Since practically everybody I know was going out of town for the Labor Day weekend (Raymond, Beauyn, Henry), I expected to be a little lonely, or at least alone. Didn’t turn out that way though.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, I went to Omega, and ran into a guy who I’d met just the previous weekend, a friend of Raymond’s friend Randy. (Raymond just knows him as an acquaintance, I think.) His name is Eric Roberts, like the actor. He’s 26, good-looking, with auburn hair and a very nice guy. We basically wound up spending most of the weekend together. <\/p>\n
It started on Friday as though it was just going to be a hook-up. We went to his place — actually the place where he’s pet-sitting. When I told him about my HIV status, though, he kind of put the brakes on. He’s had a lot of loss in his life lately (mainly his father having a massive stroke), and it seems like he wants to avoid any more grief. But he decided to think about it, and we actually went out on a date last night, Saturday. We went to see Planet of the Apes.<\/i><\/p>\n
The movie was ridiculous, but the date was nice. He still seems a little skittish, and he did kind of back out of getting together this afternoon for a little picnic in the park sort of thing. But whatever happens, it was great to have someone to share the weekend with, and it was great to have a little romance in my life for a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since practically everybody I know was going out of town for the Labor Day weekend (Raymond, Beauyn, Henry), I expected to be a little lonely, or at least alone. Didn’t turn out that way though. On Friday night, I went to Omega, and ran into a guy who I’d met just the previous weekend, a friend of Raymond’s friend Randy. (Raymond just knows him as an acquaintance, I think.) His name is Eric Roberts, like the actor. He’s 26, good-looking, with auburn hair and a very nice guy. We basically wound up spending most of the weekend together. It started on Friday as though it was just going to be a hook-up. We went to his place — actually the place where he’s pet-sitting. When I told him about my HIV status, though, he kind of put the brakes on. He’s had a lot of loss in his life lately (mainly his father having a massive stroke), and it seems like he wants to avoid any more grief. But he decided to think about it, and we actually went out on a date last night, Saturday. We went to see Planet of the Apes. The movie was ridiculous, but the date was nice. He still seems a little skittish, and he did kind of back out of getting together this afternoon for a little picnic in the park sort of thing. But whatever happens, it was great to have someone to share the weekend with, and it was great to have a little romance in my life for a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2001-2002"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since practically everybody I know was going out of town for the Labor Day weekend (Raymond, Beauyn, Henry), I expected to be a little lonely, or at least alone. Didn’t turn out that way though. On Friday night, I went to Omega, and ran into a guy who I’d met just the previous weekend, a…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}