May. 11th, 2008 09:41 pm
Together again for the first time
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muckefuckSaturday (when it was sunny and beautiful) I was supposed to go walking with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuore_felice34, but he eventually got in touch to tell me we'd have to postpone until the next day (when it was rainy, windswept, and generally awful). Suddenly free of plans, I remembered old college friend Wu Wei Woman and thought a call might be in order to reassure her that I hadn't flaked out on her.
I caught her just when she was looking for a break from some work she was doing at home, so when I mentioned how my walk-in-the-park plans had fallen through, she thought it sounded like a great idea. After much breathless brainstorming, we settled on a plan: She would swing by and cart me off to Evanston where we would grab calamari from Davis Street Fishmarket and eat it at Merrick Rose Garden just west of downtown. Then we could go out for an evening stroll.
With one or two modifications (it was too chilly for her to eat outside after all) and extensions, that was the plan we followed. By the time we made it to E-town, we had a chunk of the "Where are they now?" conversation out of the way. Between bites of squid, we covered her disastrous "starter marriage" and non-relationship with her "birth family". So by the time we were strolling beneath the elms in the post-twilight, it was time to plunge into metaphysics.
It all went quite swimmingly. We found that our U of C education has supplied us with an theoretical apparatus for comparing our respective paradigms within a meta-framework, allowing us to respectfully compare views on angels, the afterlife, and the astral plane without it ever getting messy. I also found, to my immense pleasure, how tremendously we had each grown in confidence since the confused days of our second year in school together. (I mean, duh, right? But a concrete reminder never hurts.)
Even by the third or fourth hour, we realised there was still oodles of talk left, so we sought out Café Ennui on Sheridan. This gave us time and space to compare current romantic relationships, career paths, and beliefs on how life should be lived. Lot of common ground there. It's probably all for the best that they closed unexpectedly early and turfed us out shortly after 10 p.m. "Do you want to find another teahouse or should we call it a day and do it again soon?" Emphatic "yes" to option #2!
Now to go looking for someone of those people we talked about...
cuore_felice34, but he eventually got in touch to tell me we'd have to postpone until the next day (when it was rainy, windswept, and generally awful). Suddenly free of plans, I remembered old college friend Wu Wei Woman and thought a call might be in order to reassure her that I hadn't flaked out on her.I caught her just when she was looking for a break from some work she was doing at home, so when I mentioned how my walk-in-the-park plans had fallen through, she thought it sounded like a great idea. After much breathless brainstorming, we settled on a plan: She would swing by and cart me off to Evanston where we would grab calamari from Davis Street Fishmarket and eat it at Merrick Rose Garden just west of downtown. Then we could go out for an evening stroll.
With one or two modifications (it was too chilly for her to eat outside after all) and extensions, that was the plan we followed. By the time we made it to E-town, we had a chunk of the "Where are they now?" conversation out of the way. Between bites of squid, we covered her disastrous "starter marriage" and non-relationship with her "birth family". So by the time we were strolling beneath the elms in the post-twilight, it was time to plunge into metaphysics.
It all went quite swimmingly. We found that our U of C education has supplied us with an theoretical apparatus for comparing our respective paradigms within a meta-framework, allowing us to respectfully compare views on angels, the afterlife, and the astral plane without it ever getting messy. I also found, to my immense pleasure, how tremendously we had each grown in confidence since the confused days of our second year in school together. (I mean, duh, right? But a concrete reminder never hurts.)
Even by the third or fourth hour, we realised there was still oodles of talk left, so we sought out Café Ennui on Sheridan. This gave us time and space to compare current romantic relationships, career paths, and beliefs on how life should be lived. Lot of common ground there. It's probably all for the best that they closed unexpectedly early and turfed us out shortly after 10 p.m. "Do you want to find another teahouse or should we call it a day and do it again soon?" Emphatic "yes" to option #2!
Now to go looking for someone of those people we talked about...