Thurs: It's ridiculously windy today, as in newspaper boxes pushed over by the wind downtown windy. I'm on the lightrail listening to a cell phone conversation in Somali and watching a guy multitask picking his nose and texting. I'm wondering if I will blow away while running around the lake and what would be a better route for an easy four miles.
The morning darkness until almost 7 a.m. has me getting there and working later and I am preoccupied with trying out new methods for doing my job faster/ more productively... Ready for the weekend to whiz by...
Fri: Here I am back on the lightrail platform, doing it all over again. The run went ok except as it got dark there were all these creepy young dudes hanging around the park in little groups on their bicycles, smoking and clearly enjoying the way runners and bikers were cutting a wide swath around them. Glad I only had to run 3, it turned out, which does not require going around the lake or too far down suddenly deserted streets...
Read the City Pages' not very informative (quite structureless, in the way of the new internet-influenced journalism...) article about the teen suicide epidemic in Anoka-Hennepin school district right before going to bed and had weird dreams. People are always saying how it's so much better for the queer kids and there are so many resources and the web and all, or how they personally have not faced real harassment or discrimination for being LG or B (usually not T...), and why are there so many whiny, negative social issue complaint queer fictions... I am often annoyed by the repetitiveness of queer fiction, poetry, and especially that sad artifact of crappy funding structures called queer film, but why the stories about bashing, abuse, assaults, etc. are so prevalent I get. People have a need to tell those stories because it's cathartic and they're still needed on the readerend. Hence the popularity of a grim story like Brokeback Mountain. I tend to get impatient with some of my favorite writers' impatience with non-sexy fun queer fiction. Getting to sexy fun ueer is not always sexy or fun, and.people have to work that stuff out. The influence of highly intolerant community
"leaders" of late makes this hardly a moot issue.
The Big Gay Race is one attempt to address this. It's always nice to run in a queer-leaning crowd, a break from the usual scene. And a worthy cause, soon to be bigger news as the battle looms...
Anyway. Tired. Ready for the weekend and enjoying the fall colors and fall cleanup season of toil and back trouble... Maybe a little grumpy, eh... Someone has to balance out my carefree, leaf-loving dog...
CP Article link here
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