I cannot believe I signed up to be in Ernie's weblog dating game. How insane could I have been this morning?! Below you can see my responses to his application questions:

1. Why do you want to be [in] this game?
Because of the irony.

2. Why SHOULD you be in this game? (As opposed to, say, your best friend who is also single.)
Because I pushed so hard for a gay version.

3. A lot of this game relies on the power of storytelling. Tell me a story about yourself. A TRUE story about yourself. (Note: This may or may not end up being weblogged, either in the game itself or in littleyellowdifferent.com .)
I was born poor, my mother used to make my shoes. I never ate anything we didn't steal. I still like the feel of ill-gotten morsels in my mouth-- just something to savour. I currently reside in Bedlam Hospital on 33rd, next to a man with fleas.
Ok, that's someone else's story.
I was born with an inkling to lead. I gravitated to the hills and found my calling healing people's pains. I ended up beaten and tied on a cross. Ok, wait, that's Jesus.
My story, my story. Who am I? I'm 31, gay, single, and living in SF. I came out at 19. Soon afterwards I was yelling at my mother about my right to have my boyfriend sleep with me in the basement. I was one of those militant homosexuals you may have heard about. Then I moved to San Francisco three years ago to become one of those nameless-faceless homosexuals you never hear about.
I currently work in the public health care field-- tuberculosis control for the state of California. *cough* Before that I was mostly doing political/legislative work here, in Washington DC, or back home in Kansas City. A lot of people assume I'm overly political, but really I don't talk about it all that much in real life. My webpage has become my outlet for those interests. I am interested in politics and making things better for society, but it's not my whole self.
My whole self is mostly a messy convergence of what it means to be a 31yo single gay man who's had a life that keeps on going without a clear understanding of time, wondering what happens next and whether I'll be interested in it when it gets here. I moved to the Bay Area because it's unbelievably gorgeous and because we can have a gay version of a weblog game. I plan to stay here for the same reasons.

4. How DID your last date go?
It went phenomenally well. We had a lengthy lunch getting to know each other while eating Korean BBQ. Then we strolled Golden Gate Park ending up at a bench in the Botanical Garden watching ducks in a pond and squirrels begging for food while holding each other against the cold and talking for hours. Lovely.