i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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missed my chance to see susan, i think. :( while michael & i went to bento, she called twice; by the time i got back, we couldn't agree on a time, so maybe friday, but i am full of despair. she seemed grumpy, but she had had her computer crash 4 times on her, which would make anyone grumpy. so then michael & i went to bridgetown games. i picked up "lunch money" because i think jennifer would like to play.
i'm still waiting for doug to call back; michael's waiting for joe. i'm listening to the other veda hille album michael has other than spine, which i think i like but it's no longer in print. :P
one of my wishes came true! we got a thunderstorm! we raced upstairs to the roof but by the time we got there the storm had alrerady passed! argh! but i did get one rumble of unqualified thunder. whee! :D
john came over & finally clarified the tumultuous habeeb/john relationship. it was almost like one giant sentence; it was almost stream of consciousness; he was, dare i say, giddy. i wonder what habeeb's version of this story is. john also talked some about his timeline/history, and then john turned the self-inspective microscope on me. he asked me many, many, many questions (i work better with questions than exposition), though we didn't really approach the rob issue, which i feel is a large iceberg between us. i know john is still friends with rob & i don't want to say anything negative or emotional or condemning. i feel like i'm at a huge disadvantage w/ john in this area & it makes me uncomfortable. michael stayed mostly on the sidelines during this exchange.
later, i asked michael if he learned anything about me during john's questioning that he hadn't already known, because john asked me questions that michael never has. he said he was surprised that john & i shared similar parental abduction/swapping stories, and that he hadn't known i had lived with my grandparents for a year or so after i was born (i hadn't known that until thanksgiving, mind you), and he hadn't known i had lived in two foster homes while social services was sorting the whole custody thing out.