enjoyment in july

after 4 weeks of this new management role i can finally say i had an enjoyable day | it is a tough assignment ... not the toughest i have had and only 6 months to facilitate so much that i believe needs to be done | am finding some tasmanian government organisations and particularly in this instance seem to be a time machine journey backwards, 15 if not 20 years

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am distinctly missing my man this week, even though i hardly have enough energy after work to mumble more than a few syllables | am missing the physical closeness, the warmth & the hilarity of our day to day lives

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but relief is in sight this weekend as the hairy D touches down on Elba bringing relief, great wine & company the not to be sniffed at, delicious physical pleasures of intimate understanding ... lol ... & enjoyment

birthday men | droo

it was my great mate's birthday a week ago | a mercurial, amusing & handsome fella i have known for not even 2 years yet but who has had an influence on my thinking & life that he is not even aware of | we see each other occasionally as i pass his abode every march & sometimes in melbourne when visiting for male to male or male to many males primal experiences | droo & i share a love for the word cunt & he is the only gen Y fella i really know | i will no doubt spend the rest of my life trying to see inside a gen Y brain, ouch! ... he is the guinea pig | heh droo ... thanks for just being droo

birthday women | janiece

it is my great friend Janiece's birthday this july | we went to Uni together & were both viewed as a bit wacky by most | she is the only person to make me laugh with a mouthful full of cheesecake & the result being a large projectile spray of cheesecake granules & biscuit base over the front window of a neat adelaidean cafe for all on the street & inside the cafe to see | Janiece is my closest link to the Empress Eugenie of France, caus she looks like her love child! lol | happy birthday to such an important friend of which no subject is verbotten & who i miss dreadfully on my island paradise

birthday women | judy

it is my great friend Judy's birthday this july | a former employee who's joie de vive knows no bounds | we clicked the day we met & have been touchstones for each other & helped each other discover that men & careers are a fine balance & that 'teams' in the workplace are a crap concept way past its use by date ... we both believe in benevolent aesthetic facism as a leadership approach | Judy is my only link to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as she is her love child, true! | happy birthday to JB & much love & affection to a friend who has been so supportive & ready to wisk me off to the latest & grooviest eateries & bars of Melbourne ... miss you awfully

phrases not sentences

after much cajoling from mates of mine, virtual & physical, i have scheduled time in to update | but not in a long winded way | am going to use the traditional literature form of arab culture & use phrases to communicate rapidly! | read Naguib Mahfouz and you will understand

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listened to Camille Saint-Saens 3 movement from his Organ Symphony this morning & cried | finished Anne de Courcy's sometimes light but galloping newly published bio of Lord Snowdon & discovered another human being who, like me, compartmentalises his life | am nursing 2 dogs & 1 cat after a job lot, group discount on desexing on Thursday & all are languorous, sad, resentful & planning revenge in my absence | am completely shattered by my new mega $ management role & mustn't fall into past behaviour of letting it control not only my waking but also my non-waking hours | the beautiful douglas spent last weekend with a shell 'shlocked' me | my mate ian moved out to work & live in bendigo | am alone again & enjoying the hermit like existence & raking leaves whenever there is light on this island | haven't thought of sex or smiled at any hot pulp mill worker for 5 days until right now ... aw shit, that's my reflection! lol | saw sex n the city ... yawn really, as it was a bit lame & i was not convinced of 'big's character | he being my favourite character as i am so like him | went with my female alta ego Wendy [see below] my intellectual sparring partner so naturally we picked the script to death but did laugh at all the right places, although no one else in the audience did | does that mean gen y & 'gen-lite' don't get irony? | maybe USA cultural imports are finally inflitrating to the core of the ironic australian psyche | caus in my experience, admittedly of many USA men [rephrase ... beefy hot but ultimately dull men] , the irony thing just don't happen with em!

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participated in a landmark Tasmanian community engagement project yesterday as a 'living book' as part of the 'living library launceston' program | my book title is 'not the only gay in the village' | talk about being popular! | 3 people 'read' me in the space of 2 hrs ... felt like being on an extreme chat show where the audience does the interviewing & not some tedious baby boomer presenter | a fantastic & rare opportunity to dispel some myths about a gay man who ain't 100% gay