Ok... so here goes...

I am 19 goin on 20 this november. i live in sunny (hot) florida. I've recently discovered that you never really appreciate the air conditioning until you've moved boxes and furniture up 4 flights of stairs in the middle of a florida summer day.

I have just moved out of my parents' house for the second time. The first time I moved out it was with some guy I knew from work. He moved out and forgot to let me know. Plus he was always allowing people to come in and out whenever they pleased and the place was a shithole. It was not fun. So my mother bailed me out and I paid her back. This time, I moved in with my boyfriend. Ok ok I know what everyone is gonna say... "Well what happens if you break up?" And you know what? We did break up about two weeks ago. You know what's changed? Almost nothing. We're still friends and we're still roommates. I get my own room and he took the living room. We also have another roommate named Kirk. He is 22. I know it sounds strange, but I never thought that I would find myself living with two gay men as roommates.

As for me, I'm openly gay. It's not one of those I'll shout it loud things, but I won't hide it. I'm not ashamed of who I am.

I work for an Italian restaurant... some of you may know of it. Fazoli's. It's like a fast food sit down casual type of thing. I am an associate trainer and I peeked at the scores for the recent evaluations (which is actually illegal but shhh) and I got the highest score for associates, so hopefully I will have a raise soon. Managers have a separate evaluation. I was in line to become a manager, but it was too rushed for me and I have to focus on school. I have been going to school for all of two terms now. I signed up for classes during the fall but withdrew. Then I signed up for World Religions and Social Science 1 for spring term. I failed Social Science because I didn't ever go to class. I passed World Religions with a B. So now it's summer term and I'm taking Social Science at night so I don't lose my scholarship.

As far as spirituality, that is it. I am a spiritualist. I believe that there is a force (or forces) at work that govern the natural flow of things. I don't believe in church or religion. As far as politics goes, I am neither a democrat or a republican or any political party for that matter. I have some views about gay rights and civil rights and foreign relations, but I am not an activist.

I met Lance when I first got online about 4 years ago on AOHell. I met him in the youth chats and then started talking to him a lot. My parents didn't like the idea of it, so they emailed him and asked him to stop talking to me. So he would email my best friend Kassia, who is like a sister to me, and say hi that way. Then a lot of things happened in my life and I didn't talk to him until earlier this year. He told me about this message board and I started posting. Since then I've made a couple of really good friends. Lance introduced me to Eddi. Eddi introduced me to Eddie (Bester). And then I just started putting everyone's email addresses into msn messenger. I've talked to a couple people on there.

Anyway, I'm sure I've talked too much. Parting is such sweet and sour sauce, but alas I must go. I have a project due on monday that I haven't started on yet.

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