Plan A, B, C, D

[garote]

Well. Presently, I'm leaning towards either Plan A or Plan B. Some additional thoughts:

Plan C: I don't think I can rally the support of my musically inclined friends to go through with this, really. In fact, I'm pretty sure there isn't a single friend of mine interested in living in the Sacramento area who doesn't live there already.

Plan D: It's easy enough to escape all these material possessions, but it's not so easy to get back into the craft I'd be leaving. Perhaps it'd be better for me to arrange my travel plans for a later date, when it's less of a one-way-ticket.

Plan B: Sure, it's boring, comparatively, but if I'm going to set myself up for future advancement, the time to buy property in Sacramento is now, and no mistake.

Plan A: Yes, Zeugma, there is a very 'temporary' atmosphere in most college environments. And I am definitely feeling too old to waste my time experimenting and fooling around ... I've already learned all I'm gonna learn from that. But here's a question for you now: Can you reccommend any better place for me to go, to locate the types of people I might care for a friendship and/or relationship with? I can't think of one. If you had no wife or friends, where would you go looking to meet them?

Comments

[ex-zeugma416.livejournal.com]

It's true -- I'd go to a college town too. Colleges are definitely the best places around for finding interesting people, at least if we're going to stay on this generic level. The interesting college atmosphere is one of the reasons Torrey and I are still here, and the main reason we're only really interested in moving to another college town, when we do move. (We would probably do this even if Torrey didn't plan to be a college teacher herself.)

There's a big difference, though, between living in a college town in order to be around the interesting people, and taking classes. Of course you know that a degree would probably be a waste of money, but there's another thing:

The college atmosphere seems to be an enormous trap for guys at loose ends. When I wrote that reply, I was worried about you, because I have seen a certain, otherwise intelligent person waste scads of time and energy pretending he was still an undergraduate, mostly in (frustrated) pursuit of sex, and (futile) clutching at his youth. It really depressed me to watch him do this over the course of a couple years, as his thirtieth year approached, when he could have been channelling his energy into some kind of future. His life had become intolerable to himself, and instead of moving towards some kind of life he could accept, he took weekends off to plunge into the college ghetto and get wasted. Not that I thought you would take this particular path, but the example was close enough to apply, and it worried me. That's all.

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[garote]

Ahhhh now I understand a lot better where you're coming from.

Yeah, the college ghetto. I saw plenty of that at UCSC. It's the aspect of college that Southern California makes films and television shows about. Fuck it. Fuck it up the ass with a big rubber dick.

Is this person you refer to anyone I might know?