Odd day today
Aug. 20th, 2003 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaireAs you might remember, I didn't dare to call Richard last night. Well, after much summoning up my strength and composing myself I decided to do it finally. It was around 9:30 PM... and the line rang busy. *sigh* I tried it for a bit more and then decided to call the other day from work. Which I actually did! Yay me! Around 10 I called his number, got his machine and left a strange message giving him about ANY number I have expect for my work number which seemed to be pointless, but later proved to would have been useful. Meh... Anyway, I went back to my computer and found a mail from him telling me that he'll be in and out of office all day. I thought "Great!" and wrote him back and said I'd be there around 3:30.
At said time I arrived at his office and found it deserted, of course. A note at the door said he'd be back at 4. So I decided to hang out in the library for a bit. I met a friend from the Nature writing class there and we chatted nicely and laughed about some cartoons. At 4:00 I went back to the office and still found no Richard. At around 4:10 I decided that it'll probably be pointless to wait since I had a long ride ahead of me. So I left.
When I got back home mom greeted my with saying "There was a call for you by some American and it wasn't Tom." It turned out he called at 3:00 and around 5:00 again. He got my mom twice. How very embarrassing. That made me feel extremely bad and embarrassed. What made it even more complicated was that his mailer sorta sends out bogus time stamps, so you never know when it sent something.
Tom insisted that it wasn't my fault and I shouldn't feel bad. But I couldn't really help it. Anyway, around 8:00 or so I received a call at home and it was Richard! That made me feel a hundred times better. He apologized and said we probably missed each other by less than 5 mins. or so. D'oh! Well, we had a nice chat. It was really pleasant. I hadn't expected him to actually want to talk to me. I thought he just wanted to, dunno, ask something or so. We talked about long distance relationships. He said he's impressed how it works with Tom and me and he said he'll go through this soon too since he's seeing someone here and will be going back to NY real soon. We talked about this and that. He was wondering how he could have conducted the creative writing course in a different way and I told him it was fine the way it was since all the students were really devoted. We talked about Goethe and I promised to send him some nice translations. And he wanted me to send him some of my poetry! Yikes! Gotta do that by tomorrow. Then he'll be leaving for Turkey. He might be back by Wednesday and then we might manage to meet one final time. Now really final time. Heh... He said he's sure I'll publish something one day. Wish I had his confidence.
Well, that was a nice finisher for the day I guess. Just wanted to write it down.
At said time I arrived at his office and found it deserted, of course. A note at the door said he'd be back at 4. So I decided to hang out in the library for a bit. I met a friend from the Nature writing class there and we chatted nicely and laughed about some cartoons. At 4:00 I went back to the office and still found no Richard. At around 4:10 I decided that it'll probably be pointless to wait since I had a long ride ahead of me. So I left.
When I got back home mom greeted my with saying "There was a call for you by some American and it wasn't Tom." It turned out he called at 3:00 and around 5:00 again. He got my mom twice. How very embarrassing. That made me feel extremely bad and embarrassed. What made it even more complicated was that his mailer sorta sends out bogus time stamps, so you never know when it sent something.
Tom insisted that it wasn't my fault and I shouldn't feel bad. But I couldn't really help it. Anyway, around 8:00 or so I received a call at home and it was Richard! That made me feel a hundred times better. He apologized and said we probably missed each other by less than 5 mins. or so. D'oh! Well, we had a nice chat. It was really pleasant. I hadn't expected him to actually want to talk to me. I thought he just wanted to, dunno, ask something or so. We talked about long distance relationships. He said he's impressed how it works with Tom and me and he said he'll go through this soon too since he's seeing someone here and will be going back to NY real soon. We talked about this and that. He was wondering how he could have conducted the creative writing course in a different way and I told him it was fine the way it was since all the students were really devoted. We talked about Goethe and I promised to send him some nice translations. And he wanted me to send him some of my poetry! Yikes! Gotta do that by tomorrow. Then he'll be leaving for Turkey. He might be back by Wednesday and then we might manage to meet one final time. Now really final time. Heh... He said he's sure I'll publish something one day. Wish I had his confidence.
Well, that was a nice finisher for the day I guess. Just wanted to write it down.
