly report.

　

4/19/2012

Took half the day off work to have sex with a prostitute, the first sex I'd had since what's-his-name.

　

4/18/2012

Went to La Cocina with Elizabeth C.

　

4/17/2012

The last night of VITA was not as busy as the next-to-last night, but there were still plenty of crazies.

　

4/16/2012

It feels good to be doing the 30-day bikram challenge in the morning and VITA in the evening, the alleged stabbing notwithstanding.

　

4/15/2012

People at The Shambhala Center celebrated the 70th birthday of Alice Dan which was a great start for Queer Dharma with a lot of great energy.

　

4/14/2012

The craziest VITA yet, rowing, bikram, then I told several people I was leaving to go to the Matt Alber concert at Jackhammer but laid down and had an amazing night of sleep instead.

　

4/13/2012

I woke up in the morning pre-occupied with how much stuff there was to get done at work, then after work I went and did rowing then signed up for the 30-day bikram challenge.

　

4/12/2012

I was busy busy at work and operating on a energetic frequency that didn't go well with people and niceties, and then right before I was about to go to sleep I was listening to Liza's radio show and she played "Joey" by Concrete Blonde which made me want to smash stuff.

　

4/11/2012

Woke up with tight / sore / tender / knot spot in between my shoulder blades; Lisa Junkin was the guest on The Deviant Minds Salon but I had trouble with the audio.

　

4/10/2012

I'd been thinking how the only "meaning" in life is having experiences of life, so I try to go out and have experiences but my experiences of life are often sucky (this was when I left home, went to Schubas, went right back home, encountering Cubs people way more than necessary).

　

4/9/2012

I didn't go to work and the weather was so beautiful, I bought some marked-down Easter chocolate and watched the episode of Rupauls Drag Race which was leaked a day early.

　

4/8/2012

Missed a day of the rowing challenge because I didn't have my shit together so I forgot the gym closed early since it was Easter.

　

4/7/2012

Virginia and I ate at Kanela and celebrated the end of her first trimester, and The Cubs had a game which brought about the entire mass of humanity that Saturday afternoon Cubs games bring.

　

4/6/2012

After work I went to the gym in Lakeview to do my 5k of rowing for the Strong Divas Of Chicago team rowing challenge, then back downtown to meet Elizabeth S. (the first time we've met outside of work) for a 7:00 showing of Titanic in 3D.

　

4/5/2012

Had a great time with Sheri, Ali, Jeff, Jonny, and Tommy at a quaint Italian restaurant.

　

4/4/2012

After work I went to do VITA but the doors were locked (yes I had read the e-mail saying Truman College was on spring break and were staying open specifically for VITA but that e-mail needed to do a better job of saying where the damn entrance was) and since there was no sign saying where the entrance was, I just went home because I was not in the mood to walk around the block and find the entrance.

　

4/3/2012

Went to Sheri's place after work and hung out with Tommy and everyone.

　

4/2/2012

Someone at work (an elderly man named Lester Stephens) disrespected me which gave me an opportunity to practice the anger management techniques discussed the night before at Queer Dharma.

　

4/1/2012

Shawn talked about the similarities between death of Jesus and the death of Trayvon Martin.

　

3/31/2012

More interesting VITA experiences, went to Digitour, then to Cason & Todd's.

　

3/30/2012

Everyone was talking about that damn lottery so much that I actually considered buying my first-ever lottery ticket, except I wasn't carrying any cash with me all day long.

　

3/29/2012

Did > 5k of rowing machine then saw Colin; I've been snappish with people's stupidity for the past few days so I just try to be calm and stay laid-back but then people ask me what's wrong, why am I being so quiet?

　

3/28/2012

Our morning exercise class was mostly jump rope intervals and then some other core-strengthening plank exercises, but we ended the class by doing kegels.

　

3/27/2012

It was like some kind of record day for me with maximum happiness, healthiness, and productivity.

　

3/26/2012

When the Twitter for Rupauls Drag Race tweeted #TheLibraryIsOpen, I tweeted #ReadMeDragRace and was the 3rd person to get read, and I laughed so hard at all the reads that it really cheered me up.

　

3/25/2012

Shawn, who preaches at the Lakeview Church Of Christ, has a great deal of respect from me -- when he was talking about the miracles of Jesus the first definition of "miracle" he read was from the Urban Dictionary in reference to Insane Clown Posse.

　

3/24/2012

My big accomplishment of the day was that I figured out my taxes, and I wish my daily accomplishments could be a lot lot bigger but hey at least it's something.

　

3/23/2012

I went to the post office and came across a big demonstration in the federal building plaza opposing the so-called "contraception mandate" which was a large spectacle designed to stir up strong feelings in the people witnessing it, and, oh, it did stir up strong feelings with me.

　

3/22/2012

A year and a half ago I liked Gretchen's collection better than Mondo's so I agreed with that Project Runway final decision, but I do like Mondo even though I still was not happy when his final collection was chosen over Austin's on the finale of Project Runway Allstars.

　

3/21/2012

At noon I went out to enjoy the beautiful weather and during my little walk there were a couple big WTFs (a free shuttle to Wal-Mart & presumably a tourist asking whether the city had paved over the Chicago River to build Wacker Drive).

　

3/20/2012

The Illinois primary election was happening but I didn't do any research so I just voted on the Republican ballot because there were no contested races except for President and I knew that I wanted to vote for Ron Paul.

　

3/19/2012

The world was stunned by the elimination of Willam Belli off the show Rupauls Drag Race.

　

3/18/2012

Met Virginia at Tweet and after breakfast went to the Church Of Christ for the first time since December 25, also officially joined The Shambhala Center after years of attending Queer Dharma.

　

3/17/2012

My strategy was to stay close to home and avoid Saint Patrick people.

　

3/16/2012

I told Joe that the way he'd been treating me was unacceptable.

　

3/15/2012

After 11, I caught a taxi from my place to Sheri's and spent the rest of the night there because I was having such a bad time and was worried I might do something I'd regret.

　

3/14/2012

Another day, at least the third day, of harsh acid in my digestive tract so still eating bland, healthy foods, no alcohol, no concentrated sugars.

　

3/13/2012

After being woken up again by those damn kids who do that firecracker shit, I ended up not going to work but the weather outside was beautiful and I went to Wicker Park, Bucktown, and the Sex-Positive Film Series.

　

3/12/2012

There was a productive office meeting for most of the morning.

　

3/11/2012

Sheri and I ate at Logan.

　

3/10/2012

Busy busy packed day with a lot of beautiful sight-seeing activites in Milwaukee before I caught the train home during the evening.

　

3/9/2012

Elizabeth who works in the cubicle next to me invited me out to a nice restaurant celebrating her birthday, then after work I caught the train to Milwaukee and was checked into my hotel and drunk before 10 (my special trip being an exception to the pregnancy-solidarity restrictions).

　

3/8/2012

I know I said I wasn't going to let Joe make me crazy, but the choice not to be crazy is a difficult practice.

　

3/7/2012

I wanted to go out of town to visit someplace else over the weekend (partially because of how Joe was contributing to my crazy the past several weekends), so I finalized my hotel and transportation for a 24-hour trip to Milwaukee.

　

3/6/2012

First session at Vie in the morning was nice, then after work I slept the entire train ride home waking up 4 stops after mine but feeling very good and rested so I decided to go in and do VITA and after doing 2 returns they put me on sorting which was the first time I ever did sorting (and it sucked).

　

3/5/2012

Joe sent me an e-mail saying that he'd been sick and tired and grumpy and I decided it was my last day being crazy, because I like Joe but I have enough to deal with before adding on whatever it is that Joe is dealing with.

　

3/4/2012

Got home from Give Peace A Dance around 3a and only left my apartment again for Queer Dharma.

　

3/3/2012

I was scheduled to go do VITA but I called in sick and rescheduled, then I set up a new Livejournal.

　

3/2/2012

Committed to 3 more months at Chicago Bikram, and went to work with a big rip in the seat of my pants.

　

3/1/2012

The numerology and cosmic gravitational forces were aligning to make the day challenging rather than cooperative for me, but Joe cooked us supper and it was delicious.

　

2/29/2012

Went to Laura's and we ate pizza from Luigis, went for a walk around the Lincoln Park pond (even though it was pretty much freezing and storming), and watched Harold & Maude.

　

2/28/2012

Signed up for 10 sessions during the month of March with my long time personal trainer Jill at her new exercise studio space, Vie.

　

2/27/2012

Had a great day at work - THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY - and other than that it was just average ordinary everyday craziness.

　

2/26/2012

After midnight I left my place and went to Big Gay Horror Fan's movie marathon that was going on from 8:00p until 8:00a.

　

2/25/2012

Wanted a burger with pizza and so I went to Chicagos Pizza on Montrose.

　

2/24/2012

Talked on the phone with Virginia about her pregnancy and told her I would follow through with my promise I'd always said that I would follow all the same dietary restrictions as she was throughout her pregnancy, except I just wanted to go out that night for one last night of drinking booze.

　

2/23/2012

Got excited when I found out that Diamanda Galas was performing in Chicago for the next 4 days, even though it was said to have been sold out.

　

2/22/2012

Went with co-workers to get ashes on forehead, but when I saw the line of people around the block waiting to get ashes on foreheads, I just kept walking.

　

2/21/2012

I felt a little apprehensive about starting the work week without Gloria, but it's not every morning when you get up and see that Sienna D'Enema posted another episode of Jiz and I laughed so hard at the new episode "Kimber Is A Dirty Lezzie."

　

2/20/2012

I realized I'm a planet that rotates, so as to only face the sun part of the time, and there's nothing I can do about those times when I'm facing away from the sun except just wait for my face to come back around to it.

　

2/19/2012

After watching Sharon Needles perform, Joe and I took a taxi from Boystown to his place and then we got together again at 10 that night for pizza, I also saw Jon during the morning and evening too.

　

2/18/2012

I dressed up and went to see Sharon Needles.

　

2/17/2012

The next week being Gloria's birthday week, she's taking the week of vacation off work and I've really been put in charge of things.

　

2/16/2012

After work I went to Sheri's and waxed my back a little and hung out, got home after 10:30 and called Joe whom I'd promised to call around 10, then went over and spent the night with him even though I already felt tired.

　

2/15/2012

Some days there are so many awesome fun exciting wonderful inspirational things going on but I get completely broke down and am unable to engage with the world in any way.

　

2/14/2012

It was the best Valentines Day ever, but that's not saying much.

　

2/13/2012

At work there's been one particular problem file that's been a tumor and I felt so happy and relieved to close it; I told co-workers that it'd probably be the highlight of my entire day (and it was).

　

2/12/2012

Early in the morning, Joe made awkward sexual advances and we persisted long enough in being awkward that eventually we had the best sex of my life - a cosmic explosion of energy and enlightenment and universal consciousness and it felt like I was high on some really great drug - then I went to Second Unitarian Church where the sermon was about sex.

　

2/11/2012
The way I felt about Joe had shifted, so I was acting reserved when we met at Garcias for a late supper, but when I took the rest of his food that he wasn't eating and scraped it onto my plate, he said, "That's my Brent."

One-sentence highlights from Brent's life 12/3/11 - 2/10/12

2/10/2012

After work I caught the Clark Street bus to Best Buy where I bought more memory devices (because the one I usually use is constantly having corrupted files) then to the Lincoln Park bikram studio for the last session of my month-long special which was great.


2/9/2012

I had an expired card good for a free day at the sauna, so I changed the expiration date and it was all good.


2/8/2012

VITA went well except the waiting line of clients coming in was 4+ hours long and I had to wait frustrating amounts of time for reviewers, also I wanted to yell at the tax preparers next to me, "Quit staring at it and enter it into the damn computer already!"


2/7/2012

Gloria called an unnecessary meeting with Elizabeth S. because apparently she doesn't realize that it's awkward, or she's trying to pretend like Elizabeth's job is not in the process of being eliminated even though it couldn't be more obvious.


2/6/2012

I was distraught when I lost my hat that Joe knitted for me, but then I found it thanks to Marge.


2/5/2012

Spent all afternoon with Sheri celebrating her birthday.


2/4/2012

I called my brother to thank him for the gifts he'd sent me and also to tell him to go see Sharon Needles who was performing that night in Oklahoma City's best gay nightclub.


2/3/2012

I stopped by Spin to pick up tickets to see Sharon Needles on my way to my appointment at Chicago Male salon where I told my stylist to make me look like Sharon Needles.


2/2/2012

Sharon Needles Facebook-liked a Facebook-comment that I made on her Facebook-status!


2/1/2012

I came home from work at 1:00p and found that Mr. Fitzsimmons's apartment was being cleared out (presumably by his daughters) then I got a knock on my door and it was a building inspector (and I was so messy and unprepared for any visitor) but we talked about stuff and she noticed the outlet I'd taped up (last July because of bed bugs coming through it) and she, very dramatically, said that me taping up that outlet "might've saved [my] life".


1/31/2012

The escalator I usually take in the morning at the Monroe subway stop was being worked on so I ran up the stairs opposite from it and those arty light garden installations (that usually play tubular bells / classical organ type music) were playing a Michael Jackson song which really put me in a good mood and was a great way to start my day.


1/30/2012

I chose The Call to watch the premiere of Rupauls Drag Race season 4 because I needed to go to the supermarket which is next-door.


1/29/2012

Spent the day (and the whole weekend) being cold, then in the evening after getting home from Queer Dharma my parents called and told me how their weather was in the 70s and they're eating homemade ice cream.


1/28/2012

Went to the supermarket and bought some cookies but other than that I spent the day being a lazy fat slob.


1/27/2012

Work is all right, but it's been better so when the acting CEO called a meeting there was a lot of wild speculation what it might be about.


1/26/2012

I cooked my special vegan casserole and Joe mixed his special red wine & Diet 7UP cocktails.


1/25/2012

Had a lot of fun doing VITA.


1/24/2012

I just could not bring myself to watch The State Of The Union Adress, even after it was posted on Youtube.


1/23/2012

I was fascinated with heroin.


1/22/2012

The Queer Dharma group did contemplative meditation for Mr. Fitzsimmons.


1/21/2012

I went over to Joe's place to drop off a gift I got for him, and the plan was to go out after that but I'd kind of forgotten how I feel when I'm with him, how every cell of my body wants him so bad.


1/20/2012

The police, firemen, E.M.T.s, and other emergency personnel were around for hours, and at 1:00a they left and guys came to board up the windows and door, as well as people from the Red Cross who offered to talk to anyone who might be suffering trauma (which I appreciated but I went to Crew for a little karaoke before they closed, then to one of the 24-hour Mexican food restaurants).


1/19/2012

Got home after work before 6:00p as usual, left home at 7:50 to get to the 8:15 bikram class in Lincoln Park, got back home at 10:30 and there'd been a huge fire in the apartment directly next to mine (the one I share a bedroom wall with) that left it completely destroyed and Mr. Fitzsimmons, my elderly neighbor who I'd heard coughing every single night, died in it.


1/18/2012

Joe and I had our first fight, sort of.


1/17/2012

After midnight I laid in bed not sleeping, but was nonetheless able to get up at 4:00a and go do bikram in the South Loop.


1/16/2012

Watched the fourth hour of a compelling documentary about Harry S. Truman, and slept most of the day.


1/15/2012

Left Joe's place in the morning after having sex then helping him bandage his toes, then went to Sheri's where she gave me a present and we went to Marble, then went to do bikram, then watched the last episode of Dexter season 2, then went to Queer Dharma where Alice asked me to umdze and we discussed The Wisdom Of No Escape by Pema Chodron.


1/14/2012

It was the first time I ever went to the Chicago Bikram Studio in the South Loop and people said that members of The Chicago Bears football team go there sometimes.


1/13/2012

I was in no mood to deal with anything all day long, but Joe had ingrown toenails cut out so he was hobbling around and I went over to his place to help take care of him a little bit.


1/12/2012

It wasn't the first snow of winter, but it was the biggest and most substantial snow.


1/11/2012

The first night of VITA training with CEP at Truman College went well.


1/10/2012

At work, the current acting director called a meeting that was both de-motivational and unnecessary.


1/9/2012

I went to the gym at noon and pondered our inevitable military invasion of Iran, you know, because that's all our country knows how to do.


1/8/2012

Spent hours cleaning, then Joe came over and saw my apartment for the first time and I cooked us waffles.


1/7/2012

Met Virginia at Tiztal for breakfast, then pretty much slept the rest of the day.


1/6/2012

Laura and I went to the zoo and the conservatory, then Joe and I went back to Garcias.


1/5/2012

At noon I went and picked up my goddamn computer after a week, and felt relieved that it was the last night planned for working until 7:00.


1/4/2012

I went to the library and considered checking out Anna Karenina (Joe's recommendation) but it looked like a triceratops sitting there on the shelf with 800 pages, so I checked out Secret Historian (the biography of Samuel Steward written by Justin Spring) instead.


1/3/2012

Joe sent me an e-mail that got me all tingly and excited so when I got off work I went over to his place for a little while.


1/2/2012

Colin cooked a wonderful supper and invited me over with delightful company.


1/1/2012

The regular Sunday night Queer Dharma sitting at The Shambhala Center had been canceled, but I didn't accept that so I made it happen.


12/31/2011

Spent New Years Eve with Joe at his place.


12/30/2011

I called the cops on my neighbors after being awoken at 4:12a by a domestic dispute and witnessing a naked man drag a woman who was yelling "Help me! Help me!" into an apartment.


12/29/2011

At 5:00p I rushed home from work as soon as possible to pick up The Story Of The Little Mole Who Went In Search Of Whodunnit that I'd ordered from Amazon.com, then took my computer for virus removal, and bought pink champagne for New Years at the "spirits" shop across the street.


12/28/2011

I felt anxiety about my relationship with Joe (and the fact that I only had 2 orgasms in 13 days), but I dealt with it in healthy ways.


12/27/2011

I took my laptop (that I got second-hand in 2005 and used until it died in April 2010) to a data recovery company in hopes that my jpegs and mp3s might possibly be recovered from it but they called back just 5 hours later with the results of their free 24-hour diagnostic saying there were a lot of problems so it probably couldn't be recovered and if it could the estimated fee was < $1,300, so it was sad but I said final goodbyes to the idea of seeing those files (mostly all my photos between November 2005 & April 2010) ever again.


12/26/2011

Read The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen for hours until it was finished off.


12/25/2011

Went to Sheri's place to watch opening day NBA games and hoped she would come home but she didn't.


12/24/2011

Joe and I went to Simons Bar and drank some Glogg.


12/23/2011

I had a lot of actual work work to do at work so I was busy busy and co-workers of mine in the office actually asked me whether I was "really" working.


12/22/2011

Joe and I went to see the Gayco Christmas show at Annoyance then we went back to his place and spent the night together.


12/21/2011

My home phone and home computer are both unplugged so I dutifully called my brother on my cell phone (out in the parking lot behind the building where I live since I don't get good cell reception in my apartment).


12/20/2011

Charity Taitt and Erick Deshaun Dorris were the performers at a heavily-attended Homolatte and they were both great, but the one most zany, memorable moment was when the giant parrot puppet came out and surprised everyone.


12/19/2011

Not as bright and cheery as I usually am on Mondays.


12/18/2011

Second Unitarian Church had its "music" Sunday and cookie sale which I attended and recognized a bunch of things about Second Unitarian that I don't like.


12/17/2011

Commemorated Bradley Manning's 24th birthday and the anniversary of Mohamed Bouazizi's death by eating sloppy joes and tater tots with Sheri & Jeff.


12/16/2011

Had a date with a guy named Joe, who, wow, I really like, really really like him.


12/15/2011

Had a date with a guy named Mike at Daily Grill which was really nice.


12/14/2011

Virginia had wanted to show me her favorite restaurant, but sadly it was closed by the health department, so we walked down the street and ate at Kopi instead.


12/13/2011

Since I was working late, I unfortunately decided not to attend the Sex-Positive Film Series that night.


12/12/2011

Was fascinated with body suspension.


12/11/2011

Went to the Church Of Christ and then to the church potluck afterward.


12/10/2011

Tori Amos performed.


12/9/2011

Had fun hanging out at Sidekicks with Jeff & friends.


12/8/2011

Decided that now is the time to purchase that waterbed I've always wanted.


12/7/2011

When Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 168 months in prison, Margaret in the next cubicle asked me how many years that was (because everyone asks me their math questions) and since it was around lunchtime I went out and walked around the federal building to see the media spectacle.


12/6/2011

Worked late, the first of 2 weeks of working late.


12/5/2011

There was a shoot-out / stand-off at Broadway & Wilson which shut down red-line trains for SIX HOURS!


12/4/2011

Met a guy at Berlin who took me back to his place, then I left his place and went to church where Rudra's sermon was about World AIDS Day which was especially poignant because Rudra's story is similar to my brother (who would've turned 50 that day) except for the dying part.


12/3/2011

Saw Christeene perform / third consecutive night of all-night partying.