Dec 2, 2004

I'm home now. My last night in NYC was nice. I went to see 'Dame Edna' an Australian Dragqueen. The show was funny, politically very left, and spontaneous. She picked on people from the audiance and even brought them on stage to read through a short skit. Before the show Jerry came over for dinner, I ordered in some Chinese. He spent the entire time talking about his mother. How she and pretty much the rest of his family are homophobic. How he feels she is being brainwashed by the church (she is a born again Christian) This is a good reason not to come out to your parents. I would rather they not know about me, and have a healthy reationship my them, then what Jerry has. After losing Mom, it's hard to listen when people talk so badly about their mothers. I would give anything to have one more day with mine...

My flight home went really nice. I had an empty seat next to me. Apparently the woman in my row asked that they block the center seat from anyone else sitting there. On my side of the aisle was a family of 4, 4 year old girl and infant baby boy. I thought oh geeze I will be insane at the end of this 10 hour flight. Turns out, it wasn't the kids who made me nuts, it was the parents. The father...up and down up and down fiddetty get something in the bag put it back pick up baby boy put him down sit next girl go back to baby boy. He and his wife kept switching seats every 20 minutes. The wife....oy vay! She said to the husband at one point....I can't help it if my children want to sit with me and not with you. She is one of those kind of women who wants other people to think she is some damsel in distress. "I can't do anything for myself" She made the husband open a bag of chips for her!...evil woman.
The kids...angels. The daughter never complained once. The baby cried alittle bit, but I had my earphones on all the time so barely heard him.

This trip was more of a social trip rather than the cultural one I had last year. I met alot of nice people. Some I'll never see again in my life, other's I'm sure I will.