A Definitely Different Day

So today is like the anti-yesterday. These really should be called something like "Honey, how was your day?" pages, because that's how I feel - like I'm answering that question. Repeatedly. But right now I'm addicted and can't stop. Today started out much the same as yesterday with me getting up extra early for my walk. I wanted to get breakfast at Denny's but they were closed for maintenance. What the heck has to happen for them to CLOSE A DENNY'S? So I wound up with Starbucks and discovered that yes, indeedy, Tangerine does taste even better with a shot of vanilla. Try it. I dare you. My boss's wife came into the office today. She is a piece of work. She just keeps pushing his buttons all day long. I swear it's like some kind of sick hetero foreplay. I have no idea why somebody would put up with that sort of thing. Hence, my script. In which I am the hero and may or may not eventually save my boss from a fate worse than death. They need to make self-help handbooks for that sort of thing - What to Do When Someone You Know is PW'd. Seriously. One of those instances where I would have a lot more credibility if I was born with a couple of xy chromosomes instead of the dos equis I was dealt. But today was bad, he started yelling at her to get out of the office, repeatedly. She threatened to quit - nearly yay, until I realized that might screw up the payroll - not like it's been on time for the past couple of checks, but still. So she left and he's living in the office tonight more than likely. It's time like these that I'm incredibly grateful to be single - the others are when I am just out of relationships that have run their course. And that's what I write about - love letters to single folk. Very serious here. There's not a lot of films that end up where the boy doesn't get the boy or the girl or the girl doesn't get the boy or the girl or at least working toward it. There are very few that end up with a guy or a gal walking into the sunset by themselves knowing that they'll be okay. They aren't going to die, they're not some kind of social leper and that's just the way it is for them at that moment. That's one of the things I hate/despise/abhor about the movie "All Over the Guy". Seems the theme of that movie was "you can be good at relationship if only you change". I was thisclose to the writer of that film at a recent Outfest and I just wanted to grab him and yell at him for making such a piece of monkey shite. Because there are some people who are NO FRIGGING GOOD AT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS and that's not necessarily a bad thing unless they are continually surrounded by people who try to drag them into those types of situations. Or tell them they can change. I just pictured many many many gay men drinking heavily after that film. Or poking their eyes out with a sharp stick. Contrast that with the kinder gentler film "The Broken Hearts Club". I literally wept during that film, especially toward the end when Dennis says, (consulting script by Greg Berlanti) "The problem is that I'm not ready for it. I thought all a relationship would take was meeting the right person. But it's about so much more than that." Deep sigh. It was so validating. And that's really what I want to do. Validate the reality of single people, that we can be leading characters in something other than action films. End of soapbox. The nice thing about today is that the heat has dissipated somewhat and here I sit with all the windows open and the fan going and it's cooler than it's been in what seems like a long, long time.

A Definitely Different Day

So today is like the anti-yesterday. These really should be called something like "Honey, how was your day?" pages, because that's how I feel - like I'm answering that question. Repeatedly. But right now I'm addicted and can't stop. Today started out much the same as yesterday with me getting up extra early for my walk. I wanted to get breakfast at Denny's but they were closed for maintenance. What the heck has to happen for them to CLOSE A DENNY'S? So I wound up with Starbucks and discovered that yes, indeedy, Tangerine does taste even better with a shot of vanilla. Try it. I dare you. My boss's wife came into the office today. She is a piece of work. She just keeps pushing his buttons all day long. I swear it's like some kind of sick hetero foreplay. I have no idea why somebody would put up with that sort of thing. Hence, my script. In which I am the hero and may or may not eventually save my boss from a fate worse than death. They need to make self-help handbooks for that sort of thing - What to Do When Someone You Know is PW'd. Seriously. One of those instances where I would have a lot more credibility if I was born with a couple of xy chromosomes instead of the dos equis I was dealt. But today was bad, he started yelling at her to get out of the office, repeatedly. She threatened to quit - nearly yay, until I realized that might screw up the payroll - not like it's been on time for the past couple of checks, but still. So she left and he's living in the office tonight more than likely. It's time like these that I'm incredibly grateful to be single - the others are when I am just out of relationships that have run their course. And that's what I write about - love letters to single folk. Very serious here. There's not a lot of films that end up where the boy doesn't get the boy or the girl or the girl doesn't get the boy or the girl or at least working toward it. There are very few that end up with a guy or a gal walking into the sunset by themselves knowing that they'll be okay. They aren't going to die, they're not some kind of social leper and that's just the way it is for them at that moment. That's one of the things I hate/despise/abhor about the movie "All Over the Guy". Seems the theme of that movie was "you can be good at relationship if only you change". I was thisclose to the writer of that film at a recent Outfest and I just wanted to grab him and yell at him for making such a piece of monkey shite. Because there are some people who are NO FRIGGING GOOD AT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS and that's not necessarily a bad thing unless they are continually surrounded by people who try to drag them into those types of situations. Or tell them they can change. I just pictured many many many gay men drinking heavily after that film. Or poking their eyes out with a sharp stick. Contrast that with the kinder gentler film "The Broken Hearts Club". I literally wept during that film, especially toward the end when Dennis says, (consulting script by Greg Berlanti) "The problem is that I'm not ready for it. I thought all a relationship would take was meeting the right person. But it's about so much more than that." Deep sigh. It was so validating. And that's really what I want to do. Validate the reality of single people, that we can be leading characters in something other than action films. End of soapbox. The nice thing about today is that the heat has dissipated somewhat and here I sit with all the windows open and the fan going and it's cooler than it's been in what seems like a long, long time.