You Can Always Come Home To Me

June 9, 2021 by Andrew Small No Comments

It’s been a long time coming.

I’ve been meaning to write it for ages.

But somehow I just kept putting it off.

Because it’s not really a dating post, or a humor post, or a sex post, or a poetry post even, it’s a post about me. Little old me, and what I’ve been up to and what (not who) I’ve been doing. Because admittedly, in this last year, it might have gotten a little confusing. So I’ll try to keep it as short and sweet as possible and if there’s any questions at the end…well…that’s what the comment section is for, right?

In September I started back at UBC.

I was approached by a dating website who wanted to buy (like with real money) my writing, both past and future. I thought long and hard about it and though I hated the idea of parting with my writing (not a first rights kind of deal, a complete selling of ownership type deal) I figured I’d always have more material and beggars can’t be choosers and a number of other considerations that had me agreeing. And so that’s what I did (which is why, you may or may not have noticed, many of my old blog posts disappeared). For the next 6 months or so things were peachy. I mean school was insane and my own blog pretty much fell to the way-side but I simply directed all my readers over to the dating website I had been working for to read my posts. And then sometime around the end of January-ish something happened. I had to sever ties with the site. Unfortunately, the owner and I had some very different ideas about the ethics of editing (much like the differing laws in Canada and the States) and that was that. He owned my words and I asked for my name to be removed from all content. Ties severed.

However, very close to the same time I was approached by an Editor at The Province who asked if I would like to blog for them. Ecstatic, I, of course, agreed. And that was that, I’ve been happily blogging for the Province ever since. But, I mean, there’s only so much writing about sex and dating a girl can do, especially when I was still in school at the time. So for the time being, I publish on The Province and shortly after the article goes up on my own blog, this one right here. Now of course, there’ll probably be exceptions (like say with this post, this one has no need to go on The Province’s site, and posts that contain poetry will always only go up here).

Additionally, I’ve started blogging as a #SWEXPERT for a UK dating site called Singles Warehouse, along with numerous other bloggers. And while I’m not certain how or where the relationship will progress too, like my work for The Province, it will eventually end up on my own site (this one, in case that wasn’t clear lol).

Now, here I am in early May and I’ve graduated from UBC with my 2nd BA. I have been accepted to Georgia State University, North Carolina State University, University of Massachusetts (Boston), and University of Saskatchewan, and I’m still waiting to hear back from Concordia and George Washington University.

What any of this means for the future I don’t know. Will I be moving from Vancouver in September? Can I really afford to take on the debt of an American University? What would it be like to live in Saskatoon, a place I’ve heard I would eat the boys alive, and what if there were no boys at all who wanted to be eaten? Will I take a year off, work and save as much as possible, and then reapply to schools next year (because at least now I know that getting in is a likely possibility; to be honest, I had been bracing myself for an across the board rejection)? Could I continue to write about “Dating Vancouver a Better Place, One Something at a Time” or write for The Province, if I neither lived in Vancouver, nor the province of BC? Will I spend the summer writing a book?

Who knows. I have no real answers. Yet. But I’m happy. And the future is bright. And when in doubt over where to find my writing, know that it will always come home here at Russian Mates, ready and waiting for your loving eyes with its open arms.

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