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gay men, missed connections, and other mayhem

Talk about missed connections; I’ve had two in the past month. That’s not a particularly good track record. Not to mention that I think I may have isolated some friends with my recent erratic and overly un-reined-in behavior. No wonder, with the amount I’ve been going out and drinking lately, my feelings would be hurt by me too. Granted, my friends have been just as crazy as I have been with the partying, but when we are sober, we all sorta pretend that things aren’t weird. Pretty bad, I know. We talk to each other as if nothing happened when we were tipsy/buzzed/drunk, and as if there are no tensions to speak of.

The really bad part is that the gang’s not really stopping … it’s only Monday, but enough people have sent around emails already that we have a party/club lined up every night beginning Tuesday night. I didn’t even party this hard in college. Maybe we are consciously seeking for the alcohol-induced loss of inhibitions so that we can be a bit more honest with each other.

Unrelated, but worth noting: I had two different people ask me today if a friend of mine is gay. He’s not, but how do you tell if a guy is gay anyways? I was at a gay friend’s birthday party Sunday night. It was attended by mostly men, who were all so unfairly attractive that I was even convinced that god did indeed spend a little more time on them. Given the crowd, I was extremely confused as to who was fair game, and who wasn’t. Frustrating at best.

When it comes down to it, these situations are lose-lose to me anyways, no matter how I look at it. The gay guys make a losing situation; they are definitely not fair game. The not gay ones … well, I usually find out they’re not gay by seeing them being totally into another girl, by which point, the situation is also totally completely lost. *sigh*

5 Comments »

  Liang wrote @ August 29th, 2006 at 6:31 pm

Yes, I sympathize with your lose-lose situation. A similar problem for yours truly: meeting someone during the summer who you like, and who clearly likes you, but now is literally halfway around the world. Grr.

Good luck with Orientation and all that this week! You’ll make it. I know.

  Shan wrote @ August 29th, 2006 at 7:33 pm

oooo liang, juicy! hot summer romance, eh? :) i agree though, that really is a shame.

  paula wrote @ September 4th, 2006 at 7:55 pm

oh man, when you meet 150 new people in 3 weeks there’s so much alcohol involved… i’ve been dehydrated since mid-august… when you and see eachother, we’ll take it easy… maybe.

  Keltheyounger wrote @ September 11th, 2006 at 1:53 am

You should just ask all the guys in the room for their business cards! Maybe they’ll have listed sexual orientation on there…???

You think it’s bad for you - just think of how hard it is for gay people. In the larger picture of the world, they are the ones usually surrounded by people not of their orientation. At least you’re surrounded by heterosexuals about 90% of the time in other settings. :-)

  Conjured Activism wrote @ January 20th, 2007 at 2:08 am

[…] It’s been quite a while since the Gang got together.  In fact, I haven’t seen some of these people since August/September last year, or at least not altogether.  Things have mainly been individual lunches here or dinner there or coffee when we find the time.  Tonight, in honor of an illustrious birthday, we gathered (all of us, almost) for a late dinner at Anthem.  It’s always nice to try out a new eatery, especially one that I hadn’t even heard of before. […]

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