I made a commitment a couple months ago to get off, and stay off, gay.com and other cruisy chat net sites. I didn’t set a terminating time for this commitment. But I’d kept to it fairly well, until I went back to pittsburgh. While there, I filled much time just fooling around on gay.com, planetout, yahoo, and salon personals. I never went into chat rooms, but I checked out ads, and did use the planetout and gay.com im-style stuff.
So, the reason I quit this whole thing was that it was not returning to me anything worth what I was putting into it. And I felt I had fucked up my relationship with the GMHC, through a relationship that went fucked up places as a result of chat foo (though only a little, and the damage has been totally repaired from what I can tell). And I hold to the former point.
In fact, though, until tonight’s GMHC stuff, I found myself doing the same thing, even after getting back into town. Now, I’m feeling totally uninterested. Yay, gmhc.
I totally know what you mean! Until I moved to the Castro this summer (before I moved to Oakland) I used to spend a lot of time browsing gay web sites so I could get my necessary gay time. I never talked to anyone online though because I was too scared (unless you count The Spark, which I don’t). So yeah, I second your opinion (kind of), yay gay-time.
may I ask
What’s GMHC?
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Gay Men’s Health Collective.
It’s an all-volunteer (all gay male volunteer, in fact), free, men’s std clinic.
I’m training to be a medic. Last night, we had a training on charts, how to use them, what to write, etc.
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That’s interesting (being a medic). I have respect for people who do that job along with most jobs in the medical field for a couple of reasons. (1) I couldn’t do it. (2) It is a job helping others. I’m in the medical field too, but I’m just a Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician.
I’m going to school; I want to be an English teacher.
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I want to go to grad school for public policy training, specifically in the organization and running of NGO’s. (non governmental organizations).