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It's so depressing working with people who are judgmental and clueless about same-sex relationships. None of them know about us, of course, and living in the closet is itself depressing, but listening with a smile to the snide commentary of coworkers is even worse. Just now, some women were hanging around talking, and said something about how one of them hated it when you come up behind her and play with her hair. I said, "I'd have to be a lot closer friends with someone to let them play with my hair." (I was thinking of Jen; playing with each other's hair is one of our favorite ways to express affection.) One said, "But she and I are close." I said, "Not like that." She answered, "Oh, you mean opposite sex close." I said, "I mean, romantically entangled." Which isn't entirely accurate, on reflection, but no one in that group was going to get into my 'cuddly-friends' category, either.

For some reason, and it may have just been non sequitur, she then asked the group, "Did you hear about that high school where the two girls were elected class sweethearts?" I refrained from commenting, as the rest of them said things like "It just shows..." with the deprecatory inflection that always means "...how society is going down the drain." Meanwhile I was thinking how I wished my high school had been that open-minded. I don't know of *any same-sex couples during my high school years. This may be because I myself was a judgmental fundamentalist christian at the time (people do change, don't they? ;-) ) but if they were openly gay even I'd have known. There just weren't any out couples.

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Jen came over last night to game with me. I love her so much; she makes me so happy just being around her. We have so much fun taking everything the wrong way, and commenting behind the backs of the other people we game with. We laugh together continually and seem to read each other's minds, making the same sarcastic comments at the same time.

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So I skipped playing Amber tonight--the GM told me yesterday he was probably going to be unable to run a game anyway--in favor of going to McGurk's Irish Pub for Jody's 35th birthday party. I ate way too much and now I feel sick. Still, it was fun hanging out with a group of geeks-like-me and talking about things like gaming and rockclimbing and, oh, did I mention they're not just geeks they're outdoorsy geeks?

Jody is the one who took me for my first ever kayaking trip this past July on the St Francis River. The "Saint" is normally only runnable between December and April or so, but this summer we had a week's worth of heavy rain in mid-July, so there was just five days or so where the water was up.

We had gone just once to Creve Coeur Lake so he could teach me some basics, and then the river suddenly came up. Of course I said I'd go, and it was absolutely wonderful fun. I was actually pretty good at it, too. Experience at canoeing and whitewater rafting carried over so that I usually knew what I was trying to do (which side of a rock to steer for, that sort of thing), though the difference in paddling meant I didn't always get there.

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I'm getting a bit annoyed...the last three posts I've made refuse to show up on my journal page. I've seen two of them, but then they vanished again. The last one, just not appearing. So this is really a test more than anything, but I'll just leave it til tomorrow after this.