What do these categories have in common?
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You guessed it. They’re all points of comparison between Performer and SDF.
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Masculinity.
I’m trying to understand it.
Maybe I’ll have to be an octogenarian before I do, but I hope not. I’m ready [...]
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The motown date…
…had less motown and more groping than I had anticipated; or wanted.
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In the midst of dancing with SDF in my living room, about ten or fifteen minutes after he had arrived, I was thinking to myself: how will I blog this date? [...]
Performer’s idea of fun: talking (at great length, of course) about teaching some nubile young woman how to play the Mendelssohn violin concerto.
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There’s a lot that would be more fun, such as dancing to motown.
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I’m practicing.
If you want to picture me, imagine [...]
This was my thirty-first first-date (since June ‘06). I’m going to give him a really exciting name: 31.
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My first-date with 31 was — very good.
Today began with a nightmare (see the last section of the previous post), or at least a very upsetting [...]
This weekend, 18-20 January, is dominated by plans with people I’ve never met before.
the tardy psychiatrist
This is the shrink recommended by Rolly’s shrink.
Thoughts beforehand:
I liked Rolly’s shrink [henceforth RS]; he’s the kind of man i’d like to — yeah, date; or go to for therapy. I hope the guy he [...]
ROLLY’S SHRINK: I have someone I think might be good for you: he’s very smart, very experienced, very understanding — but his office is even messier than mine.
ME: That’s not a problem. (I didn’t think Rolly’s shrink’s office looked messy; I thought it looked artsy and literary and had ‘atmosphere.’ 
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CONVERSATION IN UPTOWN BRANCH OF COMMERCE BANK AROUND NOON, THURSDAY 10 JANUARY
(as I hand the young, female teller a check and a deposit slip, she does something on a screen in front of her and then looks up at me)
TELLER: Are you sure that’s your account you’re depositing that in?
ME: [...]
TUESDAY 8 JANUARY
5:54 p.m.
I read encouraging comment on most recent post from Melissa of domesticirritation.com.
6:15
I start getting dressed for the date with RB.
6:50
I leave to walk 11 blocks to the restaurant where we’re meeting at 7:30. Leaving this early so I have time to comb my hair (which always, always, no matter what the [...]
ADVICE FOR TUESDAY EVENING’S DATE W.RB (dinner at a restaurant followed by l’apres-diner in his apartment):
Remember Roy’s Rules –
– be fun. Be the kind of woman the man wants to see again, because she’s fun.
– don’t fret / be nudgy about ‘the relationship’ and where it’s going, what it’s like, blah blah blah. [...]
Things look different in the new year.
The two men — almost, really, the two people — who knew most about my private life between late June and mid-December 2007 are gone.
THE PAST
As you know if you’ve been reading recent posts (and if not, read this one, this one , this one and this one) a [...]
