I can has boyfriendz?

A few weeks ago, I started corresponding with Secret Agent Man, WINOLJ, and we've met once since then. I wasn't exactly looking for a new boyfriend (cf. "not not-looking"), but I appear to have gotten one. I'm not in love, but I'm definitely in crush. He's really smart, which of course appeals to me; he understands my social anxiety stuff; he is willing to be really patient and persistent around communication issues; and he's just goofy enough to get along with me. I like him a lot, and I even like the gentle teasing I'm getting from someotherguy and stonebender.

I know a lot of people don't like NRE (or don't even experience it), but I *love* it. My existing partners don't look less shiny -- they look *more* shiny. The whole world looks a little shinier when this particular mix of newness and Disney Chemicals(tm) kicks in. I always wished cute-poet-chick could have understood this (she wasn't doing anything wrong; she just didn't get it). I didn't feel LESS loving toward her when I was having NRE for someone else; I felt *more* loving. These days, my partners just look like the best and yummiest things on the planet, and I miss them every second I'm not with them. Not *much* different from every day, but it's got a sharper edge when I'm feeling like this.

I won't end up seeing much of Secret Agent Man in person, I'm guessing -- he is moderately far away -- but I'm looking forward to developing our friendship and just existing in the moment as the moments come.

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(An aside: I got to the "Music" slot on the previous post, and I'm not filling it in, because the song that's playing on my media player right now is, completely coincidentally, "Come Away With Me," which is the song I associate with leaving cute-poet-chick and moving in with someotherguy. It's our song, mine and someotherguy's, so it doesn't belong on that post. Y'know? :-)

An email from your imagination

Cute email from NaNoWriMo.org today:

Subject: An email from your imagination

We got this email today from your imagination. It was misaddressed to us, so we're sending it along to you. We hope it finds you well.

-----Original Message-----

Hello!

This is your imagination. I know work, school, and general craziness have been keeping us apart lately. But there's something we need to do together this November.

It's called National Novel Writing Month. For it, we'll bash out a 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days. You and me. Writing a book. Together.

I need you to sign us up. Because I don't have any arms.

http://www.NaNoWriMo.org

Love,

Your imagination




This email is being sent to you because you or someone who loves you put your email address in the "NaNoRemindMe" box of NaNoWriMo.org. This is the only email you will receive from us. Unless, of course, you sign up for National Novel Writing Month. Then you'll get dozens of great emails, including pep talks from Neil Gaiman, Julianna Baggott, Sue Grafton, Naomi Novik, Garth Nix, Deanna Raybourn, Tom Robbins, and Sara Gruen. All for free. We're a creative writing nonprofit. And we want you to write that book.