The Other Side Of Me

This Blog is a documentation, a day-to-day account of my coming out process. This is here so people can read, and see where i've made mistakes and where i've made progress, so that during their coming out they can attempt to avoid or emulate those things. It is also here, to show the struggle me and many others have faced, when coming to terms with our sexuality.

8/22/2004

a VERY good day...

Despite being sick for the last couple hours, I feel know that today has been a great day. Today has been undeniably great, because I meet, in person, the guy I’ve been messaging the last couple days. I'm glad I loaded trillian when I did, or I might have missed out. I 'helped' him work on some computers that needed to be finished networked, mostly I fumbled around (Me and networking don't actually always see eye to eye, and Novel... well I hardly used Novel in my Novel Class, because we spent half the time trying to install Novel on the server; they might need to read the sys req next time :) ). But overall it was a great day, not to say that it couldn’t of been better; it could of (me not being sick or nervous). It wasn't him it was me, I felt too nervous, I don't know why, he is a great guy. I guess it was because this was my first time talking to a person that was 'in the same boat' as me; but for some odd reason I didn't shake, I usually do when I’m nervous. But the fun doesn’t end there kids...

I had to tell my dad that I was going with him (he was asking questions), I made up some bullshit, as usual... but I didn't flat out lie, I just bent the truth. But that’s not the fun part... the fun part was when my mom came home, and my dad said I was on a date, with a guy... and my mom said something along the lines of 'so what?' (At least that’s what my sister said, they had the whole conversation while i was gone, and my sister told me about it). So that gave me a boost today, but that still doesn’t convince me that she would take it well (I have no idea how my dad would take it); I need to see how she said it, maybe she said it jokingly. But all in all it has been a really great day, I just hope tomorrow (I go back to school tomorrow) won't bring me down.

4 Comments:

Blogger Brent said...

YAY! Happy for ya that you finally got to talk to another gay guy in person. It really is an entirely different kind of support than you get from talking to people online. Sounds like your parents probably do have some idea. Hopefully they'll be as sool with it as it seems they would be. And congratulations on not shaking...you did better than I did.

As for Novel... If Microsoft is demonic, Novel is evil incarnate. I don't understand what people see in it. *shakes head* Whatever. ;-)

8/23/2004 12:49 PM  
Blogger Brian Smith said...

Ya... I’m still happy, during class yesterday; all I could think about was meeting him. And it is WAY different then talking to someone online, I guess it’s the whole "having a face to go with the person" thing. Even though pictures are good when online, they are still static, and obviously lack body language.

I guess my parents might have figured it out by now; you know, with the lack of dating, not talking about girls, and when girlfriends and me are brought up changing the subject... I guess I’m not as good of a 'Straight guy' as I though I was. lol.

And the whole not shacking surprised me. It was the first time I ever meet someone I knew only online, it was also the first time I’ve meet someone that knew I was gay (before they knew me, almost forgot about my sisters), and it was the first time getting into a car with someone I haven't meet before. So I should of been on the ground in convulsions. lol.

8/24/2004 1:07 PM  
Blogger Brent said...

Heh, it's probably a good thing you weren't. It's hard to be certain, but that may not have impressed. ;-)

Hope that school's going as well for ya. :-)

8/24/2004 1:19 PM  
Blogger Brian Smith said...

lol... If he did see me convulsing on the ground he probably would think I was reenacting something I seen in the exorcist. I could see it now... he walks up to me and says, "The Power of Christ Compels you..." Then my Demonic Cat Would Attack him.

8/24/2004 2:04 PM  

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