Dear Diary . . . day by day

Monday, July 16th, 2001 - Sweetness of Being
(with you)

You should all know that Tim has got your back. Several times this weekend he chastised me for leaving this page almost entirely blank for 4 days. I do have a bit of trouble pulling my attention from him, and this weekend was so wonderful I was afraid to blink and miss a bit of it.
This past weekend was the first one in a long time that I let myself sit back and enjoy. And as soon as I started focusing on the wonderfulness that Tim has brought into my life, all the other stresses just didn't seem so important. We both felt very tender and sweet towards one another almost the whole weekend, and we synced up so perfectly at times that I swear I could taste how good it all is. Mmm.
Sunday Tim and I wrote a round-robin collaboration. We sat at Pergolesi and took turns typing 200 - 300 words on my iBook before turning it around and laughing at one another's expression. We were trying to write one another into a corner, as Tim put it, which certainly took the story places I'd have never thought of otherwise. The end result is fun, but possibly unmarketable - you can tell I had sex on the brain, but it's far too weird a story to sell as erotica. Anyway, I told Tim I wanted to do this on a regular basis; it's both an excellent writing exercise and a very sweet, productive thing to do as a couple. It pleases me deeply.
Ah, this is me most of the weekend, almost mooning over the fact that I have such a cool, sweet, cute, creative, wonderful boyfriend. We hottubbed with Carjoi (Carol and Jodi) on Saturday, and it was a nice, comfy, relaxing time. Jodi even remarked at one point how nice it was to hang out with a couple who is still in the lovey-dovey phase of their relationship too (I should point out that Carjoi have been like this for as long as I've known them, which is over three years now; I've always loved that about them, even when I was single). Everyone was very laid-back and no one tried too hard to be social every moment we were together. Very nice.
Hm, this turned out to be one of those super-sweet journal entries about Tim. Ah, these things happen. It just sure is nice to have someone so special, right, to be this happy about.
Ahhh.

Exercise log:

7/12/01 - Stretched, did 150 situps and 20 minutes on the precor today. Yes, this is a new entry, I just did the exact same thing.
Writing log:
Revised "Janitor's Night Dive" on Saturday. Sunday Tim and I wrote our first collaboration round-robin style, "Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown" which is very silly, but fun and hey! we wrote a story together! I got rejections from two of the four stories I sent out on the 4th of July. Ah, well. The latest rejection included a handwritten note urging me to submit more stuff to them, so that's encouraging :-)
I'm currently reading:
Genuis of Deceit by Tim Pratt
Slowly, chapter by chapter :-)
Fortress of Thorns by Marissa Lingen
Outlining for two kinds of studyin':
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
My new PO Box is:
Heather Shaw
P.O. Box 13222
Berkeley, CA 94712-4222

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