David asked me to move to the US with him ( Read more... )

No one will remember this but I wrote last summer about going on a lovely first date with a French guy named Renaud. We met one Saturday afternoon and had espresso and baguettes along with a nice conversation for a couple of hours, and then we parted with cheek kisses. He told me that we should meet up the following weekend and told me where and ( Read more... )

Here’s the bulk of an email I received from Chris yesterday:

I wonder if there is ( Read more... )

I’m experiencing a low. I am extremely depressed and although I’m trying to reach out to friends, I actually feel a much stronger desire to curl up in the fetal position than to fight off the depression with social contact. I suppose that’s pretty bad then ( Read more... )

I have yet to buy a scale. I’m still dieting, of course, but it’s much harder to track my progress without one ( Read more... )

The other night, Chris told me that he wants me to be his girlfriend until the end of his days.

I was delighted, but I facetiously replied: “Girlfriend?!He told me that he meant to say his “lady love ( Read more... )

This week is flying by. I feel like it was only yesterday that I was putting Chris on the train to Vienna; in a week, I could be preparing to go there myself ( Read more... )

I wish I had a better memory so that I could fully recapture some of the things that Chris has said to me in the past 24 hours. These statements were prompted by my trying to stop being so clingy and also to stop arguing with him post-holidays ( Read more... )

Chris accepted a new job today. In Vienna, of course. He will not be moving to Prague in the foreseeable future. I have been amazingly calm about this, probably because I saw it coming for a while. I’m trying to have an if-it’s-mean-to-be-it-will-be attitude and succeeding, mostly, I think ( Read more... )

I threw up this morning. I think I have a very mild case of food poisoning, but I still came to work today because I didn't want to miss the first day back. I'm proud of myself for this, but I haven't been able to eat any solid foods and still feel quite lousy ( Read more... )