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getting busy in my life then. And when I received a couple erotic stories
he'd wrote, I was fast with my response. I didn't have time to think about
anybody's writing but my own. A pitfall in relationships between writers.
I thought the stories had a lot of problems as erotica and gave them a
straightforward critique. Too much blow by blow sex. Good erotica is
seduction that leaps off the page and makes you beg for it. A long chase
with a small, but sweet, reward. Desire is desire of desire. A Lacanian
economy. I felt there was more challenge in him so I got theoretical. I
wanted to see what fired up his synapses. Try dancing to another kind of
music. But he retreated. Then I didn't hear back from him. I was a bit
dissapointed because I figured he had a few curve balls to wing back at
me. Perhaps he'd been upset by my criticism or the theoretical interests I
disclosed. Ah well, you win some you lose some, I thought. But he returned
to my thoughts as February neared, and I had a feeling I'd hear from him
when his engagement got closer.
And I did. He sent a brief email to tell me of his visit and give a brief but illuminating explanation of his dissapearance. It turned out he had met a strange woman who proved a bad match. The strange woman was either followed or preceded by some other, equally, convoluted romantic situation involving an unresolved relationship with his ex a mutual friend (I think). The explanation made sense and felt a bit familiar. My own romantic world had been just as unusual as his and for many of the same reasons: both of us had just come out of 3 and 4 year relationships and were in the process of rediscovering ourselves and other people. The timing of his visit couldn't have been any better in terms of exploring our feelings about meeting new people ('new' meaning post-ex). His message: did I still want to meet? My response: Damn straight. Well, not quite. It was damn straight followed by a paragraph of my schedule.
Things were very busy for me that week. Yoga, school and social engagements had me booked to the tits. And then, the talk show! My first, and hopefully not my last, time doing so. But it looked like there was a small window of opportunity for he and I to meet on Wednesday night. One thing I knew for sure: I wasn't going to miss meeting him. There was just this feeling. Something.
In truth: the TV show was pretty much the only thing on my mind days before our meeting. It shot the night before. So although I was excited about seeing him, I was still trying to process the experience of being on the show. Additionally, I would be meeting him after my weekly injection of intellectual adrenaline administered by a professor I'd been gaga over for the past year. A brilliant man with one of the most formidable minds I've ever encountered. And cute! This matters, because said Prof. and his mind-blowing lectures would be pretty hard to top. And I'd missed yoga. Stress and thinking predominated my being. And it would be hard for anybody, no matter how special, to grab my attention so forcefully as television shows and genius minds. Until the collision of our energies. Interstellar metaphors. PMS?
I was having a tough time of Toronto. I was there for a video games talk; I didn't know anyone. I searched the Salon/Nerve personals for Toronto and found "hitachi_girl." As her name suggests, her profile exuded independent womanhood - auto-eroticism. Her slightly standoffish attitude attracted me - we corresponded, sharing some erotica writings and criticism. Actually, after she emailed me some critiques of my erotic writing, I didn't write back until just before I was leaving.
Our correspondence was solid - it wasn't too horny or too difficult, just some chatting. I mentioned where I was headed and she let on some bias against the priviledged school; she called it Marxism. Later she sent me a story about going to Hollywood and meeting some stars - I was curious about the intersection of LA celebrity watching and Karl Marx. For a change, I didn't share my URL, so unlike some of the women I meet, she had no chance to investigate my personal history - only my emailed erotica samples.
Surprisingly she took up communication readily after the lapse. We arranged to meet at my hotel, the Yorkville Howard Johnson, my last night at 8.30pm.
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