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UPDATE: Summer's End, 2005

Yeah, yeah, I know...

there's been no update since June.

Trust me, teachers have

very busy summers.

And since Eric and I are both teachers,

we've been twice as busy. And it's going

to get busier. Eric will be spending more

time with his district responsibilities, his

political work and -- oh, yeah -- a little

teaching on the side. And I've got all

those damn No Child Left Standing

requirements to meet, four new

certification fields to attain, and

--of course --

we've both got this very happy,

very new relatonship to enjoy

and cultivate and... LOL,

we're BUSY, damn it!

Very busy in a very good way.

I have been a stranger to the WWW

for the last couple of months -- which

is good, but that has also meant I've

been terrible about maintaining internet-

based friendships, and for that I'm sorry.

SO...

I'm putting the website to rest for a while,

and shifting my on-line time to e-mail and

some (very limited) forum time. I don't want

to be one of those guys who ignores the

whole world when he's got a new boyfriend,

but I hope you'll be one of those guys who

realizes that guys with new boyfriends ignore

the whole world. It's a sickness. Sorry.

E-mail me (same old address)

and let's stay in touch.

max

Physics, Eric explained to me, has something to do with math. Or science. I forget. On the other hand, when we watched Baby Jane, I had to say, "The one in the chair is named Joan Crawford." (Apparently his dissertation did not involve aging film goddesses, although I would think the field of Theoretical Physics should include at least a passing examination of Faye Dunaway's most recent face lift.)

We are The Odd Couple, and in the movie version we will probably be played by Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane -- or, if I have casting approval, Neil Patrick Harris and Jay O. Sanders (I think I could be Jay's break-out role.) He's a college physics professor, I'm a high school fine arts teacher. He's 35 and I'm 51. (although he only looks 28 and I only look 52.) He lives a very ascetic life, I'm a retail whore. He's a Bay Area native and I'm a transplanted Okie. He's an ISTJ and I'm an ENFP.

BUT... we're both very political and both Liberals. Both highly ethical atheists (he's a UU, I'm a Secular Humanist.) Both invested in social justice, both smart, both relationship-oriented, honest, emotionally open, comfortably masculine and sexually compatable. Very sexually compatable.

AND ... this is a guy I can respect and trust, who feels good and right in my arms, whom I love to see when I'm falling asleep and when I wake up, and whose first kiss left us both -- in his word -- "twitterpated." And, oh, yeah -- I love him.