People watching

There was a young guy standing a few feet away from me on the metro this morning. He had dark red hair -- sort of a reddish-brown -- and was clean-shaven. He looked like he was usually a quiet personality, but he had thick red hair crawling out of his cuffs onto his wrists. Sexy.

A black woman sat nearby, reading this mornings Express. Her hair was pulled away from her face very severely, but exploded into a wonderful mass of red-tinted curls, sort of like an afro pony tail. I wanted to tell her how fabulous her hair was.

A tall black man stood by the door. He was slouching, and his head still only barely cleared the roof of the car. He had eyeglasses with thick black frames and his hair was styled in dreads. He carried a garment bag over one arm while he read from his book. He shook out a heavy steel watch that hung loosely to his wrist to check the time, stuffing the garment bag between his legs while juggling his book.

Alone at last!

kenny73 has flown the coop. He's going to spending the night with Doug M. in Arlington tonight, then visiting family in Fairfax before starting to head back to the Great White North, with stops along the way.

He and I walked from my apartment down to the Inner Harbor last night. The evening was a little damp, but mild. Not much wind, so the water was calm and the lights of the city reflected there were beautiful.

We stopped for dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen and each had the jambalaya, with some sesame ginger chicken dumplings for an appetizer.

When we returned to my apartment, he packed up everything except what he needed to get out this morning and we trundled it back to his car that he parked in the garage of the Belvedere. Shortly after that, we went to bed.

It's been fun to see him again, but my little apartment seems a lot more cramped when I have a guest for a few days. I'll be glad to be able to flop all over my bed tonight. Sleeping just on one side was something of a trial, one that I think I weathered okay.

Speaking of tonight, it's Russell's birthday, so he and I will be having dinner. I'm giving him a DVD of the Freaky Friday remake with Jamie Lee Curtis, so we'll probably end up watching that tonight too, since Enterprise is still in reruns.

Looking forward to the weekend, I'll be going to Doug's game day in DC, then probably attending the monthly HIV social, unless game day gets really interesting. Sunday is bowling, then the Baltimore HIV support group, which I've been neglecting recently. Sometime I have to do laundry as well.