lance_sibley | I'm bad, I know...

I owe people a whole whack of responses to comments. I said the other day that I would respond, but I still haven't. Spank me, I'll get to it. :P

So, I went out tonight. Sue me (or spank me), TrekBBS is down until noon tomorrow, and I had nothing better to do. Plus, it's a long weekend, so I expected that Woody's would be hopping - and it was, with the "best ass" contest tonight. Woo. Also hoo.

Update on "Project Jarrod":

Guy #1: at the bar with two girls. I said hello while I was waiting for the bartender to serve me, and we exchanged a few words, but within 30 seconds he had turned away to pay attention to the girls instead. Whatever.

Guy #2: Vadim, who was a recent (three years ago) immigrant from St. Petersburg, Russia. We had a good conversation that lasted through most of the above-mentioned beer, but when I excused myself to go to the bar for another (it was ten minutes to last call), he took the opportunity to leave. I guess my stance on illegal downloading (hey, he brought the subject up!) didn't turn him on.

Guy #3: Craig, originally from Nova Scotia, but has been living here for several years. We struck up a conversation near the pool table (which I'd been avoiding because my bowling teammate Ralph was playing pool, and whenever he sees me in there I get a litany about how his tennis club is doing, or how he's been bowling recently - and since there's been no bowling for a couple of months, and I don't play tennis, and I was there to work on "Project Jarrod," I saw no point in letting him know that I was there). The conversation was going swimmingly, until he said, "We spent the day in Coburg." I said, "'We' being...?" Turned out he has a boyfriend, who was actually at home asleep. (I still find it weird when one member of a partnership goes out to the bar while the other is at home... it's not the first time I've encountered this.) We still ended up talking until the bar kicked us out, but I was disappointed. He was cute, and nice, and seemed interested in me as a person, if not as anything else.

So... that's twice in a row since I met Jarrod that I've gone out and started conversations with at least three guys. I guess that means I get to email him now and start working on finding someone to ghost-write his book on getting over shyness in bars. ;)

In other news... I picked up a copy of the new issue of Fab magazine tonight. The cover story is "Why Is Science Fiction So Gay?", by Scott Dagonstino. Yup, Gaylaxicon 2006 made the cover of this week's issue. It's too bad we weren't on the cover a week before the con (though there was an article about us in the pre-con issue), but it's an excellent article nontheless.

For those who are interested:

the home page

the cover

Letter from the editor

the article

And now I'm off to bed.