because every day i get an acute reminder that I LIVE in San Francisco; this is not like anywhere I have ever resided in my life

a few months ago i heard my coworker talking about her female partner. then a little later i hear she's in a big break-up with this person on 9 years; sad, right? so today when she says she's had 6 dates with somebody she really likes (based on the little i know about her last significant other) I assume that "somebody" means another girl . so i inquire about the somebody, careful not assume gender, and she says "i really like him!" she's glowing all day and even talks about sex and i'm a little uncomfortable with this:) But sex is common break room discussion material, and she's not shy or wierded out and neither are the other listeners. Apparently it's as natural as can be to date women sometimes and men other times and be smitten and sexually involved with both. Toto, this is not Kansas! Can we say paradigm shift?

in Southern us culture they're not even over interracial dating, much less homosexuality, MUCH less bisexuality, and here on the west coast anything goes. boggled. less so personally/internally than just by the STARK contrast of my peers from this time and just a year ago.