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Highlights of the weekend: Meeting his best friend from his highschool, meeting some of his friends from his GSA and helping them set up their tent and decorations for selling food at the homecoming carnival, sort of having an official date (dinner and a movie!) and going to see the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Museum of North American Art. I also got to learn some more signs, and I'm slowly (emphasis on slowly) overcoming my biggest trouble with learning languages... receiving messages. I say slowly because he had to slowly fingerspell words I didn't know, and I would mirror each letter as I comitted it to memory and spelled the word in my head. I really liked meeting his friends and going to his homecoming because it threw ASL at me and forced me to get comfortable with it. I didn't use any, but I quietly observed his conversations with other people (I figured it was rude to watch conversations between people I didn't know lol) and realized that I could distinguish between most words... I don't know what said except maybe through context, such as when someone tried to engage me in conversation and he stopped them and told them that I'm hearing and can't sign yet, though according to him, I'm learning quickly, since I tried to sign as much as I possibly could with him, and learned a few more words in the process! Oh, and it was kind of funny the amount of hearing people who were signing to me. Mostly just saying, "oops sorry" and "excuse me" (a lot of families of students there), but when I first got there and registered as a guest, the RA asked me to sign the form and give them an emergency contact number... by signing to me. John told her to speak to me -- turns out she was a hearing signer. We all lol'd. Anyway, a few of the pictures we took. Finally some together! I put them in a new album of my photobucket account, and plan to use it for all future pictures of us taken by us. Picture of him under the GSA tent at the carnival, behind the football field: Picture of me under the same tent: After a few attempts of getting us together by the door, here are two. The first one was too close and the second is a bit fuzzy since my hand was shaking while pressing the button on the camera: Together in the sunset filtering through the window: I think I'll print that one out and frame it... I can't wait to see him again next month!

This is gonna be the longest two exams of my life... but totally worth it!

I'm a Panthers fan at heart (born and raised in South Florida), but I have to root for Tampa Bay since they have a real shot at anything. I'm glad my dad never became a hockey dad lol. I think the worst he got when I was playing was when I said I didn't break a sweat in the game, and he told me that I wasn't trying hard enough. I was just excited to see the other boys changing in the locker room, lol.

Maybe so, but at least the heads of our Universities are smart enough to not show up to a state budget hearing in a private helicopter and beg for money... silly PSU...

Honestly, I let him come to me. Rather than date anyone all my life, I focused on being happy and productive, and then out of the blue, he came to me. I think you should do the same. Don't get wrapped up in trying to find the right guy, rather try and get your own life straightened out first. Love is important, but it takes a backseat to survival and happiness (though it should enhance happiness, keep that in mind as well).

Our legislature thinks it's off the hook since it passed domestic partnership/civil unions.

Digging up an old thread, I know, but I wanted share a recent experience with natural body scent. As most of you know, John (rakuten06) and I met face to face about a month ago for the first time. We met at a food stand in the DC Union Station, and in the first five seconds two of my senses were blown away. The first was sight, as I was awestruck by how beautiful he is in person. The second was smell, as when he sat down at the table across from me, I caught wind of his natural body scent (no cologne!) and I could swear I was on cloud 9! It made me so much more attracted to him, even when I thought it wasn't possible to be more attracted to someone! I wish I could bottle it so I could have it always! To answer Menzo's original question from four months ago, yes natural scent is a big turn on, but I think only for those who you are truly attracted to. I am very attracted to John, as a lot more than just a lust object, and his scent was like ecstasy, however most other people, specifically ones I am not attracted to, did not turn me on with their scent. I've been turned on before by the scent of other boys who I was attracted to, but his did so much more for me since he more than just a "hot boy crush".

oo... video games...

Great, Brandon's gonna die, Eric's gonna blow up Telluride, and The Scar is preparing to take over the world... again. What's the matter Goat... thought you got away from the roasting spit too easy last time?

Another way of shortening R&J: They loved, were hated, and died.

Dude where've you been all this time? Piercings look good.

Honestly I think you're cute just as you are. If you decide to cut and dye it again, then that works well for you too. Either way, you look great!

I haven't heard the new album, but why all the St. Anger bashing? I haven't heard the whole St. Anger album but the song itself was awesome!

Why are you wearing pants? lol I'm kidding! Publicly anyway... *whistles innocently* Hehe sorry, not many "shirtless" pictures make their way here... actually none do IIRC... *shrugs*

EVEN I KNEW IT AND MY GAYDAR IS THE PROTOTYPE FROM THE STONE AGE! Yeesh!

I have a good reason for not knowing how to pump my own gas... it's illegal to do so in New Jersey, so every fuel station is full service here. I wasn't the only guy to forget to put the cap on at that station that day... when I pulled up, another guy was pulling out of the station with his fuel door open and gas cap sitting in its basket in the door (mine is tethered to the car so it was just dangling), and another customer saw it, ran to the car and tapped the window to let him know lol. I've been looking forward to our next meeting ever since I left... I can't wait! And yeah, John slapped her a couple of times LOL.

I live at home so I don't need loans... but I'm thinking about getting a place closer to school. 30 minutes isn't a bad commute but with today's gas prices, it causes problems for trying to join clubs that happen eight hours after your classes end... eh.

I wish we took more pictures, and one of us together, be here is us, individually, in front of the Bison mascot at Gallaudet.

Its the latter... *sigh* We'll be seeing each other again in the middle of October... it seems so far away...

Not so much anymore, but I do stutter when I say words with certain letters or sounds. Sometimes I'll repeat a word over and over and over again, or I'll open my mouth to say something, and then no air will make it from my lungs to my vocal chords. It's annoying, but I used to be a lot worse... I had to see a speech therapist when I was a lot younger.

My low fuel light came on soon after I left... now that I think about it, the car was probably saying, "My range is only this far, please turn around before I strand you in Maryland." I waited until I was north of Baltimore before getting gas, and spent a few minutes figuring out how to put fuel in a car... then just before hitting the interstate again I pulled over and screwed the gas gap back on... oops lol. I've also been sneezing every so often since I left, so I might be allergic to leaving lol. When I pulled out of the University I thought seriously about turning right around and going back... partly because he had to walk in the hot sun from the entrance to his dorm... not as long of a walk as, say Rutgers, but still long when the sun is beating down on you... and it had to be close to 100*F. *sigh* I can't wait to go back... this was definitely the best weekend of my life, and I've spent weekends in places like Bimini Island (Bahamas), Key Largo, Key West, Vancouver (part of a two week vacation on the west coast of the continent)... I would much rather be with John in DC or NJ than any of those places without him. We also got a bit frustrated with Ginger... she got us where we needed to go, but she tried to send into the woods, or into other on-coming traffic more than a few times... and she thought one particular restaurant was in the middle of a bunch of trees lol.

THANK YOU! *cough*natural*cough*

Why do cute boys want to dye my hair so bad??? That makes three of you so far! Stay back! Back I say! *waves index finger like a sword*

How is it compared to Firefox 2.0 and 3.0?

It was always architect or engineer. I'm in school for the latter. My official major is Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in energy systems, and Applied Physics. It's a real conversation killer hehe. Ultimately I want to work in the energy business... solar, hydrogen, geothermal, etc.