For me to let the dishes pile up like this, something has to be going on. I haven’t even picked up my knitting this week. And I haven’t yet written my conference paper. (Well, I’ve written a page of it.)
I wrestle with categories in all parts of my life and work, and while I’m unsure exactly how much I want to say about my week here in this space, which is somewhere between private and public in ways that mean a lot to me, I also feel like you’ve all been here as I’ve tried to think about and work through some very personal things, especially in this last year. So it seems only appropriate to tell you that I’ve started seeing someone. He’s been smiling at me for weeks. The occasional conversation turned into the occasional email, which, last Wednesday, turned into a lecture, dinner, a movie screening, and tea (all in one afternoon-into-evening). So much is unexpected and surprising about this for me: there are many things about us that are quite different, and yet, we have great conversation and chemistry.
I probably won’t say much more about this. I don’t know what it will become, how it will develop. But my real-life community can see me grinning (and is giving me a good-natured hard time about it), and as you all are also part of my community, I wanted to tell you too.
So there it is: the reason the dishes have piled up, that my work is not getting done, that I have no knitting, or even silly Boh pictures to share — and the reason I’ve been smiling all week.
barefoot rooster 
Good for you! Enjoy, and I hope Boh approves :)
Yippee!! What does Boh think of him?? :-)
I just KNEW it! And I am so happy for you. Enjoy the attention. I’m sure Boh is thrilled too.
Smiling is wonderful and am happy that you are and the reasons behind it. I had a feeling about this. :-) Enjoy it!
In the spring, a young (wo)man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love…
:-)
Awesome! I’m really happy for you. Dishes shmishes, I say (though it’s hard to!).
Terrific news !! Don’t worry about your dishes in the sink – they will keep. Hope everything works out well and that Boh likes him too.
What Jodi said. A little flutter makes spring even more sprightly. Hope you’re having an obscene amount of fun.
I’m smiling right along with you! The dishes can wait, I say! Now about that knitting….. :)
Happy, happy for you!
yay! so glad you’re enjoying yourself ;)
I knew it! We’re all smiling with you. :-)
You are you so special and you deserve to feel special! Enjoy it and forget the dishes.
Well that’s a pretty damn good reason to have not done the dishes ;) I’m so glad to hear that you are smiling!!!
As soon as you said you had something to share with us I just had this inkling that it was a friend of the male persuasion. Yay! I love that thrilling feeling of first crushing on and getting to know a new person. Reminds me of the excitement I felt when my husband and I first dated…
Well, I wish you the best of luck. Remember, never compromise who you are and you’ll be just fine. :)
Ah HA! I had a feeling something like this was going on….and when I saw the picture of the piled up dishes, I immediately recognized it as a sign of new love (or new like…or new “we’ll see”). That is the BEST. Whatever it is or becomes, have fun! I’m smiling for you, too. :)
Yay….
Enjoy! Have Fun! Keep smiling!