The Ides of June

It is highly unlikely for a soothsayer to bear me bad news. For starters it is not like I am a menace to the republic; I govern only in my world!

But lets for a moment consider, for the sake of creative freedom that the wheels of radical change have been set in motion in recent months…

For one I think I am finally learning to fully let go… and be spontaneous about my plans… Now before anyone says that I am still “RETENTIVE” when it comes to planning let me say in my defence that I do that in order to avoid falling into a monotonous routine and neglect my friends! With that out of the way… Spontaneity… very important indeed or it could be that I am still riding the high from this weekend… I was definitely not expecting for Yann’s Saturday bday brunch to turn out to be a weekend outing!

It was also a good weekend to consider how gender roles work… Have you ever thought like a man, felt like a woman or vice-versa?

I love bread. There is something comforting about the smell of warm bread coming out of the oven… and yet I quit bread… For the most part; I eat it socially! Much to my surprise I am not the only one! During a recent breakfast lunch a couple of guys and I started talking and they pretty much concurred! And that is not all… they’ve opted for less caloric drinks… Bye bye beer. Gin tonic anyone?

Who would have thought straight guys would swear off bear for the sake of their physique? Men are vain just as much as women can be… granted not all of them but then not all women are vain either! Following the same line of argumentation women can be as lusty and avidly enthusiastic about casual sex as men…

Doubtfully this is an original line of thinking, nor is it inspired by the ‘metrosexuals’ in my life. In fact most of my friends still associate the noun with “girliness” to ever consider that an adjective that describes them.
Two points to make on this subject. First that it is biased if not unfair to negate men (those who want to exercise it) the right to a bit of grooming… Second, given the amount of time and effort most of us women put into looking good, is it not only natural that men reciprocate? There is NOTHING wrong with exfoliating!
Truth be, told the Venus-Mars dichotomy was never really my cup of tea!

But I digress, if men can “feel like women” about their bodies and women can “think like men” about sex like men, then maybe we are not so different from each other in the end?

Recently I’ve found myself liking this guy… quite a bit actually which is perhaps unwise given that we met went straight into an alcohol induced horizontal mode…
I don’t know that it’s that he is one of the few guys I know to admit liking ABBA or that he impressed me with an incredible well executed and cooked four-course dinner – which resulted in me having performance anxiety when it was my turn to cook! Then there is the fact that he can keep up and takes the initiative in the morning... very important indeed!

In any case, I just cancelled brunch with a girlfriend which is not something I do. But if he picked up the cue to we should perhaps “diversify our portfolio to include non-horizontal activities and spread the risk”… then I don't see why I would be difficult about it!

Dionysos sponsored the Ides of May which have brought about some (at least initially) welcomed news these Ides of June… Let's just hope there is no Brutus in the picture!