p.s.
Saturday night Jen and I (along with Francesca) cooked dinner with "the boys" - Andrea, Gugs, Tommaso, and Marco. We made a big feast of rosemary/lemon chicken, breaded eggplant, pasta, and a darkchocolate/coconut cake. I made the cake the night before while Jen was breading the eggplant, in our kitchen with the windows thrown wide open and a clear view of the night sky and rising full moon. I felt like something straight out of Like Water for Chocolate, infusing the food with love and passion... Anyway, we played The Party Game (in Italian!) with the boys and talked about world politics, gayness, trans issues (yeah, italians don't really understand), and "queerness". I was pretty impressed with how open they were. The dinner was at Marco's house, and Andrea and I spent the night there. We're still in (occasionally) recurring hook-up mode, which is great on my account. Saturday was fun though because we got to talk a lot more (he's 25, an astro-physics major - favorite constellation Orion, etc). Also good because I orgasmed! He was starting to go down on me but I stopped and redirected him, I felt so outgoing telling him exactly what I wanted, exactly how. "Così?" ("like so?) he said earnestly. Oh! And then in the morning when he gave me a ride home he looked over and was like "your hands are full" so he hopped out of the car and opened my door for me. He's sweet and gentlemanly, and that's fun.