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.
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
@ Home
Alright so I already wrote this entry one time but my computer at work froze up before I was able to save it so now I'm starting again from home.
Today was a much better day for me then yesterday started off to be. I know that I bitched a whole lot in my journal entry and as Steven would say was being a total drama queen, but I wasn't in a good mood yesterday morning and I just wrote the way that I was feeling. Perhaps I was being a bit harsh on my friends, but it makes me feel better to just write and vent. I was able to get into a better mood yesterday after some E-Mails from Steve and Philip cheered me up. I know why I really love those guys so much.
So anyway -- It turned out that Sean and Suzette called me later yesterday and I ended up meeting them around 7 pm at Macy's in Union Square. We just hung out for about 2 hours, chatted and got caught up with each other. It was nice to spend time with them. They are going to take me out to lunch for my birthday tomorrow as well, so I suppose I can no longer be angry with them.
I ended up having sort of a date last night as well. I called Mark in the afternoon just to say hello. He called me back last night to tell me he had off and wanted to know if I would be interested in doing something with him. So around 9 pm I met up with him near his place on the other side of Duboce park. We were going to go and have coffee but the coffee shop he had in mind was already closed for some reason. We decided to walk down to Chow's to have some dinner. We sat at the counter, had some food and just chatted about things. After dinner we walked back up towards my place. I asked him if he wanted to come in. He said sure for a little bit, so we went up stairs.
We got in the house and Mark was able to see my messy room which was totally not prepared for company. We just laid on the bed and started talking. After a while we started touching each others hands a bit and then ended up laying there cuddling on the bed and talking. It was really very nice and innocent. Even Mark said that he thought it was really cool that we could just lay there together and chill out. We were joking about the fact that we are both 1/2 Czech and that our families were both from outside of Prague. He said we were probably cousins or something and we got into a brief discussion about how it could actually be convenient for 2 gay men to be together and somehow be distant relatives. You wouldn't have to face any of those embarrassing questions like at the hospital or other places where people find it important that you are family. We got a good laugh out of the whole conversation. Mark also speaks German so we were testing out each others fluency. I'm really impressed at how well he can speak. We eventually just started touching each other and kissing a bit, but nothing ventured below the belt. It was totally innocent for us both. I really felt very comfortable with him and he's just so damn cute. We laid there until Mark said that it was probably time for him to go home since we both had to work in the morning. Since I met him near his place we walked back to my car and then I dropped him off. We parted with a good night kiss and then I headed home to bed.
Today was good as I got to see Mark again this afternoon. He told me yesterday to stop by and visit him since he was going to be working down here today. I went over around 1 and met up with him and we had lunch together. After lunch he walked me out to my car. I don't know why I feel so innocent with him. As I turned to go and get into my car he said to me "well aren't you going to give me a kiss?" I smirked and said "this is suburbia and they don't like that sort of thing going on around these parts" We kissed, he told me that he would give me a call later tonight, and I then headed back to work. So far I really like him. Underneath his initial sarcasm I can tell he's a sweet guy.
So I decided to take off work tomorrow. I don't really fell like participating in all of the Halloween dress up festivities at work.. With it being my birthday I just really want to hand out. Sean and Suzette are going to take me to lunch and then I guess I'm going out to dinner with Steven and Philip tomorrow night to a pretty nice place. I'm looking forward to both. I also didn't really want to fight the traffic back into the city tomorrow evening with everyone coming to the Castro for the party. I remember the traffic last year and that's why I ended up staying at home and not going back up to the city.
Well since I just got home, I'm going to go and make myself some dinner and relax a bit. I'd like to head to bed early tonight and get some rest. Hopefully that will happen.
