they might be giants

on meeting an old friend for a drink....

he looks fashionable...he shows me his d & g kicks -courtesy of one of his students whose husband is the "dr. ruth of instanbul"...he smokes one of my parliaments....and we talk about the past 10 years.

funny how my parliaments bring out the smoker in so many non-smoking men i know!

we talk about dating men in instanbul...hell, asia too...and it is a nightmare...my friend reports. however, i still want to crash his couch anyway!

the night goes on and i see people who look so young...wait...i am getting older...oh! my friend announces "skinny jeans!" whenever he sees a male wearing a pair...my friend admits that he forgets that "people can understand english" here and we laugh as the male in the skinny jeans looks at us.

i ask him his opinion of the most trying part about living abroad...and he reports that "it is the little shit that breaks you"...isn't that the way of it!?

still...i ponder a ticket to instanbul before august...