mimi the cockeyed optimist

My ‘faithful reader’ PT wrote the following comment to the previous post. I should say that I have absolutely no idea who PT is; I know nothing more about her than she (assuming PT’s gender is as represented) has revealed in her many comments since her first one on June 5, 2007. And [...]

‘you’ve got the goods’

I couldn’t decide whether to title this post with a line from Macbeth — ‘if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly’ — or a line from my very nice wise shrink — ‘You’ve got the goods.’
The line from Shakespeare would apply to what I’m planning to [...]

mene mene tekel upharsin

wednesday 16 july
Plan C phones with a lousy cold and coughs impressively.
MIMI: Some people will do anything not to have sex.
thursday 17 july
I finally play back all the messages on my landline, something I forget to do, and find one from Plan C from two days ago inquiring after my foot.
He has called twice [...]

dammerung

on the plane
Monday 23 June, about 10:30 pm eastern daylight time, somewhere over the Atlantic.
PLAN C (breaking a long silence): I wonder what Polly’s doing right now.
* * *
(Polly is his cat….)
* * *
A little later:
PLAN C (looking out over the [...]

Practicing on my thumb and other thoughts of an almost-single sexagenarian woman

friday june 20th 11:45 a.m.
I’m at Cornelia, the midtown spa to which Plan C gave me a gift certificate, the polish on my toenails drying after a pedicure.
Tears are rolling down my cheeks.
Why?
The music playing is “Let’s fall in love” (Harold Arlen) followed by “They can’t take that away from me” (Gershwin), [...]

“i’m reviewing the situation” (thinking aloud, online)

Fagin sings that in Oliver.
In a different context I, too, am ‘reviewing the situation.’
I have to remember what RS [Rolly's shrink, and mine] said Tuesday: I don’t want to see your heart broken prematurely by a man who may not break your heart in the end.
And he also advised Festina lente, make haste slowly.
* [...]

a scare & a lovers’ quarrel

Here’s how it began:
WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE
WordPress lists all the phrases people googled that land them at my blog.
Often, one of those phrases is that most cruelly ambiguous of date-goodbyes, “I’ll call you”, or its brother-phrase “I’ll be in touch,” about which I have a post. A lot of people – mostly women, [...]

an interview with mimi about plan c

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, [...]

the seder

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 [...]

an interview with plan c about his dating life

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 [...]