Dinner with Mr. Stunning

So, Mr. Stunning and I had dinner at this casual sandwich-type place tonight. Then we went to a nearby bar and chatted over a couple of drinks each. We hung out for two hours in all. Then he had to head off to work on his dissertation. As we parted ways, he told me that we should do this again. In fact, he said it would be really cool if we made this a weekly/bi-weekly thing.

Sigh… he’s still hot. I still have a crush on him.

When we were chatting over dinner, though, I thought, what did I see in this guy? he’s hot and that’s it. It wasn’t until we got to the bar, a more casual setting, and had a drink or two, that I started to want him again.

The subject of his new boyfriend did come up. Tomorrow it’s going to be a month. At one point at the bar, towards the end of our time together, I can’t remember exactly what he said, but whatever it was it made me want to cry. I felt a tiny lump in my throat and wished I could tell him what I was feeling, but that wouldn’t have been a good thing to do.

I came home and played out this narrative in my head. We make it a weekly thing, we get dinner and go to a bar. Finally, one evening, I can’t take it any more, and in this emotional monologue, I pour it all out to him and tell him that I’ve had this crush on him ever since I met him.

Aren’t TV movies great?

When I came home I had this yearning. It wasn’t a sexual yearning. No — I wanted to cuddle up on the couch with someone, rest against someone special.

I so want a boyfriend lately.

Meanwhile, I went to 20something last night. I wasn’t going to go, but I decided, what the hell; when you have an opportunity to go to a place where you might meet people, you should do it. So I went.

And I met someone… I got into a long conversation with this cute guy who also seems intelligent and sweet.

We’re going to a museum together on Sunday… I like him.

Oh — and I postponed Friday night’s dinner plans with the Gay Jewish Lawyer, because I realized that I had plans to watch the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics that night. Next week is very busy for him, though, so possibly we’re having dinner next weekend instead.

As the blog turns.

Antarctica

My oldest friend in the world just arrived in Antarctica last week for his eight-month stint at McMurdo Station. (I mentioned this here.) I’ve been e-mailing with him — it’s really strange to get a same day response from someone in Antarctica. (His location is on New Zealand time, so they’re 18 hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, or 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.) He’s also sent me a few digital camera photos. Right now they have 24 hours of sunlight where he is. Quote:

so, the sun refuses to go away- you see, its daylight here 24 hrs, thats ALL THE FUCKING TIME. im really learning to hate it, dont even remember what the moon looks like. it wont start to set until about feb 20th, then we’ll have weeks of sunset and im not quite sure when it actually goes out, but im pretty sure it’s early may or late april.

This got me all inspired to play blog-boy, and dig up some Antarctica-related links:

* a map of Antarctica; his home for the next eight months, McMurdo Station, is located downward of the South Pole on this map.

* a very good introductory page to Antarctica.

* a pretty sunrise/sunset chart for McMurdo station, taken from this page, which lets you generate a pretty sunchart for anywhere in the world (the one for the South Pole looks pretty cool).

* a video of the sun revolving around the South Pole — instead of rising and setting during a 24-hour period, as it does in most other places on Earth, the sun appears to revolve around the sky during a 24-hour period (during the six-month period of sunlight, anyway).

* finally, the Earth and Moon Viewer.

I’ve long been fascinated by astronomy, by the way, so I find all this earth-moon-sun stuff really exciting. It gives you a different perspective on who we are. Night and day mean everything to us but they’re relative concepts, functions of our location on this insignificant chunk of debris as it wobbles around an ordinary star. We’re nothing!

The guy who brought us this…

…has now brought us this!

I didn’t realize how much I missed your unique voice, Steve. I’m glad you’re back.
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