I met someone awesome today!
I was just about to eat some sleeping pills and go to bed (I have been having trouble sleeping lately) but I wanted to talk about someone before I ruin my brain for the rest of the night (and tomorrow morning) with benedryl.
Anyway. So between the last few days I haven't gotten much sleep. I'm talking maybe 8 hours between the last three days (8 total, not 8 a night). This prompted me to nap on the bus (a half hour ride) this morning and then attempt to nap on the way back this afternoon.
I couldn't sleep on the bart because there were too many people on it, but I did have my hood up (it makes me feel less weird if I have to close my eyes) and at some point someone sat next to me. I was just going to try to sleep anyway and keep my hood up, but something compelled me to remove the hood and I did. A few minutes later this man who had sat next to me asked me a question about the stops on the bus and I answered his question, and we talked a little about public transportation, owning a car, thinking about owning a vespa (which I refuse to do in case of rain) and then I told him that I enjoyed public transportation because it has given me time to read in the morning and afternoon. In the last two weeks I have read three books (I finished slaughterhouse 5 today, by the way, which is why I was attempting to sleep on the bus... I thouroughly enjoyed it (the book)!). He noted the book in my bag (my see through bag, which is a different bag than the one i posted last time, by the way, this one much cooler and bigger and tote-bagish). I told him that in fact, I had just finished my current book and I was on my way to pick up another one, an autobiography by Brigid Berlin, when he proceeded to tell me about a documentary about Jackie Kennedy's sister and her crazy life, and he also mentioned Edie Sedgwick, and the tumultuous lives of rich, crazy drugged up socialites in the sixties. This prompted me to tell him about the last book I had read, called Tramps Like Us by Joe Westermoreland, which had that spirit, but with a gay man (and gay men) in the late seventies to early eighties, and I described the spirit of the book to him, and he found it intriguing. I wrote down the name of the documentary he told me about and he wrote down the name of the book and we talked for a bit while he told me a little bit about some things going on between him and his boyfriend and gay liberation in the seventies and after the aids scare had subsided... it was really a great conversation, and then he had to get off the bus.
I love meeting interesting people who talk about interesting things. I really hope I run into this guy again. I'll offer to buy him a coffee. He seemed really nice and I hope wherever he is now he is living good times.
Also, I've made up some new slang at my work to describe certain drinks and customers go crazy for them. When I have a few more, I'll post about them here.
Tomorrow is laundry and go buy that biography day (half price books didn't have it). Today is sleep and special lifetime movie marathon day. Wish me luck, folks.
Anyway. So between the last few days I haven't gotten much sleep. I'm talking maybe 8 hours between the last three days (8 total, not 8 a night). This prompted me to nap on the bus (a half hour ride) this morning and then attempt to nap on the way back this afternoon.
I couldn't sleep on the bart because there were too many people on it, but I did have my hood up (it makes me feel less weird if I have to close my eyes) and at some point someone sat next to me. I was just going to try to sleep anyway and keep my hood up, but something compelled me to remove the hood and I did. A few minutes later this man who had sat next to me asked me a question about the stops on the bus and I answered his question, and we talked a little about public transportation, owning a car, thinking about owning a vespa (which I refuse to do in case of rain) and then I told him that I enjoyed public transportation because it has given me time to read in the morning and afternoon. In the last two weeks I have read three books (I finished slaughterhouse 5 today, by the way, which is why I was attempting to sleep on the bus... I thouroughly enjoyed it (the book)!). He noted the book in my bag (my see through bag, which is a different bag than the one i posted last time, by the way, this one much cooler and bigger and tote-bagish). I told him that in fact, I had just finished my current book and I was on my way to pick up another one, an autobiography by Brigid Berlin, when he proceeded to tell me about a documentary about Jackie Kennedy's sister and her crazy life, and he also mentioned Edie Sedgwick, and the tumultuous lives of rich, crazy drugged up socialites in the sixties. This prompted me to tell him about the last book I had read, called Tramps Like Us by Joe Westermoreland, which had that spirit, but with a gay man (and gay men) in the late seventies to early eighties, and I described the spirit of the book to him, and he found it intriguing. I wrote down the name of the documentary he told me about and he wrote down the name of the book and we talked for a bit while he told me a little bit about some things going on between him and his boyfriend and gay liberation in the seventies and after the aids scare had subsided... it was really a great conversation, and then he had to get off the bus.
I love meeting interesting people who talk about interesting things. I really hope I run into this guy again. I'll offer to buy him a coffee. He seemed really nice and I hope wherever he is now he is living good times.
Also, I've made up some new slang at my work to describe certain drinks and customers go crazy for them. When I have a few more, I'll post about them here.
Tomorrow is laundry and go buy that biography day (half price books didn't have it). Today is sleep and special lifetime movie marathon day. Wish me luck, folks.