Today is gonna be the day....

I have had this site for awhile, but have never added anything to it beyond a short description of me and my picture. I thought I should start sharing some things about me and my life thus far. I grew up in the small town of Mount Vernon, in Southeastern KY, but left right after turning 18. Went to college at the University of Kentucky until I realized that even Lexington was a small town and transferred to the University of Louisville after my second year. I moved to Florida after college (first to Beverly Hills and then to Ocala) and after a few years there, I ended up in Phoenix in 1997 after a short stint in Denver. I moved back east to Chicago (the Schaumburg neighborhood) for about 5 months in 2001, but came back to the warm weather of Phoenix during my first winter there. I thought it would be nice to be within an easy day's drive to visit my family, but I had already become a desert rat. I have been in Phoenix ever since and I have to say that I highly prefer scraping the sunshine off of my car than snow and ice. My next move will either be to California or to NYC in the next few years unless I meet Pascal while I am backpacking around Europe this fall and I find my 'joie de vivre' in Paris. My dreams of meeting someone nice named Pascal are related to a story I will tell all of you some day--I promise.

Back on Earth, things have become stale in Phoenix, even though I cannot find any specific complaints, and I feel I am so ready to pick up and move. LA is nice (weather included) but so expensive and I know it gets cold in NYC, but still no snow to scrape off a car--who needs a car with 24 hour Metro and with the money I would save on a car payment and insurance, I could easily afford the higher rent of Manhattan (and NYC has MoMA).

Oh, and who am I kidding--Pascal, Paris?? Any good looking French guy will do and his name doesn't have to be Pascal. ;-) I have decided it just sucks being suddenly single again as more of my friends seem to be settling down these years. Although I enjoy spending time with them, being a 3rd or 5th wheel is not the most fun way to spend the evening. So, I am greatly torn--I have a great job with potential to move anywhere I want, but I also make enough money to travel anywhere I want to go so I am not locked up in Phoenix. But when I think of what I am leaving and compare it to what I could be gaining, I still get scared. So maybe that is my answer: the time is not right because things have not gotten that bad. At the same time, I don't want to wait until things get 'that bad.' I am beginning to ramble, so enough said.

On a lighter note, I made it to San Francisco for gay pride for the first time last month and I strongly encourage everyone to attend at least once. Here is a picture I took of some 'curiously strong boys.'




I will tell you more about my past, my present and my future in upcoming posts, so check back frequently.