Rudynate

When I was in 11th grade - I had a mad crush on my English teacher. He was very sexy, in an unusual way. The girls swooned over him and I sat in my seat in English class trying to conceal a raging boner nearly every day. They gave the assignment of having to do a project on a 20th century American author - we got to choose the author. Of course, half the kids wanted to do Steinbeck and the other half wanted to do Hemingway. I was going to do Steinbeck, but the teacher said he wanted me to do a particular author - Sherwood Anderson. His best known work is a book of short stories about people in a fictional town called Winesburg, Ohio and that was the book's title. He told me to start with that book. In this book, there was a story about a teacher, who had fluttery, expressive hands that made all the men in town nervous. He ended up getting run out of town after one of his male students developed a mad crush on him. The boy was so lovesick that he began telling people about his fantasies, and, because they were uncomfortable with him anyway, they believed that the teacher was actually doing improper things with his students. I didn't think a thing of it at the time, but many years later, it suddenly dawned on me that he had known how in lust I was with him.

Dad is disposable - what a grateful son.

I think people are careless in their use of the term "exposed." To me, "exposed" does not mean "infected." An exposure means you came in contact with someone who was infected, but it doesn't necessarily mean you were infected. I'm sure I was exposed many times, but I don't think I was ever infected.

No, I haven't had it either. In June 2020, when availability of COVID tests was sketchy, I had an antibody test that was negative. I think I have had three COVID tests, all negative and I have had 5 or 6 self-administered antigen tests, all negative. I've had a full complement of vaccinations and boosters, so I imagine an antibody test would be positive.

I had a guy host me once in a seedy travelodge. Just because it was him, I didn’t mind-much.

There are actually a few of these vendors now.

It's very active.

I'm not into overnights and I like afternoon appointments, plus I like nice surroundings. I like to get a day rate at a nice place downtown or in the financial district. I have also noticed that the rates at airport properties are lower so I think the Westin or the Hyatt at the airport would be nice.

I'm wondering what is up with all these gorgeous young guys on hookup sites. I see them all the time on A4A. They are usually Asian, but not always. They always say they are new to the US and working in design and they do investing on the side. Then they ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them what I do, they always want to chat more, and they want to move the chat to google chat or Whatsapp. Ive been experimenting with their reaction when I tell them what I do for a living. One time, when he asked what I did for a living, I answered that I was a gardener, which was met with silence. Another time, I answered that I was a janitor, and he responded that I seemed to be good at guarding the door. Another time, I answered that I was out of a job just now and living in a homeless shelter and could he help me out. He answered "yes, what do you need?" Another time, when he asked if I had any investments, I said that I did but I didn't want to discuss them. Silence. Sometimes they post pictures of these palatial places where they are supposed to live. Are they different guys, all running the same scam, or is it one guy that's responsible for all of them? I get a lot of them. Do I fit some sort of profile or is this random? Are they targeting older guys? It's puzzling.

Right - wait until I'm gone before you eliminate all traces of me.

I like a luggage rack for that. I'm bummed when I stay at a place and they don't have a luggage rack in the room.

Amen. Unless it wasn't a good experience, why wouldn't you want to sleep in sheets that still smelled like your man? When I was a very young man, I went home with an older guy. The next morning, as he was tidying up, he pulled the sheets off the bed. I was a little offended. He asked me over again several times, but the sheet thing bothered me, so I never went back.

That's smart sales - selling them on the benefits rather than the features.

They already know that they want/need it or they wouldn't be calling me. The deliverable is a patent application, one of the most difficult legal instruments there is to draft. I could tell them that it's a long, drawn-out administrative law process, and I could tell them how many degrees I have, how issued many patents I have secured for other clients and so on, but they don't care. They have the idea in their mind that applying for a patent is something like getting a driver's license, and I'm supposed to fix that for them somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbk9tyJVyA I found this angelic boy this morning on youtube.

I'll remember that - because I do love to waste time.

Very good advice. I understand his frustrations, but he keeps doing the same thing with these loser prospects and expecting a different result. Time wasters are time wasters. Cheap bastards are cheap bastards. You need to use screening questions to identify them and get rid of them. My favorites, in my business, are the ones who ask,"Why does it cost so much?" I used to reason with them like Jarrod does, but a long time ago I realized I don't owe them an explanation and learned to anwer them "Because it does. Anything else?" And then get off the phone.

That is totally sexy.

we could learn a duet

I also work at the piano. My skill level is probably late intermediate or early advanced. A few years ago, I tried an experiment. One of my favorite pieces is the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata - a virtuoso piece. I thought, "Why couldn't I acquire the required skills as I'm learning the piece?" So I started on it, worked on it for a few years. I finally got it to the point where people who don't know music thought it was amazing, but people who know music would say "not bad." I haven't given up on it though, I just realized you have to have a teacher for a piece of that difficulty. I just found a simple transcript of the Overture to Bach's Cantata #29 (the Ratswahl Cantata). So I'm ready to take that on.

I forgot to mention that Toronto is one of my favorite cities in North America.

Been there in the mid-winter at least a couple times - definitely cold but no worse then Rochester, directly across the lake, where I grew up.

I first noticed him in the movie Swordfish in 2001. A short time after that, I saw him doing a song-and-dance routine on TV. I remember my thought was "flamer." I remember reading an interview in some publication on the internet and he was talking about suffering and hardship and how much he had learned about it when he was staying in a hotel in Toronto in the middle of the winter and the hot water ran out and he had to take a cold shower. I thought,"Seriously!?!?! You think having to take a cold shower in a luxury hotel is suffering???" He should have been embarrassed to have said that.

Kaiser is supposed to have the new booster any time.

I'm the same - I have never lost my temper with anyone during a contest prep - but sometimes it takes nerves of steel not too. My husband's oldest sister drives me crazy sometimes. He forgot that I was going to be prepping for a show and invited her to come stay during that time. She got there the night before we were to leave for LA for a national show. I was so brittle that I didn't feel up to speaking with her when she got there and I asked my husband to explain. The next morning I was able to be sparkly and nice and tell her how nice it was to see her.