Several weeks ago...well, over a month now, I met DDB at an academic conference. We went out for dinner and chatted over the several days of the conference and never quite made it to the final banquet. We were busy doing other things. After our 5-day beginning I left for home for a month. It ended up being good because we each had a lot of work to get done and we would not have accomplished this if we were together, but we did email almost daily and talked a couple of times on the phone. I anxiously checked my email multiple times every day just incase he had emailed me.
Now I am back and he is gone for a couple of days. We did manage to see each other for an hour before he left town. It was very good to see him. I wondered when I was at home what it would be like to see him again. Our meeting was so whirlwind that I have to admit that I had doubts regarding how I would feel upon seeing him again. I was so excited to see him and it felt good to just talk to him face-to-face. In some ways while I was home he felt like a dream; my life here did not see quite real while I was back home and he was part of that life. Its a funny thing.
Of course, now he is gone for 3 more days. I would like to be in town with him for several days at a time so we can work out some sort of regular schedule of seeing each other and fit each other into our real lives. As it is, so far we have always been rushed to see each other, to talk, or spend time together. I can't wait to just be able to sit with him and not worry about running off somewhere, to spend a day together to see how we get along over an extended period. I want to know how this is going to go and how well we get along in the real world. I know that is a lot to ask for, but I just want a real life and to have him as part of that. Who knows if we will last the month or the Summer or the year but I think we are each willing and interested to find that out.
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