Life: Looking Back, Looking Forward

btw---talk to NY everyday...for some weird reason, he still loves our indomitable Lashiepoo.....NV is coming for a visit next weekend....going to check some compatibility issues....

Going to a party in Helen, GA with 67 of our closets friends...and ...

OMG


He's going to meet the fam.

OMG!

WTF???

giggles

Wow.

Just got back from putting NV on the plane for home...

We had an incredible time... I saw WAY too much old naked flesh...LOL...OMG Hot tub + oldies = bad visuals forevah...giggles...Helen was a blast....We're doing it again over Spring Break. Can't wait. I'm spending Dec with NV... I ended up with three cases of beer in my trunk and like....11 lighters...I appear to be a subconscious lighter klepto...

My family really liked NV...

Got fake tatts....40 of us on our screened porch, tatting and blowing each other...OMG I wish some of you guys would go ...

Lash flies to NV in Dec....drives Italian cross country with all his stuff....shacks up in Athens....finishes ejumacation, while living in sin....family craps at 11.

Oh wow......

hey ya sweety!!!! Hope you've been well!!!

Alive, alive-oh.



However this goes, keep up your studies, but you know that and don't need my instruction.

I wish you both well and happy, and past that.

Lash, I've been well, but very busy. I don't know how you can be in school and dating like this at the same time. You must have way more energy than I!

And why the hell not, she asks herself.

Happy for you.

OMG!

I leave on the 16th of December...and plan to be conjoined in some meaningful way with this crazy Italian from that day forward.

Holy Cow.

I've had to wrestle myself into restrictive holds to prevent me from Iraqing this relationship twice in the past two months, but I remain dominant in this battle with my weaker, commitment-phobic self.

I seem to be following through with this. (giggles)

Among other news, I have to plot an opera-- and two new poems are appearing in The New Humanist this month. They are sort of whimsical hatchet jobs on my former Milton professor, ostensibly from his viewpoint....skewed by my really snotty perception of what that may be...hahaha

Barley Coyle, a Milton Guy

Missing Milton

I love ya, joeblow!!!!

I have to admit being scared out of my tree at the prospect of learning to cohabitate with a man at this stage in my life.

OMG! (But, the sex is incredible.)

Frig---she missed a comma...

I'm thinking of making an opera from Tartuffe... whaddaya think? Opera buffa, huh?

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This will be the most fun I ever had doing an assignment, I think.

JAYSUS!

Just…fantastic!

Heeeeeeee! I've returned to them twice already and can imagine I'll do so many more times.

Love them both. Seriously, Lash - what a talent.

Congratulations on all of it, you must be riding high.

<you are such a sweety, joeblow!>

Thanks so much.

Adding to my lumbering diary:

15 days til boarding plane with one way ticket to NV.

NY almost died because he didn't go to dentist...poison permeating his bloodstream, attacking his brain... They said if he'd waited a few more hours, they couldn't have saved him. He lost 26 pounds. Still can't eat even though the Hospital Nazis sent him home 2 days ago. Message: please go to dentist!

NY and NV are now friends, although wary mental circling has occurred.

Excited and scared spitless about prospect of melding life with ANYONE. Oh dear.

B in Italiano, B in Black Lit, B in Opera---all at this point---not done yet....C in geography (more like Anthropological /archaeological Native American-in-the-Georgia-area type minutia with concentration in pottery...hahaha)....we only had one test, which I had to drive in from party in Atlanta for...ugh... I am experiencing severe brain drain...Several four years I've spoken to are having the same problem.

NV is really invested...<smiles>...so supportive of some untidy little family things that are going on.... So nice to have someone to discuss things with. [Exhales] Sarà il mio bambino ogni giorno!

Benissimo!

PS---planning to drive through Albaturkey on the way back, my Albaturkey friends... Hope to spend a bit of time... Would be nice to collect some kisses from nuns and cowboys...

Went to the dentist yesterday.
Will give the fella a dentist's check-up as a Christmas gift. How romantic.

Enjoy the ride, Miss Lash.

(I kinda think it is romantic beth. A nice healthy mouth is sexy :wink: )

Is there life after retirement?
Yes Yes yes
If you spend your rest of your life
elsewhere from your birth place

Update---9 days til purported life melding---still scared.

Currently explaining this: I am a female in the north Georgia mountains circa 5000 BC... discussing the range of decisions, both significant and insignificant, that I face this morning, this season, and this year...outlining the positive and negative aspects of my life...

Then I get to contrast the settlement patterns and social organization of Middle and Late Mississippian societies... Farkle. I guess I can't complain...take home final... arg. Spending tomorrow on the 7th floor of the library, trying to tease out nuances from 5 operas. That sort of makes me laugh... I really did enjoy opera this semester.

Happily anticipating tavola with osso, D and D.



<feeling all Mary Tyler Moore-ish today...>

I hate perky.

Ha! He totally loves me.