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Confessions of a Slacker
2017-04-04 00:00:00 (UTC)

Another crush sighting.

Carl stopped in at McDonald’s this afternoon while I was there. He ordered some sort of breakfast sandwich plus a mocha something-or-other, sat down at the table right behind mine, wolfed down his food in about thirty seconds (I’m still wondering how he does that!) and was out the door and on his skateboard. He never made eye contact with me and so we didn’t speak.

He’s proving to be a real challenge. But there’s no way I’m giving up on him.

But I have to wonder, though. Am I really only attracted to him just because he reminds me of some gay guy I was hot for 20 to 30 years ago, who worked for the same company I did, and whom I sighted in both Cleveland and Chicago, and who lived within blocks of me in both places? Someone hot and muscular who never so much as glanced my way and who apparently never even realized I existed?

Is that all there is to this crush? I have to wonder.

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I heard from one of the librarians here that Patrick is no longer working there because he found a better position as an associate professor for a local state university. I haven’t seen him in three months.

I found out, however, that his girlfriend will be facilitating two poetry workshops here at the library later this month. I’m thinking about attending. I wonder if he’ll be there as well?

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In other news, I had neglected to mention that my young friend in the Chicago suburbs, who had experienced kidney failure and was on dialysis for several years, finally received her long-awaited kidney transplant about a month or so ago. So far she’s doing well, and I’m so happy for her. The kid’s been through so much shit the past four years that she never deserved.




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