Any Day Above Water is A Good Day

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature – Dave Barry

Had a heart to heart with L, man of mystery, told him I’m not up for prime-time, said I am fickle these days, he said no worries, he is fickle too – so we are going to go get a gelato and be neighbors when I get back from Arkansas – which feels a whole lot better than trying to date. He’s a hottie and a nice guy, so what the hell, more men friends, just what I needed. Then I ended up seeing him late last night and didn’t have to go through the whole spiel again.

Long bike ride in the morning and wound up back by the LaLa and W and L were there. Said they drove up and laughed cuz no one was a the house as usual. I told them very funny – ha ha. So I said I was hoping the new contractor would take the project on. They said that would be good as the “idiot” who was doing the siding kept talking about how much a fuck up Bud was (jealous) and how much money he makes ($75,000 a year) – L said “what do I care how much that little twerp makes?” and W said, “yeah, I make $7500 a year, so there” – those two are a comedy team. Anyway I told them I moved the tub myself and got wedged in the doorway and ripped the box – I asked them if they could fix it for me. When I was leaving I said “have a good day” and W said, “any day above water is a good day darling.”

Had a long talk with M, who left OTR many years ago – she has been trying to adopt in China but she’s gotten caught up in this whole abrupt shutdown that is going on. There was a baby selling ring in Hunan that caused the Chinese government to locked down all the orphanages – they investigated and turns out none of the babies recently adopted in the US had anything to do with this but there are all sorts of concerns there – they are lifting the one baby quota, they have startling evidence that some villages have no girls in them whatsoever and the national average is pitting 120 men to each 100 women, and with the economy improving China is starting to look very hard at its prior adoption policies. Meanwhile M tells me Vietnam has opened and there are other places. She warned that domestic adoption is tough because her cousin recently paid all the medical bills for a woman who changed her mind at the last minute. And M said this happens often. Oh well – what’s harder miscarrying your own babies many times over or being out of some money so that someone else can have a baby – I’d take the latter, hurts less.

Had tickets to see Pretty Girls Make Graves last night at HOB but got distracted with G after the concert on the square watching Anders Osbourne – T had come with us but then left with J, the architect, to go to dinner – G and I hit the Marigny running then wound up at Ralph’s later. Met a guy there J who stayed during Katrina – he was telling us his tale about how he had 100 cases of water and how he had stayed through Betsy and knew what to do.

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