(First read post from a wedding weekend, part 1 , if you haven’t yet.)
the ceremony
4 p.m. Saturday 12 July
It’s a Protestant ceremony, and everything goes beautifully. Plan C looks at his watch at the end and says with satisfaction, ‘Twenty-eight minutes. Perfect. No wedding should last more than half an hour.’
He [...]
saturday 12 july, 6:50 a.m. mountain time
I’m sitting on the steps of the Marriott, drinking a skim latte grande with my trademark ten sugars and feeling the fresh, beautiful morning mountain air. My body, which only recently returned to New York time from European time, is still on New York time.
Plan C is playing [...]
catalogue of his stuff in my apartment
– 1 Joseph Bank shirt, size L, checked [pale blue, pale yellow]
– 1 pair khakis ( “dockers” ), W38 L29
– 1 LLBean nightshirt, size L, plaid [dark grey, light grey, red]
– 1 striped [white, light brown, light blue] 100% cotton robe, Club Room, size L
– 1 pair [...]
the euro
Are you aware of how far the dollar has fallen against the euro?
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Plan C is quite aware.
He was aware of the fall of the dollar against the euro about seventeen hours a day.
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I had to place a [...]
7 p.m. friday 30 may. we are there to be seen
Of course we are there to be seen; why else would Plan C and I set foot out of doors? Why else does anyone ever go out? And when you’re going to an AMC multiplex an hour from Manhattan, you know the [...]
So Mimi, you’re still together with this wonderful man?
Yup. It’s been three months and two days. We met on February 10th.
Of course, you were also together with Performer for that long….
That’s true. I was.
How can you tell this relationship is better?
Oh god. Given my background — a terrible father, [...]
Saturday 19 April 2008
MY SALAD WAS A MISTAKE
Well, someone else was doing the brisket, which would have carrots and potatoes, and someone else all the symbolic foods, and someone else the dessert, so I said I’d do a salad. Not that anyone but me wanted one all that badly, but I thought [...]
SEX WITH ANIMALS
Plan C often likes to imagine how shocked our children would be if they knew what we were doing, e.g. spontaneously deciding to have oral sex on the sofa at 11 in the morning.
I also like to try to shock Plan C, arguing (as I did that morning) that anything [...]
I wanted to do a complete and detailed interview, but Plan C clams up at the thought that what he says will be published, however anonymously. So I’ll offer here the snippets of conversation I was able to record. He’s so much better off the page……….
And oh yes, please note:
1) I am entirely [...]
The time: c. 11 pm Saturday 29 March
The place: my apartment
The actors: Plan C, me
The event: Plan C is crying.
And why is he crying?
Because D3 (one of my daughters) is ‘so beautiful.’
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Have I mentioned that Plan C is very emotional? and sentimental?
Well, he [...]
