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Rich Brown - Living My Life Out Loud!
Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
@HOME. God what a long day. I just got home about a 1/2 hour ago from work. I just sat down to check my mail and my finances and thought I would write a quick entry.
Things at work have been going really well. I'm so busy and I'm working crazy hours, but I'm learning and I have a great deal of tasks and responsibility. This is the only way I can enjoy my job if I'm learning. So for now I'm happy. At least being very busy at work makes my day go by faster. Anyway -- enough about work.
I have a bunch of things that I could write about in my personal life but for starters I don't really feel like sitting here for very long to detail and explain everything. So just for reference for later I will make some quick notes as to what has been going on in my life ...
- I helped Justin move into his new room this past weekend. It's unbelievable that he managed to get such a large room for only $400 a month. I wish I could pay that little .. I'd have a bunch of money left over.
- Justin is still a big part of my life. I still enjoy spending time with him, teasing him, and having someone to be grouchy with from time to time. I've been trying to be very upfront and honest with him that all I really want right now is to be friends and nothing more. I'm in "me" mode and I just want some time to myself for a while. He says he understands but I still think he wants more from me.
- Justin and I decided that 18th and Castro is "our" corner. Sometimes after going out we stand on the corner and just watch people. You never realized how fun it can be to people watch until you try it. All I have to say is there are some interesting people in San Francisco.
- I joined the 24-hour fitness on Market and Church. I've been "wanting" to get there about 5 times a week, but with my hectic work schedule lately, it's only been amounting to about 2 times a week. Hopefully I can try and get there more. My schedule should flatten out in the next 2 weeks or so.
- I joined an online Social Group with the purpose of meeting new people in the city. I've been involved in the group for about 2 months now and it's a great group of guys. A bunch of us have been meeting up on Sundays for coffee and doing other things together. It's nice to have a group of fun people where you can laugh and be yourself.
- As a result of the Social Group, I've met a bunch of new friends here in the city whom I really enjoy spending time with. Steven, Bee, Merced, Andy, Robert, David, Jesse and a few others. Bee and Steven are becoming two of my closer friends. We have been spending more and more time together doing things.
- My new friends have been showing me some of the "nicer" gay hangouts in SF. You know the type of places that have those dark huddled masses in the back of the bar. The type of place where your just not so sure about drinking from the glassware, so you get a bottled beer. Those places. Anyway .. boy do I have some stories. The things I've seen .. I would never ... Anyway -- it's all good right?
- Lets see ... um ...I'm going to Metropolis on Saturday night! I enjoyed it last time. Hopefully it should be even more fun this time. I think I'd like to buy a vowel! *GRIN*
-Well about the Phoenix - San Francisco debate that's been going on in my head since I moved here in October. Well I'm happy to announce that for now San Francisco has won. And amazingly I've been much happier just coming to a clear decision and not agonizing over it every minute of the day. I decided that I just have to give SF a chance. I know it's more expensive here, but I enjoy going to the beach to watch the sunset, I enjoy having the freedom of walking down the Castro and not worrying about being gay and what people will think of me. I enjoy being in an area where being gay does not make you different, but just merely another one in the crowd. So I've decided to make some cuts to my spending and stick around for a while.
- I talk to Mom every day and I think she is having a really hard time living alone. I know that she misses Dad a great deal. She thinks that if she gets a dog things will be better and she will not feel as alone. I told her that somehow I didn't think Dad would be as easily replaced with a dog. I guess she has to do whatever will help her get through this. I know I miss him terribly, but I can't imagine what she must be going through at this time in her life. She's strong. She may not think it, but she will get through it.
Well that's about it for now. I can't really think of much else that's going on in my life. Every day is a new adventure anymore. I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow. Another exciting day in the life of Rich. Ok -- maybe I'll write more tomorrow. Maybe not. Depends on my mood.
