UltraFun!

Today I actually spent most of my workday working. Perhaps it’s because I was rejuvenated after my weekend away. Perhaps it’s because it was embarrassing to tell my old college friends that I spend much of my workday surfing the Web. Perhaps it’s because my new assignment is more streamlined and less odious and onerous. Or perhaps it’s because I have a tighter deadline on this assignment. I’ve always seemed to work better under pressure.

After work I met up with the always erudite and charming Sparky for dinner. I waited for him outside Café Rafaella on Seventh Avenue, alternately reading The Fellowship of the Ring and looking up from my book at all the eye candy walking in and out of the New York Sports Club across the street or strolling past me on the sidewalk.

Sparky and I had a nice, long, rambling meal — we sat at a sidewalk table, ate, talked, watched the world go by, felt a smattering of raindrops. Talked about the latest news of the blogging world, as bloggers are wont to do, as well as myriad other topics. From there we wandered around the West Village, almost all the way to the Hudson River and back again. We stopped off at Creative Visions on Hudson Street and looked through some soft-core gay male erotic art books, one of which had a photo of one half of a well-known romantic blogging N’awlins couple. Lucky guys, those two are.

All in all, Sparky and I had a nice, intelligent evening. And it was refreshing to socialize on a weeknight for a change. I’m trying to get out of the rut I’d lately been stuck in, and I seem to be successful so far. Thanks to you, Sparky!

As for tomorrow night, it’s a night on the town with Bryan. I think we’re gonna paint the town pink!