Got my spring schedule together and up on the website. It feels good to plan activities, presentations, talks, and events to take me in new directions.
I declined to organize the Lit-Bear-ary event that I put together the last two years for IBR. They wanted me to organize it for them without my being there. I told them three months ago yet had to explain repeatedly that I wasn't able to organize it because I was in treatment and recovery. I prepared to send a note like, “What part of 'cancer treatment' don't you get?” but thanks to my dear Webdaddy Jeff, cooler heads prevailed and I simply restated I could offer no further help; they should cancel the event if they couldn't handle it themselves; and that I wished the space to recover in peace.
Of course, that was before Hal up and died. I have a message on my machine still from Hall, just a few hours before he went to dialysis. Bob, a manager pal from 119 Merrimac who now runs the Alley, contacted me to speak at Hal's memorial tomorrow night there. http://www.thealleybar.com/bears.html
And that was before the New Orleans gay bookstore FAB invited me and my KINK coeditor Paul, who lives there, to do a reading while I'll be down there for a few weeks – yes, ostensibly for R&R. R&R also stands for Rocco & Ron now, ahem. Rocco and I are flying down together and staying at the Sweet Olive http://www.sweetolive.com/ , and he'll return after a week. The trip should be fun, and kinda intense.
It's official, now. Rocco and I are boyfriends! He even joked that we couldn't sleep in the same bed unless we were engaged, pretending to be virginal or something; I countered that I would never get engaged unless we had sex first. But it's so amazing to have such an impressive fellow walk into my life right now and sweep me off my feet. I don't think I've met anyone as perceptive and caring and fun and sensual. But it happens at a time when I have a lot of personal needs that must be prioritized. I need to take care of myself, to restore and guard my health. But when Rocco came down
Lotsa new stuff going on the Websites. Funny how I'd forgotten how easy updating pages can be – if I'm concentrating and not trying to accomplish a quillion other things.
[[[ Quillion = a queer and very oversexed number involving lots of holes (0's) ]]] That reminds me – I want to put up a page of old ronologisms.
Grrrreat news! YAYYYYY! A publisher has accepted the Bi Men and Bi Guys anthologies, and I'm looking forward to exploring bi/poly communities and personalities. I'm especially looking forward to working with my coeditorbear for the nonfiction antho, Pete < trapezebear > and getting to know him better. Vuff!
