rosebee | (no subject)

Happiness is getting another email from you-know-who. :)

He told me all about the walk though town and the park he took yesterday.

Happiness is also finding out that in his town, the city is removing a monument of the Ten Commandments that's currently residing in a public park. He said he didn't mind the statue as a reminder and icon of Christianity, but he did find it odd that no other religions, major or minor were equally represented. I love it that he's open minded enough to see the problem with have the single dominant religion in our society represented without equal representation of any other religions.

He also described the Anne Frank memorial that was in a different corner of the same park...

"Contrasting the two landmarks was not difficult. Where the only names visible on the stone tablets of the previous marker were those of the sculptor, this construction carried the monikers of countless contributers. "A universally respected and revered figure", they must have thought. "I will have my social standing displayed for generations to come", perhaps. This display of WWII artifacts and quotes was well-lit and well-designed. It persuaded the common passerby to discover more about the human side of conflicts of legend, and to experience the abject terror of one little girl stuck in an attic."

::happysigh::

I love the way he writes.

I told him so when he called on Saturday. He said it still didn't flow quite the way he wanted it to. I told him I thought it was wonderful, just the way it is. He said that if I was happy, then he was happy. *sappygrin*

He called again on Sunday.

Both times we talked for a little over an hour. The conversations both flew by so quickly it was hard for me to believe that so much time had already passed. At the end of our conversation on Sunday, I asked him if it'd be ok if I called him when I got home from work Monday night. He said it would.
I chickened out though. I didn't want to scare him off or seem too eager or anything.

In his email he sent last night (around 7:30pm my time), he closed with the following:

"I see you decided not to call. No worries. I find myself more elegant and poised in written form, anyway. Here's hoping your day went well, long hours and deadlines notwithstanding, of course.

I will talk to you again, soon :) "

::happysigh::

And now I get to go to the dentist. Yuck! (I have to have 2 cavities filled - double yuck!)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

*happies for you*

But you didn't call him! After you said you would! Goober girlie! *grin*

*dental vibes*

See, I didn't specifically say I was going to call. I only asked him "would it be ok if I called you after I get home from work on Monday night?", and that is not telling him I would call.

Mainly the reason I didn't call was that I've only really known him for a week. A mere 7 freakin' days. As much as I really really wanted to talk to him and hear his voice, I also don't want to push things so hard they fall apart. After a week I'm not so sure we're at the point where we should/must talk on the phone on a daily basis.

Literally, yes.

But to people who are not so literal "Can I call you at X time?" does sound like they want to, you know, call you at X time if that's cool with you.

He sounds okay with it, and that's what counts.

I just mentioned because if someone said that to me, and then didn't call I (me personally, maybe other people aren't like this) would be sort of disappointed and wonder why they changed their mind about wanting to talk to me.

He sounds okay with it

Thank goodness! I explained to him in my reply why I didn't call. He had told me in an earlier email of his that he was feeling an urge to accelerate the process of getting to know me. I told him I thought that particular feeling was now a contagious one. Plus, I said that since I'd given him such a large giant-size serving of "Rebecca's Life Story" the day before I wanted to give him time to digest it. The *last* thing I want to do is rush/push this thing and have it it end up collapsing.