abraham lincoln
Sometimes something comes over Plan C, I don’t know what to call it, and he just has to talk about Lincoln.
It’s really bizarre.
And boring.
I’m sure — nay, I know — there are worse habits. I know, because Performer had lots of worse ones, as did my ex. This is really benign, [...]
BEFORE
Plan C gets fixated on what to call my mother. Her name is also Mimi, and everyone calls us Big M and Little M. Yeah, that’s the way it’s been all my life.
Plan C felt he should call her Mrs. —— on a first meeting..
Over email, she writes that she prefers [...]
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Phase 1: Bantery emails
mid-evening, 5 February, ‘Super Tuesday’
Plan C’s introductory emails are full of romantic compliments (‘I am looking at a pretty woman’, ‘Such a pic. Pretty for sure’) but not sexual. His [...]
A year ago today, Sunday 18 February 2007, Sexagenarian and the City was born.
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Late on Saturday 17 February, I was sitting in a dark bar on Houston Street with my friend Belinda, complaining (as usual that season) about my dismal social life.
‘You should have a blog and [...]
He played this Linda Ronstadt song into my cell phone. The music sounded all tinny and I couldn’t understand the lyrics, so I looked them up. I’ll paste them in below. And btw Happy Valentine’s Day, readers …. the first one I’ve had someone worth feeling valentine-y about since, oh, well, [...]
4:20 pm EST Tuesday 12 February 2008
1) I take my profile down from JDate.
2) I look for Plan C’s, so I can print it out to have, and it is gone already.
3) I receive a response from SDF, in his usual laidback tone, thanking me for my honesty, saying no to Saturday (he’ll babysit [...]
The ‘AFTER’ section of the date-with-plan-c post has been completely revised and re-posted as of 9:11 pm EST Monday 11 February. So if you’ve already read it in the old version, please, now, read the new one. Thanks. Mimi
BEFORE
1:30 a.m. Sunday 10 February
As of Friday night, Plan C was sounding, if not infatuated, then at least fixated on me. Never having met me, having spoken to me twice on the phone, he was confident that I was — well, he didn’t use the phrase The One, but he made clear that [...]
I think I’ve just had a breakthrough of some kind.
This is a ‘framed’ post: first I’m going to print the long (sorry) post I wrote yesterday early evening. Then I’m going to add a few comments after it. So as you read, keep it in mind that I’ve already [...]
To my readers: blogs mentioned in Sugasm are required to post the contents for that week. I haven’t done this the right way (temporary technical ignorance), but the entire post is a link that will take you to another site with the links. Mimi
Sugasm #117
The best of this week’s blogs [...]
