the garden party

tony and i went to the community center's garden party last night and we had a great time. aside from the standard suburban banquet venue and the lukewarm catering, it was nice to be in a room with so many of northeast ohio's gay men and women. i knew a bunch of people there, and many of them independently of my partner. that was a good feeling. i feel like after a year in this part of the world, i have made a home here.

i was pleased to run into patrick and shamus. we had a little mini-blogger -convention. it was cool to finally meet the people in person that you know just a bit from these pages. hopefully it won't be the last time, either. it seems we are all facing the fear of having to give our lives over to blogging. patrick and i agreed that we are spending alot of time on this whole business, especially with the addition of the tribe. only shamus seems immune...he remains safe because he is only able to blog at work! mebbe if i went back to a dialup connection i would find it too frustrating and give it up. (yeah, right! like that would ever happen...)

work this week has been good. i am getting my sealegs in the office and it feels great. i hope i have as much to offer the company as they can offer me. i also did another bout of canning, making some bread and butter pickles. as my friends and family eat up what i have already given them, the empty jars are starting to trickle back in. with these returns comes the compulsion to fill them again. i need to keep all the jars full all the time, they seem to be saying to me, taunting me with their emptiness from behind the cupboard door. ...shiver...

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