2 days!!

I leave in 2 days

and have so much still left to do!



excited
nervous

just two of the many emotions fluttering through my mind right now.


I need sleep. More packing tomorrow. Last time going out tomorrow too. Better make it a good one!

Cheers!

Jon

The time is fast approaching...

Sorry I havent updated in awhile. Life has been really hectic here. So I got my wisdom teeth out two weeks ago. I had a smooth and very rapid recovery (I had it done on a Monday and by Wednesday I out at the bar with my amigos...surprisingly I just had water that night). I got fully cleared for the PC and got my staging kit in the mail yesterday. I will be making my travel arrangements to report to staging in Philly any day now. Also, I am simultaneously trying to learn Portuguese from Rosetta Stone that my family so graciously purchased for me...because you all know I wasn't gonna spend that much money on that.

Today I just finished my last day working at the JCC in ROchester and I moved out of Rochester. I am now living at the parental units house in Amsterdam. Since Dave moved away there are very few people left in Amsterdam, most notably Ms. Angay. But now I have a very sexy lover/friend/? in Albany who I'm happy to spend a majority of my time with. Hey! if he makes me happy why not, right? Now I know what your thinking..."you only have a month or less!" I KNOW THIS. But you who know me, know that I'm crazy. I'm just having a good time with an awesome guy. It's that simple.


I will update more often now that I am home and devoting most of my free time to the PC, friends, family, and lover. Keep watch!

Jon

IT'S OFFICIAL!!

Hello all! BIG NEWS!!! It's official...I am going to be serving in.......


MOZAMBIQUE!!


as a chemistry teacher no less to high schoolers.


I leave September 23, 2007 and will return for good December 10, 2009.




More info is sure to come later...


Jon

Supa excited

So much is happening! So much has happened! I wont bore you with all the details about what has happened to me since my last post. Rather I will comment on the future. Seems weird, right?

Well I have BIG news...

I finally got medically cleared for Peace Corps service!!! I am a multitude of emotions right now...at the forefront are nervousness and excitement. WOW. I mean I am getting closer to leaving everyday. The regional nurse in Washingon, DC told me that I would be placed within the next two weeks and I would be notified ASAP. Well thing is, is that my mum called me and told me a woman from the placement office called and I need to call her back. Of course I did but she was not there...BUMMER!! All this waiting is awful - although at the same time I dont want to know where I am going yet b.c it will all seem so final and just like that, I'll be on my way to a land of desolation and modern asceticism.

Also, I made the appointment to get my wisdom teeth out for the 23rd...anyone want to nurse me back to health?! I prefer nice/hot boys but at this point I'll take anyone! (lol) So after those babies are out I will get my tix in the mail and be off...


OK the future now, so the Boilermaker is Sunday. I am leaving in a bit to go to Utica to engage in the usual Boilermaker weekend traditions. I'll go to the casino tonight and spend money then tomorrow go to the expo and eat all day then Sunday run the big 15k (9.3 miles for you non-runners). I'm running with my old teammate Meredith...we are SUPA EXCITED. Our goal (which will seem slow to the advanced runner) is to cross the finish at less than 1:25:00. Come watch us!!

ROC Pride is next week! Dave is coming up and we are going to have soooo much fun! Finally he will be here after 4 years of never coming to the ROC to see me...what a fucking whore. I am just soooo excited. This will be my first pride event since I came out. Yeah, so I will leave it at that - SUPA EXCITED!

Sadly, I will be moving out of 61 Cornell at the end of the month and begin my new residence in the ROC (yes! I am staying here!) with a friend. I will miss this house, the people in this house, and the location of this house (haha) so much words cannot describe it. If you know me then you know my love for this house. I don't want to leave it! Even though I live in what people consider the "city" and it has its fair share of violence...I would choose no other place to live...thats if I had a choice.


Now I am off to run my ass off (hopefully!). Stay safe and have fun people...it's the summer! Enjoy life.

Jon xoxo

It's been awhile since I have plast written. A multitude of things have been going on in my life that had to be dealt with before this. It's official: Dan and I are done. In the end it just came down to really poor timing for the both of us. It sucks but he did what he had to do and I respect him for it. I will miss him though. He brought things out in me that I didn't think I had. I'm thankful for that.


Anyway! I (hopefully) just completed my last series of medical evals for the PC...after they drew blood for the wrong test and I had to go a random clinic. Talk about annoying to the max.

The past two nights I have been one hot mess aka a total shit show...so if you saw me any of those nights and I offended you in some way, please forgive me! I wasn't going to drink much last night b.c Thursday was an experience that I clearly do not remember but since I was going through post-break up shock coupled with Leslie insisting on doing a "power hour"...did I really have a choice?! All I remember about last night was the song "shake that ass bitches, let me see what you got" and there I was shakin away with some woman I can only relate to a crack hoe...but a really nice crack hoe nontheless! Good times!

So now I am in Amsterdam waiting for my sister to come home from Utica so we can go get some dinner together...this will be the first time that we will be going to dinner alone and I'm really excited since I havent really talked to her much recently. But tonight I am going to see Dave in Albany!! I am super pumped! I miss him a lot and lets face it people when we both get together it is like the dynamic duo...throw in his roomate Brittany and the three amigos go to town...!

Have a good day everyone!
Jon

Waiting.

This past week or two has been one hell of a ride. So much has gone on...but I wont bore you with all the details. I have been spending a lot of time with Dan which is awesome...!! So far so good. Of course that was until the convo regarding me, the PC, and him came along this morning. I'm not going into it but we'll see what happens. I like him a lot, he likes me....everything's going great in our relationship but it's for that very reason that we may be thrown off. Only time will tell and now I'm just waiting to hear what Danny-boy is thinking. The wait is killing me..........


This whole application process regarding the PC is totally awful...I wish no one has as bad of an experience as I have had so far with it. You have to get many tests and exams done on you and then all you do is wait. And wait you will...you wait until they send you back a form telling you what you forgot to include....half the time what they said wasn't included in the first packet, actually was. Such is the case in my instance. Now for their obvious folly I'm guessing this will set me back until a post-September departure.

You know, they ask in your PC interview if your involved with anyone at the time and then they go on to tell you that it's advisable that you don't get involved with anyone between now and the time you leave. What is that like 9 months?!!? Thats really difficult! Well at the time I was as single as they come...and then I got involved. It sucks what this whole waiting game can do to you and the people around you.

Sorry to rant again, but thats a gist of the going-on's in my life at the moment. Have a good day!

- Jon (still waiting...)

Crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy

These last few days have been crazzzzzzyyyy. So much has happened! My life changes so fast I can barely keep up with it, let alone my poor friends. So after going to the Drag bootcamp last Wednesday with Dan I slept through my alarm and missed 1.5 hours of work and of course to my dismay my boss found out and asked me what was up and I had to tell a white lie (the power on the block went out). Thursday was just ac crazy b.c even though I had to open the next day I still went out with Dan. It was so late by the time we got back (they turned on the lights even before we left) I had to go to work in 2 hours...I pulled an all-nighter came back showered and went to work. After work I took a 4 hour nap and went to the East End Fest. What a horrible experience. Usually I am a huge optimist about this stuff but when I have to wait 30 minutes to get a 5 dollar beer in a 90 degree bar I am not all too enthused. Dan, Orlinda, Jen Lindsey and myself went to O'calls and then to LUX. It was my first time there and I absolutely loved it....Jen and Dan popped my LUX cherry, lucky them!! haha. Can anyone say Crackhead?!?!?!

That night is when I decided that I loved being in the ROC too much to move back to Amsterdam...even if it is for 2 months. I simply don't want to move somewhere where I am going to feel like the best thing to do is slit my wrists and poke out my eyeballs. My life is not in Amsterdam anymore. I know Dave and Ang will not be pleased (and I wish that they could live here!) but I have to do what is best for me....and that does NOT include me living in Amsterdam watching TV on a Saturday night.

So the search is on. I posted an ad on craigslist.org and have gotten back some really cool responses. Basically I have a choice between a woman ("Karen") and her cat "Pookie," a french foreign exchange student and his gf, or a house with 3 other guys....I'm leaning toward the Karen or the Frenchie. We'll see...an adventure, I'm sure, is sure to follow and I'm super excited for it.

Dan and I went to dinner at Country Sweet on Monroe and anyone who knows the city knows that it is rare to see two white boys in there despite it being 6:30 pm. PS - the food is absolutely amazing...everyone has to try it!! Saturday night Dan and I went to the T-shirt opening/soirée at Thread, this really awesome "one-of-a-kind" clothing store. Super expensive but super cool nonetheless. After having a few beers and some champagne we decided to go to Two89. If anyone doesn't know, this is the new and much improved Jungle. Despite this place doing a total 18- and going from dive to hipster hang, it still flooded my mind with memories from my freshmen and sophomore year. It was our bar...and by that I mean Nazareth's!! So many AWESOME memories that I will NEVER forget, ever! **sigh** Soon after we went to TiLT and I met up with Liz N. and her gf, Laura A., it was so awesome to see her again...I miss her! All in all it was a great night and the two drunk ladies we encountered on our travels was awesome. Number 1 was some woman asking to buy our belts b.c her friends husband didnt have one and apparenly needed one. She then proceeded to ask us if we were gay. Of course we answere truthfully...bad idea. As soon as she heard this she kept going on and on how she loved gay men and she clutched us as if we were her new best friends. We politely said goodbye and started to walk away, at teh same time this crazed woman is screaming at us telling us she loves us!! HOLLA. Drunk woman number 2 was apparently from Miami and "hated" it here b.c she drank by herself and knew no one. After just barely helping her over a chain rope she pestered us for a ride to her house. It wasnt far so we gave her one...she nearly puked. I would have been so pissed if she had done that. Thankfully for us and for her she didnt.

Well I just had to get that all out and document the crazy times that went on these past few days. I hope everyone has had a good weekend! BTW, the pic posted is the first one of Dan and I...presh, we know!

Jon