So now that I am back up state (that's what I'm now calling Northern Minnesota...sounds so much fancier...like eat with utensils fancy!) I've been spending time with friends and family again.  Really nothing has changed but it's a little weird since I haven't seen many of them since my coming out party (there is still time to get me a gift if you forgot...preferably jerky).  Anyway things have been pretty good since coming up here.  I work a lot and I'm trying to learn Spanish by myself and those two things keep me tied up pretty much all day (your lame tied up joke here _______).  The one thing about being back is that I have learned I could never live here.  May be if I was married and had a family...then I could do it. I'd actually LOVE to live here.  The people here are just as I remembered.  The bad people really aren't all that bad.  People are laid back.  There's not as much drama....but I just couldn't do it.  It's all the little things I've come to expect in life.  I can't find good internet.  Which is really annoying when you have a Skype date with a Mexican every Sunday night at 10 pm.  It takes FOREVER to get anywhere worth going.  There's only a handful of places to go eat.  The grocery store is closed when I go to work and closed when I get home from work.  I'm convinced nobody ever is able to actually go in the library with their weird hours, and worst of all...there are very few gays.  Oh sure.  They are out there.  I've seen them.  I can hear them howl at night.  And it's not that I'm looking for a quick hookup...it's that I'd like to have A gay friend up here.  Someone under the age of 40 who hasn't sent me a picture of their penis would be preferable.  I guess I'm not really trying that hard.  All my best friends are kind of close to here anyway.  Why go out of my way to meet new friends when the people I've liked the most for my entire life are within driving distance anyway?  Plus like I said...I work a lot.  Well..I'm AT work a lot!  Haha.  Most nights I have just enough time to go home, shower, put in a movie, and fall asleep before it even gets started.