Thursday, November 27, 2008

You drive me crazy

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,

After the perennial all-you-can-eat fest that my family and countless others engaged in earlier today, I'm still feeling stuffed and it's midnight. By the way, did you know 25% of food is wasted every year at Thanksgiving? and like most facts, I made that one up - but I think I heard somewhere that the number is something like that. Anyways, it's been awhile since I've posted so I thought I'd give a quick update with time for a story maybe (I can't help myself can I?).

I've been kicked out of my house as a result of some personality clashes and ageism from my annoyingly elitist roommates who ended up sucking pretty hard in the end. They just came out at me at a house meeting with no pretext or any real reason but just a general dislike of me. I've never really had anything like this happen to me so it was pretty shocking and made me pretty angry. It basically all started with this art girl roommate of mine and some paintings falling (no this was actually not my fault at all this time she just chose me as a scape goat) and the rest of the story is not even worth recounting. The ironic part though is that she is now leaving (either on her own accord or not I'm not sure sure) and since there is no lease, my one friend in the house is leaving too since he is so upset about all of this bullshit.

After living with my brother for the past month and looking for a place to live, I am moving into a housing co-op December 15th. Unfortunately it's just a sublet but it should be an interesting experience; especially learning to be a vegan for the house meals. More to come on this...

I also got a promotion to senior executive sales strategist and a $20,000 raise. Ok, that parts not true, the raise was $2,000. Okay, fine, you got me, none of it is true -but just wanted to keep you on your feet. I did however find a girl that I am now seeing who's really cool and who I am having a great time with but unfortunately lives in Brooklyn. So I'm doing that whole thing now going from Boston to NYC every few weekends (or her coming here). Actually on my last trip to the city I was at this bar and this guy started staring me down. He eventually came over and flicked me on my forehead. I was so surprised that I didn't even know what to say. After he stared me down again a little later I went over to him and asked if I knew him or if there was something he wanted? He said no and offered no further explanation. Eventually he told me to come over where he was standing with this girl and he asked me if I could help him. I nervously asked in what way and told me to just relax and since this wasn't making any sense to me and I was starting to really not like where this was going, I just came out with it and asked if he was gay and told him I was not. He then replied that it was impossible that I wasn't gay and proceeded to move in on me as the girl next to him stepped in front of him and told me to fuck off and that he was her boy. Bewildered, I jumped away and started by for my girlfriend, who, this whole time, I don't know how he didn't see her as we were on the dance floor together.

I have no idea why things like this happen to me but this wasn't the first time. I apparently attract gay men (this was the second black dude too). The first one, I will never forget, told me as I just finished doing Karaoke at this bar in Minneapolis (don't ask me what song until I've had a few drinks - oh wait, better yet, don't do that cause then I might do Karaoke again), anyways, he said: "little Jewish Boy, you drive me caaaarazy." Surprise surprise I ended up running from this guy too. oh good times