Re: What Worries Me More is Me
Oh hello, cliffhanger from the last post. No time like the present to address the statement “What worries me more is me,” since Megs is driving, NPR is humming quietly and I’ve got this laptop in my lap. Megs and I have been doing some talking — shock of shocks, I know — and she […]
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Arkansas
In my last post, I mentioned the fact that what worried me most about going out with a polyamorous man was simply the logistics of polyamory. Everything else was merely a first date in the purest sense of the term. Meet. Eat. Walk. The usual. And I guess what I have to say is this: […]
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Yep. You’re Not Going to Be Alone
A few nights ago I may or may not have melted down. Like butter in a microwave, one second I was merely in the state of softening and the next — WHOOSH — I was a puddle. It was post date, and while the date itself was fine (for all intents and purposes), all I […]
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Polyamory Pre-Thoughts
There’s little like a good old-fashioned stereotype staring me in the face to make me say to myself, Holy critical thinking, let’s see what truth there is to that. When a polyamorous man in Arkansas agreed to a first date, how could I decline? Here’s a quick definition guide so we’re all on the same page: […]
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The Current State of Why
Questions of what I’m hoping to accomplish by dating around the states run rampant, from people we meet to strangers online. What’s funny is how my responses change day to day, how every moment I have a different opinion on this project – on why I left everything behind (and why Megs did too) to […]
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Oklahoma
It doesn’t get more Americana than the State Fair in Oklahoma. Coincidentally, it doesn’t get any harder to find a parking spot than the exact same place. Megs and I were being ourselves and running a touch behind schedule when we left our hotel and started zipping toward the fairgrounds. I’d balked on smearing makeup […]
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Kissing (Someone Else’s) Cousin
Come Kansas, it’d been awhile since Megan and I had seen “ethnic” food of any kind. Right, I know, we saw it in Wisconsin, but just trust me on this: when you’re from San Francisco, not having daily access to a burrito is bizarre.* So when Meg wanted to set me up with her cousin, […]
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Your Actions Speak Just As Loud As Your Words
Post-date etiquette on the road is a tad different than when your physical location is static for a significant period of time, but I think the same general concepts apply. A text two minutes after you leave each other’s presence says I had an exceptionally good time or possibly Wait, come back and let’s make […]
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Nebraska
You know how Robert Frost wrote “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both,” right? Sometimes I feel like he wrote that just to taunt the rest of us into indeed attempting to find a way to take both paths — or at least, experiencing both of them. So […]
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Okkervil River’s “Kansas City.”
Music we can’t get enough of: Okkervil River’s “Kansas City.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVcU1TdqNE
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