NYC

I went to the East Coast for another work trip. Took a couple of days afterward to go to Manhattan and visit my older cousin. It was cool. He was the third of my cousins that I talked to about my sexuality, and during this visit we had a pretty long discussion about it. I actually decided to open up way more than I expected to and told him all about everything going on in my life right now, including my visit to the gay bar in Chicago and my attempts to boost my T levels/sexual desire. He was extremely supportive. He really is an awesome guy. I was always closest to him out of the 3 cousins growing up. In recent years we had sort of drifted apart due to distance and his crazy work life and I had gotten closer to my youngest cousin, but now that cousin's work life is craziest of all and I find myself getting closer to the oldest one again.

Anyways, the visit was a lot of fun. We saw some live music and some live improv comedy. We ate at a Russian place, a Thai place, and Shake Shack (apparently I'm the only one who prefers In N Out, haha). We went down and saw the Occupy Wall Street protesters (that is one dense concentration of hippies). And we managed to squeeze in some quality Halo time with his two brothers back in CA.

Monday was my last full day in NYC, so I walked around the city while my cousin was at work. I checked out Chelsea and Greenwich Village, or at least the areas right around 7th Avenue. Those two areas have large concentrations of gay residents. It was the middle of a work day so not much going on. I did walk past the famous Stonewall Inn, where the gay rights movement began.

The morning after I got home I had a dream about having sex with a girl. I NEVER have sexual dreams (hello testosterone gel?) And I've never had actual sex. So it's pretty unusual to have a dream about something I've never done, with the sex that I didn't think I was particularly attracted to in that way. I don't know what brought that on, but now I'm back to checking out pictures of hot guys. Stupid brain, playing tricks on me.