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degrees

8:15 pm EST

3 degrees WITHOUT the windchill (that is -16 c for 95% of the world's population)

that makes it feel -15 with the wind (-26 c)

In case you are wondering, yes it is painfully cold.

Like lung hurting cold, muscles contracting and not releasing, cold.

So, this weekend was the ONE weekend that the movie Milk was showing at THE art theater. So my friend Mandy invites me to go with her, and her friend Rich, and his partner. The only time the schedules meet up is 5pm on Sunday.

I got home at 8 to find frost on the inside of the living room window and a quick check of the temps shows it to be about 5 on the outside of the glass in the living room. Brrrrrrrr.

The walk from the theater to the car was horrifically cold.

So, it was quite an evening, watching scenes of SF on the movie screen, 20 years of my life roll past my mind with Sean Penn as the backdrop and I fight the tears as my first serious wave of homesick rolls over me. All the years I walked the candlelight vigils in memory of Harvey, the protests in the streets for various causes over the years, the dyke marches, the parades, the wandering around aimlessly enjoying the wonders that always present themselves, the Halloween parties before it became a nightmare, shopping in the long gone neighborhood grocery that was on Castro, hanging with Mayor Angnos at the closing of Ameilia's on Valencia, my friends, the GLBT film festivals...

back at Kia Rio I discuss with Mandy the options for meeting other lesbians around here. Church. Bars. Bowling. Online.

Grand, just grand.

At least I am right on schedule! I have a hypothesis that homesickness usually creeps up for people at about the 6 month mark and I am right there. The movie of course, did not help the issue.

So, there you have it. Freezing freakin cold and the homesick blues.

Good job I have mom to focus on over the next few weeks.

And, I have a personal dealer, university library book dealer that is... so I have a whole stack of new library books to delve into before school starts back on Jan 5. She has 6 more years before retirement, so I should be able to read good books for some time to come!

Alright, enough whining!

Hope you all have nice holidays, however you do or don't celebrate...