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bigmacbear) wrote2009-05-02 08:10 am
bigmacbear) wrote2009-05-02 08:10 am
Entry tags:
- bus,
- chorus,
- food,
- glbt,
- observations
Thursday
Didn't get a chance to blog about Thursday yet. I took the bus in from South Everett Park & Ride, and after work made my way to Cafe Septieme on Capitol Hill.
On the first leg of the run from Bothell to Cap Hill on Route 372, I sat behind a clean shaven, long haired dude who was crashed out in his seat. He woke up and carried on a mostly one-sided conversation with me the rest of the way to UW main campus. He introduced himself as Dave, and told me he was about my age and had an 18-year-old son. Having spent most of his career cooking, he was currently taking odd jobs in landscaping and studying for his Commercial Drivers' License test. One of his obvious interests was muscle cars of the 70's, I also discovered. But he had a habit of speaking in non sequiturs, jumping from topic to topic as though his mouth wasn't keeping up with his brain; on several occasions he mentioned he'd "burned out", perhaps due to a bit too much 420, which caused him a number of problems.
We parted company at UW and I hopped on the 49 electric bus to Cap Hill, stepping off a block from the restaurant.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gmjambear was already there, along with Marie girlfagpnw who organized the whole thing for the visiting bitterlawngnome and danthered. We got to meet artstache and his partner as well as waltzing_mouse. It was also good to see jodfoster whom we hadn't seen in ages, as well as philhasablog and auxugen whom we met here a few months ago. I also got to say hello to alec9 and his wife (Alec is quirkstreet's brother). There were also a couple of younger members of the Chorus there; one of them, Jonathan, was busing tables. The fellow sitting next to me, Bryan (not on LJ but may be found on Marie's blogroll), is a hard-bodied blond bass from San Francisco. He had a brief conversation with Jonathan and thought he was cute. It was also Dining Out for Life day so some of the proceeds of our meal would go to a worthy cause, Lifelong AIDS Alliance. We chatted about art, gay culture, President Obama, and Lord only knows what else, and had some great food.
After dinner we said our goodbyes and caught the 43 bus downtown to catch the 510 bus back to South Everett. Gary had parked right next to me at the Park & Ride. When we got home I fell asleep on the loveseat.
[Edited to remove an unnecessary observation. Thanks and apologies tobitterlawngnome, and thanks to gmjambear, for pointing out the correction.]
On the first leg of the run from Bothell to Cap Hill on Route 372, I sat behind a clean shaven, long haired dude who was crashed out in his seat. He woke up and carried on a mostly one-sided conversation with me the rest of the way to UW main campus. He introduced himself as Dave, and told me he was about my age and had an 18-year-old son. Having spent most of his career cooking, he was currently taking odd jobs in landscaping and studying for his Commercial Drivers' License test. One of his obvious interests was muscle cars of the 70's, I also discovered. But he had a habit of speaking in non sequiturs, jumping from topic to topic as though his mouth wasn't keeping up with his brain; on several occasions he mentioned he'd "burned out", perhaps due to a bit too much 420, which caused him a number of problems.
We parted company at UW and I hopped on the 49 electric bus to Cap Hill, stepping off a block from the restaurant.
gmjambear was already there, along with Marie girlfagpnw who organized the whole thing for the visiting bitterlawngnome and danthered. We got to meet artstache and his partner as well as waltzing_mouse. It was also good to see jodfoster whom we hadn't seen in ages, as well as philhasablog and auxugen whom we met here a few months ago. I also got to say hello to alec9 and his wife (Alec is quirkstreet's brother). There were also a couple of younger members of the Chorus there; one of them, Jonathan, was busing tables. The fellow sitting next to me, Bryan (not on LJ but may be found on Marie's blogroll), is a hard-bodied blond bass from San Francisco. He had a brief conversation with Jonathan and thought he was cute. It was also Dining Out for Life day so some of the proceeds of our meal would go to a worthy cause, Lifelong AIDS Alliance. We chatted about art, gay culture, President Obama, and Lord only knows what else, and had some great food.After dinner we said our goodbyes and caught the 43 bus downtown to catch the 510 bus back to South Everett. Gary had parked right next to me at the Park & Ride. When we got home I fell asleep on the loveseat.
[Edited to remove an unnecessary observation. Thanks and apologies to
bitterlawngnome, and thanks to gmjambear, for pointing out the correction.]
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And thanks so much for being there. It was really nice seeing you!
Oh yes, there were two more LJ'ers there.