hi loves! it's been a while. things have been busy. i've been busy with work and social stuff and was sick for a while. but i went to the doctor and the pharmacy and i'm feeling better. on saturday i went to a major city that i don't normally go to and syd and i drank coffee in the sun at a beautiful bookstore / coffee shop and i felt full of love. we had dinner and went to book club and it was just lovely. i can feel myself looking at syd with so much adoration in my eyes. if we weren't the way we were it might slip out of the platonic, so thank g-d we're ourselves.
my close friend's girlfriend was here last week and it was a little odd. she came over to my place twice -- once for drinks and once for dinner. i actually liked her, she was nice and had a bit of an edge to her, more than i was expecting. i could immediately see, upon meeting her, why he'd been flirting with me: we're not all that different, both with long brown hair and a bit of an attitude. the vibe was a little weird, understandably. they've been together for five years but i got the sense that they might not be together for much longer. i think he sees himself as too good of a man to break up with her. who knows! ultimately it's none of my business. it was interesting to talk about with my friends over drinks until midnight on friday, though, and with syd on the train on saturday.
on sunday i went on a date! with another artsy he/they with a mustache and glasses. he didn't really ask me that many questions about myself but he was cute and funny and we talked for nearly six hours straight. we drank coffee in a sunny park and talked about how cute his boss's baby was and talked about art and photography and the city we were in and lots of other things. we ate falafel by a canal and talked about languages and linguistics and i tried to identify a duck and failed. finally we got cold and went to get tea at this bar that's the sister place of the bar that they work at and they chatted with everyone in [REDACTED LANGUAGE]. the girl who was serving that night asked if i wanted them to speak in english so i could understand but i told her that no one talks to me in [REDACTED LANGUAGE] and i like it, so he said that they would just speak slower, which i was actually touched by. he walked me to my tram stop and gave me a tight hug and i hope we're going to see one another again soon. at the cafe we were talking about tattoos and he showed me most of his, including one on his ribs and hip, and i felt myself go from interested to directly attracted, because as always i love a slutty little hip tattoo.
i have no idea if he would be good to date or even just to sleep with, but i'm actually a little excited, which is lovely and much more than i've felt after a first date in a while.