In cooler news, Carly Milne, founder of Moxie.ca mentioned my diary in an interview with Ennui Magazine. Cool beans.

Jake and Sara and I went to see "Shrek" yesterday afternoon. Totally fun movie even if it is unbearably overmerchandised. And why did Robin Hood have a French accent? I was even able to tolerate a theater full of little kids, 'cause a kid's movie is their turf, and they have a right to be there. See? Sometimes I can be reasonable about the existence of children. I'll definitely want to rent the movie to catch the lines I missed because of the crying and wailing outbreaks.

I plan to have a nice, quiet evening with Deb. She needs some one-on-one attention before the big Sara-centric Long-ass Walk Thing weekend in San Diego.

We had to sit semi-apart from each other on the train this morning, and I only squeezed her knee instead of kissing her goodbye when I got off at my stop. I feel a little bad about that.

Yes, big bad out Badsnake sometimes has problems with lip-to-lip public displays of affection. And I feel a little odd kissing Deb goodbye on the train when we, uh, trainpool (she joins me for the ride into town and Jake picks her up from work on the way home). I never see straight people kissing goodbye on the train either, but I think that's because it's rare to see two people riding together who have different destinations. But I always do it. Just a little peck. But I wasn't comfortable doing it when I wasn't sitting right next to her.

The seats were arranged like this:

1
2
3 4

I was in seat 2, and Deb was in seat 4. Some guy was in seat 3 and another woman was in seat 1. You're pretty much shoulder-to-shoulder with whoever is on the bench next to you (1 and 2 is one bench, 3 and 4 is another bench). People were also standing in the ailes, as usual.

Anyway, that's my shameful admission for the morning. I just don't want people looking at us funny or possibly saying something rude to Deb after I leave the train. I should call her and make sure she didn't feel rejected or anything.

I still have an unanswered question in the guestbook to address. The one about how do I handle this relationship without jealousy. It's a good question, and the short answer is, "We don't." But I can't just leave it at that without more explanation and I don't have time to write it out right now. In the meantime, this entry talks about the jealousy issue fairly well.

Must go edit dry technical stuff now.