The First

I spent the night at the Watergarden last night. Had to. J had company over, and it was better for me to make myself scarce. Ah, the joy of sharing a house with people. I can't beat the deal, though. Good rent, nice location, decent views of downtown. I wish the Lord of the Manor would fix the dishwasher, though. He takes his own damn time on everything. Anyway.

So I was at the Watergarden, it was 2-ish. I was a little tired because I worked all day Saturday, and I was relaxing in the hot tub. I didn't see anyone in the hot tub when I entered, and if I had, I would have apologized for the splash I made. The water felt so good on my tired legs and feet, I just sort of crashed into it. K said, "feels good, huh?" He freaked the shit out of me. You know, stomach in my throat, shivers up my spine kinda freaked. I just didn't expect anyone to be there. After all, it is a semi-public place. "Oh," I said. "Sorry, I didn't see you there. Sorry about the splash." "No problem. It's only water."

So we started talking. Small talk of course, which I loathe. "Nice weather." "Look at all the stars." "Did you come by yourself?" I just don't understand why people are so uncomfortable with silence. Elevators, the bus, the subway, even the office. The banter of it all. The meaningless, petty, irrelevant, yet mostly innocuous chit-chat at the watercooler. I prefer to live in peace and quiet. If the silence is deafening, I pop in my earphones and listen to my music. Mlle Boulay, je suis tombé toi! I guess it's my way of tuning out the world. Yes, this man is an island. Anyway...again.

So we just chatted about this and that and whatever. He was too cute to ignore, and considering that he was so friendly and forthright, I would have felt like a clod if I had ignored him. I put on my best small talk hat, and tried to be friendly. After about twenty minutes, I got out to shower off the chlorine, and he followed me. Blah blah blah, cut to my rent-a-bed, and it turns out he's sweet and funny and happily married. In fact, he asked if A could watch. Uh huh. Yeah. "I guess so, if he's into that." "Oh, he is." And he was. I won't go into gory details, but it was good. I was relieved to hear him admit that first. A liked it, too. He even offered to mop us up. How thoughtful.

So we sat and talked some more, and then they left for home-sweet-home. I took another shower and fell asleep. I woke up just in time to check out. Now I'm back at work, clearing off my hard drive. I have accumulated so many .mp3s and .mpgs that my 40GB hard drive is down to 12GB. Fear of that. So, I'll borrow a few CDs and take 'em all home with me.

So this is my first blog. It's a cool idea. I'm sure I'll get the hang of this HTML thing, and I hope to add other stuff to it as well. Who knows.

I was silly enough to write this at 10:28 AM