The Life and Times of Elliot Pike

This isn’t going to be the great “Where’s he been for the last two months?!?” kind of entry. But I’m going to try soon to figure out what I can write about my life. It has been eventful.

First of all, in case you are wondering with baited-breath… yes that “certain someone” is still in my life. We’ve now known each other for over 4 months, and we’ve been “boyfriends” for 2. It hasn’t been easy—in fact some of it has been a sheer living Hell—but in some ways it’s been been incredibly rewarding.

A personal confession: this is my first actual real relationship. I’ve dated and had “boyfriends” before, but only very briefly. In fact, I had this “five week curse” where every relationship would, whether by me or the other guy, get terminated at almost exactly five weeks. I’ll also say very very briefly what the “Hell” I’m referring to is: he is battling a pretty serious addiction. That’s it. I’m not going to say any more. Right now things are looking good, although the last month had been pretty rocky. But I’ve got high hopes.

Now the real reason I’m writing this blog entry: I’m just wanting to try out an Apple application that allows blog entries to be written on my computer (as opposed to using a web interface) and is supposed to interface with WordPress. We’ll see how well it works. (While I’m at it, here’s a goofy self-portrait. I’m really testing the image upload functionality.)

Update: the application sucks. That’s okay, the web interface for WordPress is pretty darned advanced. I don’t feel I’m missing much.

(Almost) nobody knows this, but there’s someone in my life who I met in strange circumstances (no, I’m not going to elaborate) who I never expected to get close to, and who may end up (hopefully by saying this I don’t jinx it) a boyfriend. At the moment I’m doing one of those “live one day at a time” things with no expectations.

As the typical romantic sap that I am, I had to take a photo of him sleeping. Here he is as I see him (through my rose-tinted glasses).

I was running through my iTunes library looking for something to play while I cleaned the apartment and crossed an old, obscure, strange album I once bought by The Residents called “Hell”. Just for fun I played what I think is the strangest song I’ve ever heard in my life, “Lizard Lady”. (M3U preview link) (I wish I could find a link so you could hear it. It’s seriously psychedelic.

It occurred to me to write here a quick blog note to ask my readers (both of you) what you think the weirdest song is you’ve ever heard. (The only other candidate I can think of right now is “Stop Eating my Brain” by Scratch Acid.)

Any candidates?

I just read a short Yahoo! News article about a recent polling result:

The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney, and no one candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner among Christian evangelicals. Such dissatisfaction underscores the volatility of the 2008 GOP nomination fight.

For some Democrats/Liberals this may be a continuation of the cheery news that the 2008 Presidential election is increasingly likely to swing Democratic. But I wonder if this news may be the harbinger of something more profound.
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I am really surprised I haven’t read anything (ever) in the news about this. But I’ve just finally come to a big realization: the September 11th attacks really had a devastating effect on the lives of New Yorkers—and I’m talking Post Traumatic Stress Disorder level effects.

In the last six years I’ve met a number of people, and I love talking to people about their careers, their lives, etc. I was talking to a guy this last weekend, just some new acquaintance that I made, and I was hearing a story about his career—about how he was working a high-paid corporate job and soon after 9/11 he left the job, became a freelancer, and his entire career after that just seemed to drift about with no direction. Now he’s trying to get back into the corporate workplace, but after being away so long, and after sort of “losing his nerve” he doesn’t think he could interview back into a similar (Vice President) position.
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