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.
Monday, November 26, 2012
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