Missing
Posted in Family on August 2nd, 2002 by ДмитрийI know, I’ve gone missing for quite a while… To tell the truth, it’s been a combination of apathy for the blog and a hectic personal/professional life. In the news has been my more-serious-than-ever job hunt, which has taken a definite turn for the better. I was interviewed yesterday for a very promising position. I’m really hopeful, but I continue to search.
David is taking the news of my imminent arrival into his home well. I’m glad. I do love my boy.
But life continues to be rather hectic when it’s not just downright unnerving. The departure date from Fresno, employment permitting, will most likely be 8 August. This is tentative, though.
I noticed the other day as I was hanging out with Amy that sometime in June I stopped going out to bars and pubs… This is a real feat, believe it or not, considering it used to be at least a twice- or thrice-weekly activity of mine to go down to Fred’s or the Den or ‘Stone’s or some other friendly local dive all alone just for a brew or two. I have tried to figure out why… I thought it may have been the fact that I was now on Accupril® , which screws with my metabolism and heart function in a way which is strongly exacerbated by alcohol; but then, I still share a beer with Amy almost every week, and often with Sis and even other occasions… I thought it was maybe the schedule I’ve had to manage lately; but I’ve always somehow been able to fit in brew time and social time… I thought maybe it was the funk I’ve been in sporadically since the beginning of the month; but that seems like it would be more likely to induce pub-going than prevent it…
My only conclusion has been that I just don’t exactly care for the old bars anymore. The people in this town that once excited me and with whom I once shared so much in common now bore me. I don’t really care to see the same faces, the same sad situations, the same depressing sameness. Fresno is still, from everything I can tell, the best city for my tastes. But the fact that it is so diseased with a sort of downer sadness is becoming intolerable. The people seem dazed and unhappy and nothing really excites me or intrigues me. Everything about the place that I loved has pretty much been consumed by a blight of disuse and dullness. It was the Fresno of 1998 that I loved. Now that Fresno is gone.
But here’s to finding a new home in the big city. A wonderful boy to share my life with and a city to keep me occupied for at least a short while. I’ll return to Fresno one day… maybe in an urn or a coffin.
No guarantees on a speedy coming update. But I promise I’ll be here in some way. This weekend will be spent with the parents, then next weekend is David’s birthday bash . Follow that up with the big maternal family reunion on the 18th, and August will almost be over. I can feel that move creeping up on me more speedily than ever… I don’t mind, really…