(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 [...]
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 [...]
from RS (Rolly’s shrink), my new & excellent psychiatrist
I was telling him about SDF, and how SDF with his groping was not the slightest bit threatening, really just like a puppy that won’t stop jumping on you. And I quoted the apologetic note SDF sent (see the Comments).
Then I was telling him about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vignettes from my first visit to Performer’s New York apartment
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His first wedding was in June (so was mine) and his second wedding was in October (so was mine). Don’t know when his third wedding was.
The apartment was full of ghosts, mostly the ghosts of all the women [...]
So now that I have a ‘real’ man in the apartment, at least much of the time, I thought I’d run Rachel Greenwald’s statements by him, to see if her assertions of what men prefer are right.
The answer is: yes in the small issues, no in the large issues.
ME: Performer, RG says that [...]
So Mimi, how’s the new relationship going??
Very well.
Going to tell us anything about it?
Oh, gee. Once it becomes that personal, it gets harder to put it on the world wide web for, you know, everyone in the world, plus Martians, plus Jupiterians, plus all the others etc to read about.
There’s something you’re not telling [...]
Fourth post in a series about having dinner in the house of the man I’m dating: in this case the ‘house’ was Performer’s farmhouse in the rural hinterlands of a neighboring state.
THE FOOD
Because I’d just returned from 10 days in Europe where my eating patterns were disturbed, I was dying to get back to them. [...]
