Hot, humid weather... feeling lazy and listless... didn't get out of bed today until after 1:30 p.m. ...Went to McDonald's across from Wrigley Field, sat outside on the patio the way I like to do... fed a sparrow or two... but felt gloomy, a bit depressed. It had clouded over and there was thunder and lightning, and it started to rain. At least that cooled things off, if only temporarily, and the rain wasn't heavy and fortunately was over by the time I was ready to leave... I think we caught the very edge of a thunderstorm where I was and weren't in the thick of it...
Arrived home sometime later, still feeling a bit sad and listless, but after logging onto the computer and checking e-mail, I found a pleasant surprise and brightened up quickly.
My cousin Scott confirmed me as a friend on Facebook!
I had just about given up as I'd added him over a month ago and never heard back. I assumed he was ignoring me.
But it just must be that he doesn't check it very often.
I want to send him a message, but don't really know what to say. I've only seen him once as an adult, back in 1982 at his apartment in Minneapolis.
Before that, hadn't seen him since we were little kids and were thrown together and had to play together, which we didn't do quite successfully. I suppose you could say we didn't get along. Many years later his mom, Johann, told me we were so bad we drove her to start smoking again. Perhaps she was joking about that, but I'm not so sure.
Next hurdle: I want to find out for sure if Scott's gay. I'm pretty sure he is, but I don't know absolutely... and his Facebook page, disappointingly, doesn't give me a clue one way or the other... it only says that he's "single" (he's 47 years old, born eleven months after I was).
I want to find out, but I have no idea how to broach the subject... and maybe I shouldn't.
Last time I saw him, he was sharing a one-bedroom apartment with another guy. Well, there were separate beds, but maybe that was just for show? I didn't really think anything of it at the time because they were both college students... and rents in downtown Minneapolis were pretty expensive, so maybe that's all they could afford.
But I found out later that the two of them continued living together in that apartment for six full years, which I found kind of odd if they weren't a couple. Afterward, Scott bought an old, beat-up house in the inner city somewhere and refurbished it himself. He also took up modeling for a period of time.
The last thing I heard about him was when I saw Johann at my uncle Emil's funeral back in 1992... she told us Scott had announced to her that he was never getting married... his parents, who divorced when he was little, had six marriages between them, and he did not want to repeat that experience. "You'll always be the only woman in my life," Scott told his mother.
None of this is a dead giveaway, of course... but as clues added up seem to paint a certain picture... I wish I knew for sure.
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