Friday, April 28, 2006 | by nathan

Planet….Schmanet….Janet

It’s loud where I am; The Planet in Dallas. This is where Brian’s company keeps its servers, and as he is the reigning Queen of IT for his company, he had to come down to Dallas today to fix a faulty server. Buildings full of servers, as it turns out, are deafeningly loud. Which I suspected, as the tiny (by comparison) room we have in Broadcast World at OU is crazy noisy.

So Brian sort of kidnapped me - okay, I was warned two days in advance, sure, but - and we came to D-town, which is one of my
favorite places on Earth.

I love Oklahoma CIty; really, really I do. Many of the people I love are there, I know how to get anywhere using any mode of transportation, and there is plenty to do, but Dallas is its own world. I used to hate it. For some reason, in my late teens and early 20’s, when I would come here all I saw was the horrible traffic, the smog, the sprawl, the overabundance of people who seemed to really, really love the President. As far as I was concerned, this was where people came to get tattoos, six point beer, and porn.

Then last summer we brought Dylan down here to go to Station 4 and the gay strip, and my mind began to change. On our last trip to IKEA to get stuff for the house I was like, "I could live in Dallas."

I’m afraid that I’m going to go back tomorrow and want to relocate as soon as possible. But that is not really feasible right now, which is probably a good thing, as I would like for us to be making more money before we move, if we ever do. Also, I would like to actually finish a Master’s degree for once; I can live with the fact that Yale beat me. I will not be defeated by the University of Oklahoma. Just not gonna happen.

In the meantime I can look forward to the following in Dallas:

• meals at Chipotle, Monica’s, and Cafe Brazil
• Union Jack and the rest of gay world.
• The general coolness of a lot of Dallas architecture.
• Deep Ellum
• hanging out in a hotel room with my guy later on tonight. Always fun. *wink*

As this trip was kind of last minute we are still chewing on what we would like to do tonight and this afternoon. Family dinner is tomorrow at the Flynns’, so we will be leaving in time for that. In the meantime, Dallas is our oyster, so long as Brian can get all his technological wrongness wrapped up. Which he can, ’cause he’s a badass.