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It's been a while. A lot has happened, much of it is good, some of it is simply "the way it is." The Shepard Symposium was last week and it was fantastically amazing. I went to some awesome sessions and the keynote and endnote speeches were awesome. I am really proud of my community for pulling together such a great symposium! Oh, and I get to be on the steering committee next year! My exhibit opening was the second to last event of the symposium. I was very happy with the turn out for my exhibit and really happy to see so many friends, coworkers, and students show up. After the exhibit opening some friends and coworkers ran to the neighborhood watering hole for some beer and fries (food would have taken too long) before going to the Elton John concert. There were probably about 10,000 people at the concert and Sir Elton John did his thing for about 3 hours! I didn't know a lot of the songs so I honestly got a little bored every now and then but he didn't make a dime off this concert so I figured we owe it to him to sit and listen to any song he wanted to sing. The concert made over $550,000 for the Shepard Foundation! Yay! And Elton John committed himself to do a benefit concert for the foundation every year indefinitely. He was very gracious and a good host. We had tickets for the after party. I was actually pretty much worn out but went anyway. There was WAAAYY too much alcohol there and I drank something like 4-5 glasses of wine. There were a lot of cute out of town gay boys there, including one Mr. T.R. Knight of Gray's Anatomy fame! It was a pretty good party all in all. I kind of wish I would have danced more. I felt like warmed over crap the next day. Last week I actually went out drinking 3 nights. I seem to be well on my way to being an alcoholic. Monday night I had a pitcher of beer with the MS but I think that was in my last blog. Wednesday night I had another pitcher of beer with the Czech. That actually went a lot better than I anticipated. We chatted and had a nice night. I feel like a jerk... he asked me to dinner at his house and I made an excuse and said no. Since I didn't go he invited the MS. So strange... I had coffee with the MS today. It just didn't seem to go so well. He seemed a little resentful that I was there and made some comment that indicated when he moves, whatever we have is over. He also suggested that the Czech and I would make a good couple. So weird... Anyway, this blog sucks but I'm going to post it anyway. Peace out.