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ladyiapetus) wrote2005-01-07 08:50 pm
ladyiapetus) wrote2005-01-07 08:50 pm
How's this for a mind-blowing evening?
Was just browsing my flist* when I came across an entry from a RL friend of mine. We've known each other since high school (he was a year behind me) and ended up going to the same college. We even technically graduated in the same class ('04), since I got all of my required credits and left at the end of '03's fall semester but Monmouth only had commencement exercises in the spring. Plus we're friends with his family because his mom was a Scoutmaster and she helped my brother get his Eagle.
So anyway I read my friend's entry about his first week back at grad school. In the entry he stated about how he misses a guy that we both knew down in Monmouth (he was part of my friend's group of friends on campus, and he was also in the wind ensemble with me). And that's when I realize that my friend likes this guy in a romantic sense!
It totally floored me. I had no idea my friend was gay, let alone dating this other guy I knew from school and was sort-of friends with. And I'm not against it either; it's just that he's one of the last people I expected to be a homosexual. Especially given the times during my sophomore year at school where we went out together, which some people might think of as "dates" (hell, my best friend even thought they were).
And I'd love to reply to his entry, ask him how things are going, how long he and this other guy have been an item, etc. Except...no one in my RL circle of friends knows that I keep an LJ. They don't know about my "other identity" as Lady Iapetus, writer of fanfiction. And I'm sort of concerned about what they'll say. Especially him, since he was in one of my creative writing classes and all he's seen me write is poetry.
So, I guess you could say that I'm at a crossroads.
*Friends list, not to be confused with Franz Liszt ;)
So anyway I read my friend's entry about his first week back at grad school. In the entry he stated about how he misses a guy that we both knew down in Monmouth (he was part of my friend's group of friends on campus, and he was also in the wind ensemble with me). And that's when I realize that my friend likes this guy in a romantic sense!
It totally floored me. I had no idea my friend was gay, let alone dating this other guy I knew from school and was sort-of friends with. And I'm not against it either; it's just that he's one of the last people I expected to be a homosexual. Especially given the times during my sophomore year at school where we went out together, which some people might think of as "dates" (hell, my best friend even thought they were).
And I'd love to reply to his entry, ask him how things are going, how long he and this other guy have been an item, etc. Except...no one in my RL circle of friends knows that I keep an LJ. They don't know about my "other identity" as Lady Iapetus, writer of fanfiction. And I'm sort of concerned about what they'll say. Especially him, since he was in one of my creative writing classes and all he's seen me write is poetry.
So, I guess you could say that I'm at a crossroads.
*Friends list, not to be confused with Franz Liszt ;)