Wednesday, March 01, 2006


I was digging through my (extremely disorganized) filing cabinet, looking for some documents, when I came across this file folder with the fading label "nice letters."

And inside was just that, nice letters. A few notifications that I'd won some award or other, some thank you cards, but mostly, actually, love letters. Old pre-N love letters from past girlfriends and almost-girlfriends and sorta-girlfriends (A, D, M, R, etc). It was exciting to find them (who doesn't like love letters?) but I was surprised by how quickly I grew bored reading them. Maybe love is boring when you're not in it anymore. The same with infatuation.

There wasn't even anything funny enough to, say, yuk it up about in a blog.

In the end they really are just "nice letters," and the best place for them is filed away with "funny stuff" and "important documents."


# posted by Arnie : 9:56 PM
Comments:
So, will you be writing any more about N and any current emotions, or will you be more guarded now that you know the person you are dating is reading your blog?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:05 AM
 
I like how you refer to your old girlfriends by first initial, like they're secret agents in a James Bond film.

"Bond, this is D, heavy weapons specialist, M hand-to-hand expert, R computer genius, and A, our best cryptographer."

"I look forward to working under all of them."
# posted by Blogger Shaun : 9:05 PM
 
Great question, Amy! I've always heard that the "getting over it" part takes twice as long as the length of the relationship itself. Is that chick rhetoric -- or does it just not apply if you meet someone new?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 10:56 PM
 
It just now occurs to me that this blog entry was in my dream last night. Here is what I remember of it: You were teaching a class and I walked past the door of your classroom. I stopped in my tracks and considered interrupting your instruction to tell you that I was writing a "nice letter". What happened after that is a fog.

As for the comment above--I don't buy into any of those set rules for dating and love. I think its individual.
# posted by Blogger Carrie : 10:33 AM
 
I'm sure I have at least a little more to say about N. And as for my "current emotions", I don't know that I'll be any more guarded than I've been so far.
# posted by Blogger Arnie : 2:45 PM
 
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