LJ tells me it's been seven weeks since I last logged in. At least this time I updated my password.



I continue to do most of my online interaction on Facebook, but it's nice to see y'all.



I'm living in Mt. Juliet, TN at the moment. Plan A has been to settle in Cookeville, whence I last journaled, but my heart's not really in it at the moment. The month of May was pretty rough for me, and June has been a hibernating time, fraught with some kind of intestinal virus, I think, and characterized mostly by recovering from May.



It would be nice to feel less depressed during the early summer, but the rhythms of my life go as they go.

This is supposed to be the direct link to my Facebook profile:



http://www.facebook.com/khrysso

Literally no idea when I last checked in to LJ. I had to use an old password, but I don't remember when I changed that on most of my other sites...



I can still be reached (at) g-mail, and I'm a pretty broadly viewable presence at Facebook.



I've been living in Cookeville, TN since Christmas Eve. My temporary housing arrangement here will come to an end in the next couple weeks, then I think I'll couch-surf here in middle TN for a week or 10 days, then I think I'll tie up some loose ends in Ohio, then I hope to be back here in Cookeville again by the beginning of June. For what, time has yet to tell.



I rarely get broadband time except at the Putnam County Library, which doesn't let me visit most of my online social networks--some auto-porn-block gate-keeps me from my blogs, even though my blogs are not porn sites. *shrug* I live in a backwater. :-P



But this seems to be the place where I'm setting down roots.



I'm glad I visited LJ today, however briefly. Good to know that certain folks are in relatively good health and/or spirits. Seems to me that it's unreasonable to ask for much more, sometimes.



Maybe I'll start visiting regularly again, you never know...



I have use of a cell phone and will continue to through June or so. If you want my number, write to me at my gee-mail address or befriend me at FB, where it's listed in my profile for my friends.

I turned 50 yesterday.



My fiftieth year was rough. I'm not sorry to see it behind me.

I've already put this out on several gay men's online social networks I belong to. Please let me know if you have any leads for me, and/or forward it (with all due discretion).



I'm a starving-but-not-lazy artist looking for a patron of the arts.



My primary media are folk music (which I pursued professionally for 10 years), non-fiction writing (which I've been doing, sometimes for money, often for my own future projects, since I was 14), poetry writing (also since age 14), and, most recently, visual art. (My strongest passion for the past few years has been collage/assemblage.)



I've been living with my best friend (think Will and Grace) for the past four years while she has dealt with impaired mobility. In recent months, she has had her knee replaced and is now much more mobile and less in need of my support, and, moreover, she has given our slumlord notice that we will be moving at the end of October.



The tricky part is that neither of us knows where we will move to. She is tied to central Ohio because of work, which just cut her back to 60% of her previous hours and salary. I have chronic but manageable cardiovascular health concerns for which I receive excellent care at a sliding-scale clinic nearby, but I am more willing to leave town than she is.



I have friends all over the country with whom I *could* couch-surf, but my major concern is space for all my stuff: artifacts of all of my artistic interests-most artists are pack rats because everything has potential artistic use-and from grad school (theology); add to that my library, my music and instruments, technical equipment (I self-publish and sometimes record), recipes for a cookbook project... I need dry, temperate space to spread out and stay spread out in and be left to my own devices.



My companion and I may continue to be housemates, but she no longer makes enough money to rent space for more than herself, so that scenario is unlikely. My circle of local friends has shrunk thanks to my travels and their moving on or changing interests, and I long ago stopped asking my family for help: favors have too many strings attached.



So what the hey-I'll put it out to the æther: I need space to manifest my art(s) with someone whose housing costs are in no way dependent on my ability to pay. I have no visible means of support, no assets, and massive school-loan debt.



I'm a conscientious and engaging housemate, emotionally low-maintenance with some formal training in conflict resolution, and more tolerant than my strident opinions might indicate at first. I describe myself as "a very silly curmudgeon."



Important: I refuse to live in a house that is smoked in. Also relevant: I don't eat the flesh of mammals and rarely eat the flesh of feathered creatures. I do eat swimming creatures, eggs, and dairy products and am pretty adventurous culinarily within those parameters.



I've lived on the edge like this for most of the years since 1992 and have learned to live on next to nothing as long as I have a roof over my head and access to good charitable medical care, so I'm not looking for a sugar daddy. (That would be silly since I'm 50 years old: I have many daddylike qualities myself.) Sexual intimacy with a gay/bi male patron is not, however, out of the question—chemistry will tell.



Though I am not currently generating money with my artistic skills, the support I need is far more passive than active. Think of me as a monk (only not celibate!) or a troubadour, and of yourself as a patron of the arts, for I am serious about living my life as an artist: I may appear something of a bum, but I'm no mere slacker.



I have no criminal history (being in default on student loan debt aside), no kids, no critters, no un-filed-for divorces. I've never done illegal/recreational drugs or even been drunk. I'm not certifiably nuts and I've had the same Social Security Number all my life. I have no unrecorded aliases, nor have I any other tricks up my sleeve. I have much to contribute to a household.



If you have any interest in discussing this proposition, please message me here at my LJ mailbox.