Who Says You Can't Go Home

[hector_rashbaum]

I wrote this when I got home from work this morning at 10:00 and for some reason it never posted. Neat.

Friday's gonna suck. I'm going to work, for which I leave at 5:30 and get back at 10, and then I have to get the room together and pack in time to leave the dorm to catch the 12:00 downtown to catch the 1:00ish to Boston to catch the 2:45 to White River Junction where my daddy will pick me up at 5ish to get me home around 7:30 (8, if we stop to eat, which we will, because we always do) at which point I will drop dead and wake up no sooner than Christmas if I can help it.

Reasons I am looking forward to going home:

1. Seeing the pets


2. Seeing friendseses


3. That's where Chrissy sent my present and I'm all curious


4. Distribute gifts so everyone can go "omg you are teh perfect present purchaser"

Reasons I am NOT looking forward to going home:

1. Getting my wisdom teeth out on the 29th


2. No time, space, or things to myself


3. Severely limited computer time, which translates to severely limited Chrissy time ( :( ), plus severely limited privacy during said computer time, which translates to zero chance of any writing getting done


4. I've resolved to tell the parents I'm not straight (and "not straight" is as specific as I can really get with myself right now, for some reason [part of me says "don't tell them until you can clearly define it", but that's the cowardly part]) and about Chrissy - or at least that she exists, not necessarily "I met her on the internet and she's the reason I didn't pay attention to Mom whining about how much time I was spending in North Carolina vs home over Thanksgiving break"

I say I've resolved to do that but the chances of me chickening out are extremely high. And I might just take the mildly cowardly way out and e-mail them to tell them tonight or tomorrow before I go to bed so I can give them time to process it before I have to deal with it face-to-face.

Or maybe that would ruin Christmas.

I don't know. This isn't fun.

Naptime.

Comments

[r-sambora-luvr.livejournal.com]

you are coiming into vermont? i saw white river and assumed lol i live in vermont it caught my eye...lol

[hector-rashbaum.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Home-away-from-school is in St. Albans. Dad doesn't like to make the drive all the way to Providence but he's willing to compromise and meet me in White River so I don't have to take the bus for the full six hours.

[r-sambora-luvr.livejournal.com]

wow i live about 40 mins or so away from white river in central vermont 20 mins from burlington

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

Ah, the time I've spent at the bus station in White River Junction....

It may be best to wait till after Christmas to talk to your parents about Chrissy, even if it's just the day after Christmas, just so it doesn't become The Year That Hector Ruined Christmas in the retellings of it.

Or you could do it just before you leave to have your wisdom teeth out! "Mom, dad, just in case I die during oral surgery, I wanted you to know...."

Whenever you have the talk with them, I wish you the best of luck with it. *hugs*

[hector-rashbaum.livejournal.com]

The Year Tbat Hector Ruined Christmas would make an awesome title for one of the Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas movies. Omg.

And...I've considered that. My two main problems here are that I DON'T want to fuck up Christmas...and if I have to tell them to their faces I might never do it, because I have this lovely tendency to get the perfect opportunity for telling them something and freezing up.

I'll figure it out. Or at the very least, I'll muck through it and it won't kill me.

That's the spirit.

Thanks, H *hugs*