So, if I have allowed you to see this, it’s because you are a friend, and I consider my friends like my family. This means what I write is between you and my screen and nobody else (no prying eyes for exes, you know how it goes).
I’m moving Thursday, and everything is going pretty well for me.
I am dropping one class due to some financial aid woes, but will make up for it at a later date. Obama and McCain are coming to my school Thursday, and I hope the VP shenanigans stays far away from my campus. Somehow when the prez of Iran came, it seemed like it was less annoying (less security and the like). There’s all kinds of rules on what you can and cannot do that day. So I’ll get out of class Thursday morning, come back here, and pack to move.
I met someone amazing. I know you might want to think about passing judgment, but the only thing you should want to think is how lucky I am to find someone so incredibly special and amazing that I have time to look forward to. His name is Fabricio and he makes me feel like a human being in ways that I honestly have never felt. I have felt dead and empty for so long and he was the one who knocked sense into me the other day when I was bitching and complaining and writing nothing but negativity. He illustrates children’s books, paints, and is actually a really sweet man. I’ve learned a lot from him and hope to just keep learning. Though we’ve taken things slowly for obvious reasons, I just want to be around him. And once we are able to do that, I (though assuming nothing), expect we will be able to better each other just by being around each other. Similar philosophies, viewpoints, and relationship needs match us pretty well…and no more nagging or obnoxious neediness to hold me back. I learned a lot from my relationship with E, I really did, but it’s time for me to move on—and yeah, some might argue it was many years ago. And I was in no position to tell someone no nor push them away when I felt it. I have been doing nothing but feeling these days, which if you know me, is actually pretty fucking weird. E knows about him, and knows his name even, but I am in no position to rub him into his face. I don’t like hurting people no matter what…how did he find out about him you might ask? Bad liar I am-omission and all that. I suck at it all. His energy has done nothing but benefit me. I’ll hook up the photos I promised later to some of you…and you’ll see. He’s real…
After so many years of bad luck, I do deserve this…
My headaches aren’t any better today, but I’m trying. And that’s all I can do or say anymore.
Love to all of you, and big Shhhhhh’s too.
xoxoxo
September 10, 2008 at 3:59 am
*HUUUUUUUUUUUUUG* I’m so happy for you my baby girl. So happy for you I’m crying. And here I am loathing the fact that I don’t even have the courage to TRY to meet anyone, let alone someone. You are sooooo right, you do deserve it, sweetheart. You deserve all the happiness in the world. I love you, and I’m proud of you. Your strength continues to be an inspiration to me in all my trials and troubles…stay strong and believe baby.
September 10, 2008 at 12:29 pm
oh jho!
thanks so much…it does take time though. you should give yourself a break!
for my situation, it was just like a soggy chip that had gone too stale to work on. as my friend Tara said later on in this thread, I wrote about things being a certain way, and expected that they would have to be that way because I thought that’s the way I deserved them to be.
this is the guy who was trying to take me dancing the other day at this greek festival down by the water. I am the queen of silly dances and stupidity, so it was nice (but shocking!) to see it from someone else.
I love you, too! I am happy I can sometimes be an inspiration too! I am coming there in October for the wedding but should be able to break away from the shenanigans for a minute to have dinner if you have the time?
things are good…they really are. I have nothing to complain about.
September 10, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I have tons of vacation time and will make the time for you darling. 🙂 *HUG* Just let me know when. I’m about 15 minutes from the airport too. 😀
September 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm
fantastical.
I am coming the weekend before C Columbus day. We shall see when and how and all that as the day draws near.
yay!
September 10, 2008 at 4:58 am
Love you Francine. XO
(If you see Palin on campus, tell her I said that photo of her holding her gun on the cover of Newsweek is vaguely erotic. LMAO.)
September 10, 2008 at 12:31 pm
oh francis. She scares me…for reals.
I forgot to tell you. Guess what my first two comp lit classes have been about?
that’s right…mimesis. I feel like a fucking tool for not knowing a lot of the reference material (19th century lit and all that), but it’s ok. I’ll work it out. It is very interesting though. I need your advice on some stuff to read so I can feel smarter though.
xoxoxoxo
September 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I am so jealous that you got awesome classes on mimesis. I want to come sit in.
Ok, books:
-Plato – The Republic, especially Book X. If possible, get the edition by Grube (Hackett is the publisher I think.
-Aristotle – Poetics
–Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems by Halliwell
–Art and Illusion by E.H. Gombrich
September 10, 2008 at 2:40 pm
sexy francis. we are doing poetics this week already. book 10 we just did.
the last three I am going to sexually molest. I need to continue to read read read since I can’t take that architecture class.
September 10, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Read the Halliwell first. I am also about to start it. It basically works through Plato and Aristotle, exploring all of the problems that come up with them.
September 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm
thanks francine!!!
you rule!
xoxoxox
FRAnCis
September 10, 2008 at 6:07 am
Also, when you get a chance, I still want your thoughts on this.
XOXO
September 10, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I saw the exchange. Though I am not sure what and why she is is trying to accomplish with her aggressiveness while knowing you as well as she does (maybe trying that tough love angle?)…I feel like I have jumped on you for similar stuff in the past (acting like a dick because I felt like I was in a seat to judge, which I clearly was not). The baby=ms thing always drove me crazy though–and I honestly thought she was out of your life.
Using Eckhardt Tolle or whatever the hell his name is for inspiration is incredibly Oprah (literally actually). I read that book a long time ago…it’s interesting but not for everyone. She’s such a little fucking mommy. Let’s punch her in the face.
September 10, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I don’t ever remember you jumping on me for, like, the way I choose to express myself, which is the part about her tirade that really irked and hurt me. Like: she doesn’t get to tell me what and how to write about being sick. Sadly, it apparently didn’t occur to her that maybe I maintain the blogs so that I can put my depressed thoughts in them, which then enables me to go out into the “real” world and actually function without completely falling apart. I am just really disappointed in the way she decided to treat me. It was rather abusive, IMO.
September 10, 2008 at 2:33 pm
she’s a douchey touchey that’s for sure.
I think for this and some other reasons it is not a bad thing that you finally cut her off. She really is not good for you at all.
You need to be around people you want, and get some positivity out of it FRancis. And seriously…yes, express yourself however you see fit without succombing to other people’s opinions on how you should do it.
September 10, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Fabricio sounds like just what you need. I don’t think anyone can judge you…You have to do whatever you need to do to be happy. Just from things you’d written in the past about your relationship with E, it sounded like you’d resigned yourself to things being a certain way, that if you’re in a relationship that long, you shouldn’t have to…It just came across like you weren’t getting what you needed but you’d learned to take the little bit that you were given. Not that he’s not a nice guy- you know I like him very much…but that’s also because I wasn’t in a relationship with him. LOL. Just not the guy for YOU. Someone can be a great person and a great friend, but not the best boyfriend/match for you. That’s no one’s fault.
My hairdresser who also does hypnotherapy and stuff like that says that it isn’t “bad luck”- it’s making the same choices subconsiously over and over again until you “learn your lesson” and it hits you that you’ve been chasing people that make you feel needy (or whatever someone’s issue is) and it roots back to stuff that formed your ideas of relationships. That until you just have that epiphany, you pick the same personalities over and over. Maybe you had that epiphany.
It sounds like you’re getting things on track and you deserve real, encompassing love. Hey- sometimes timing isn’t perfect…but maybe you meeting this new guy was the jumpstart you needed to really make your life what you want it to be. Not that you need a guy to do that, but sometimes, the idea of a new love fuels the excitement for every area of your life. It electrifies you, all your senses, in a way. Good luck with him!
September 10, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Yeah…you wanna know something crazy, Tara? I have to say he matches me in ways I am clearly unaccustomed to. Even the simple shit (not exactly simple since I am kind of a big girl) like being able to carry me around and do those dramatic pick me up and spin me around kisses. I honestly think I could literally die now knowing that all of those little teenage fantasies could come true (about kissing and touching and feeling and laughing and being stupid).
That whole bird with a broken wing shit I have been stuck in too many times in the past…dudes trying to help me out of it–and once I get better they don’t want to have anything to do with me. Fabricio has told me that he doesn’t want to read my depressing morbid shit because it is boring to him, and I have so much going on for myself that being depressing is the last thing he wants to see for me.
And–as I was telling my friend Jho above…when I wrote about the crazy dancing he tried to loop me in on because he knew I was sad at the Greek festival down by the waterfront–he isn’t afraid to look stupid. Which is actually really fucking attractive. And not something I am used to since I have been the only one doing ridiculous dances for the past decade.
Electrifying…yes. And these Sag’s always seem to get to me for some reason. He’s turning 30 this year…a tiny bit younger, but has big ambitions (lookin to go to school with me for his masters next year anyhow).
And, better yet? He doesn’t want necessarily HAVE to live in NYC for the rest of his life. Even someone having similar ambitions and ideas about running off to do crazy spontaneous trips is something I am not used to either. I kinda, no I REALLY like it.
From what I can tell, we both pretty much have each other by the collar. And for me, that’s pretty fucking good right now.
September 10, 2008 at 3:31 pm
That’s how I felt about B when we met. I always had to chase the guy…I went for guys who were emotionally unavailable (Hello? Daddy issues. lol). I’d be in these relationships where they called the shots emotionally I just took what I got thinking it was good enough. Then, I met B. When I barreled and elbowed my way into his life, I expected a fight. But, instead, he simply opened the door. It was shocking…but then I was able to feel “safe” in a relationship for the first time since early high school. Sad that it took that long, but I didn’t “learn my lesson” until B. That’s not to say it was all easy…he had issues that he had to work through, but it was just “different”. Not something you can always explain.
While I’m totally in love with my husband, I’m a little jealous of teenage fantasy aspect of your new relationship. You’ve met B and at home he and I refer to him as “little and sprightly”. He CAN fit into small spaces easily though which could be helpful in an emergency I guess. There was just no “carrying over the threshold” though. 😉 Enjoy your fantasy turned reality.
It’s nice to just connect with someone without a lot of work, especially in the beginning. He’s right, it doesn’t have to be drama, doom & gloom. Let the fun, happy, and light in!
September 10, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Yeah, tell me about it. I always let everyone else call the shots. I’m kind of over it right now and need to do some of my own button pushing.
It’s not a situation where the door is just open for either of us…but it’s getting cracked more and more with every meeting I guess. He has access to this even. And hasn’t run away, which is pretty fucking fancy.
And as for carrying me over the threshhold–hahahaha. That will NEVER happen (I’ll explain that one day). But he can throw me over his shoulders (so he says–I do know he can pick me up and kiss me spinning around).
Thanks for ze well wishes. This is the first guy I have hung out with in a long long time who is not my height or shorter. Weird but true…and let teenage fantasy land rule me for a bit. It’s entirely too much fun. 😉
September 11, 2008 at 1:59 am
awesome. 🙂
September 11, 2008 at 2:07 am
uh huh.
🙂
spanks….