{"id":1383,"date":"2005-07-16T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2005-07-16T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T16:43:00","slug":"connection-0-of-3-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Connection 0 of 3: Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling disconnected.  Not just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/cheerfulchaotic\/31766.html\">out of proper context<\/a>, as I had been when I went to visit <lj user=spupeh> in Toronto, circa 3 or 4 years ago, but nearly lacking completely in context.  This is both new and &#8230; not.  <\/p>\n<p>The last time I haven&#8217;t been so context free since I moved to chicago the first time, and to college.  In college, there was nobody I knew.  I got excited when I spotted the scary guy who&#8217;d &#8216;hosted&#8217; me over a sleeping bag weekend, and the homo dancer dude whose floor I slept on that same trip (Lysander?).  Neither really remembered me.  I built a social life from the ground up, like most college students do.  It&#8217;s expected, most people have the same experience, and so it&#8217;s comparatively easy.  <\/p>\n<p>In chicago, the only people I knew in the area were <lj user=rsbdeadman>, <lj user=jgs>, and <lj user=chanson>.  I signed up with front runners (gay running club, with which I&#8217;d been affiliated in pittsburgh; it has chapters all over the place) and the gay swim team.  Through <lj user=inqueery>, who I met from frontrunners, I became acquainted with (and signed up with) the Chicago Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus.  I met Stephen Starkey at Motorola, and Glenn-Paul through gay.com (hey, yet another reason to swear off).  Most of the rest of my social life was either conducted through these groups, with these individuals, or with people I met quite randomly.  <\/p>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t make for the deepest of roots in chicago.  So now I&#8217;m feeling disconnected or shallowly connected.  I&#8217;m going to examine this in a series of 3 posts over the next couple days: the first devoted to family; the second devoted to friends; and the third devoted to sex and romantic relationships.  Each of them promises to be fairly lengthy.  For now, I&#8217;m off to the apple store to bitch about my iPod and my unusable cd-rw\/dvd player drive, as well as to get some blades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling disconnected. Not just out of proper context, as I had been when I went to visit in Toronto, circa 3 or 4 years ago, but nearly lacking completely in context. This is both new and &#8230; not. The last time I haven&#8217;t been so context free since I moved to chicago the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connection 0 of 3: Overview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}