Once upon a time during a drunken taxi ride in Las Vegas in 2008, an idea was born! The idea was that it would be super fun and funny to do a parody of Bananarama's "Look on the Floor" video. 2 years later, that idea became reality and here's the video! I'm one of Dancers! Yay!

Coachella last weekend was so super-dooper amazing awesome!! It hurts not to be there with my friends! As one friend put it, the weekend was "unrelenting epicness!" Why does next year have to feel so far away?!?!

So it looks like we finally have reform, and it brings me some peace knowing that friends that can't get it will eventually be able to have coverage sometime in the next few years.

I have mixed feelings though. I went to Denver last year fighting for the public option, and I still believe in the public option....This reform is nowhere near adequate in my mind.

I guess this is a start, it does fix some major problems.

Yay to all of us! Just wish I could be more enthusiastic about this.

So I went and got tested for HIV this evening... it was soooo dissapointing!!

I went and tried out Gay City Health, because I wanted to be surrounded by gay people just in case..... anyways, the guy who did my test was entirely too serious and couldn't engage me in conversation to save his life.... I mean common, I come here, you ask me questions, I tell you about my raunchy nasty lifestyle, we laugh about it and chit chat, have a good time, and discuss strategies for staying healthy, all in 15 minutes...

That didn't happen.

He seemed uncomfortable and didn't engage me, and really, the reason why I came to gay city was for the talk! I coulda gone and seen my straight doctor for the experience I had tonight! He was so serious, I thought he was staring at a positive test result the entire time... I really want my old gay doctor back.... oh well.....

The rapid hiv test came out negative.

I've been thinking over the last few months about my interests and goals, and it makes me think about the society we live in and the expectations of its youth... had I not felt it so important to go to school right away after high school, rush through it and graduate, maybe I would have chosen a different major, different school and a different path.

I'm a much different person than I was 10 years ago when I moved to Seattle as a wide-eyed 17 year old college student. My aspirations, goals and dreams are much different now. After a few years of post college life experience, what I want seems much clearer now, and the expectations I have about life feel more solid...

Oh well, I'm a proactive, motivated guy. I've made huge risks to get to where I am now and have been successful, and in the next couple years, I see myself making another leap in a new direction, and hopefully I will again land on my feet. I'll find some way of making things happen the way I want them to, but it probably be easier had I chosen a different academic and career path, didn't have the student loans I have and a car payment I'm locked into for the next few years....

Well, yesterday was exactly a year since Jesse broke up with me, and today starts year 2 of being single. As much as I thought I would hate this a year ago, I'm actually loving single life now. I really can't believe I went through those years with Jesse, comprising most of my early and mid-20's, without all the freedom that I have now.

Every once in a while, I'll see a couple together and I'll want that for that instant in time, and then I remember many of the things about relationships that aren't too wonderful, and I'll snap out of my daydreaming. This kinda makes me wonder if I'll ever want a relationship again, under what conditions would I be willing to give up the freedom and the life I live now? What will a guy have to do to convince me that he is worth giving up my freedom? My life is just amazing, the things that I've been able to do this last year were amazing, my freedom is amazing.... why would anyone choose a relationship over this?

Well anyway, life is good, I'm single and loving it, I'm looking forward to many wonderful things the future will bring. With several interesting plans currently in the making, I know that year 2 will be just as exciting and awesome as year 1.

What do you get when the roommate blasts Bananarama's "Look On The Floor" on repeat for several hours???

One very disgruntled Chris..... :-(

So last Wednesday, they had whoever was available in the Denver office drive up to Ft. Collins to participate in the healthcare reform rally.  So, of course, we needed the crowd to get loud with some awesome chants, and my co-worker Daniel took this picture of me while I was leading the chants! :)

On September 1st, I fly back to Seattle for good. Good bye Denver.... This fact has been hitting me pretty hard over the last few weeks.  My campaign is ending, some folks here have already moved on to whatever is next for them, others will be returning to their homes over the next few weeks, and my time here will end just a month from now. 

However, part of me really wants to stay.  I've made good friends here, and Denver has become more and more a home for me.  I look back over the last year and I recall all the good times I've had, the fun trips, and all the great people I've met since coming here, and I realize that I've created something for myself here that's pretty amazing.  To top it all off, Denver is an amazing city, and an amazing place to live.  I came to Denver hurting, just out of a relationship, unsure of where life will take me, and I'm leaving healed, happy, and excited about life. I feel like me again :)..... It's gonna be really hard to leave.

But a month from today, I'm going to have to leave, return to my old life in Seattle, and begin to get my life back in order and move forward.  I need to find where all my stuff is, start my new assignment at work, and start working on relocating away from Seattle.  I'm determined to join my friends in San Francisco, and a move there will hopefully happen by the end of the year. 

I suppose it's exciting to finally get started on moving forward, and I'm looking forward to it.  But a huge part of me feels like the next month will fly by, I will have to say all my good-byes, and leave this temporary Denver life behind.  I just hope that these feelings of excitement and happiness with where I am in life continues after I return home.  It's been several years since I've felt like this and I don't want anything to take this feeling away.

I think I've come to a point to where I'm really liking being single.  It's really kinda awesome.

Now, if I can just get motivated to do my laundry so I can pack up and be single in San Francisco and San Diego, everything would be closer to perfect! ;-)