The Lonely Friday

Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:57 AM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Good morning pretty lady,

How are you today? I can’t believe I missed you by 2 minutes last night. I was pretty fried. Rehearsal was loud, long and hard. I took a shower, smoked, checked the computer and fell sleep. I may not have been able to chat intelligently or even intelligibly.

I am leaning towards the Kimberly. I will find a restaurant nearby. What time can we meet? I think you said 6.

I promise not to laugh at your joint rolling. I hope I can take my hands off of you long enough to let you roll it. This week has been rough. We only just got the ball rolling and then it stopped for a week. On the bright side, I have a lot to look forward to next week.

AM charges about $3.00 per email. In theory, only for the first one but in reality you pay at least $1.50 for all of them. If you forget to uncheck some boxes, it could be as much as $10! We don’t have to pay to leave, but we would lose any credits we have. I think you are better off to leave it. A cc would double your exposure and demonstrate personal involvement. At this point, a hacker could have put up your profile.

The school will survive the NY Times article. If there are kids and adults together there will be sexual abuse. We have to stop acting like we just discovered the last incident. The girls will get an excellent education and meet people they will be glad to know later in life. It is definitely for their benefit.

We should be ready for tonight. I am prepared and do try to always be. I am obsessive. It reduces my anxiety. I also find that if I don’t have to worry about the details I can be more creative. For most of my life, I have been an insomniac. It generates lots of time for preparation. When I was younger, I could practice 2 sports, an instrument and do my homework every day. I would get up and swim or run, go to school, play on the team after school, go to piano lesson when I was done, do my homework and crash. People thought I was precocious. I was actually sleep deprived. In the last 10 years or so though, I have not been able to use the “extra” time productively. I am working on sleeping for 8 hours a day.

What are your plans for the weekend?

XOXOXO

Me

By the way, shiny boyfriend? I am shiny?
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:14 AM
 
From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

Wow, this is so weird about AM. I guess I should’ve bothered to read the rules, etc. They didn’t charge me to close my account, but charge to probably erase one from their hard drive or something. Either way, the only way that it isn’t good is if some hacker or some authority decides to confiscate their electronic files. Otherwise, I’ve gone off the site. It’s not like my profile is hidden or suspended, but I can still sign in and look at the old stuff. Wait, I can’t sign in anymore. And stupid me did it before I transferred the two initial emails from you. So, they are gone too. If you’re still on it, please go in and see if you can find me.
 
Thanks for your thoughts on the school. It’s true, this too shall pass, but it will take a while to clean this one up. I’m not too worried. They are indeed getting a good education, and hanging out with people who will be influential in the future. That’s why I like you, you’re so level-headed.
 
With how you were as a child, they would’ve accepted you at this school in a heartbeat. You are their kind of person! Always running around stuffing your life with activities. But I beg to differ about the productivity of your late night activities, well, OK not so productive, but I hope at least fun. Besides, where are we supposed to be running to? It’s better to slow down and smell the roses. I’ve always needed 8 hours, but now I can do 6 or 7.

So, guess what is most probably happening to me this week-end? NOTHING! When they say, be careful what you wish for. Remember how I complained about not having a moment to myself? Well, the husband is gone to Iran to deal with his mother's estate, and the girls just got an invitation to go up to the country with a friend from this afternoon until Sunday. So, here I am a bachelorette with a closed AM account, and an indisposed boyfriend.
 
Brand new things are shiny, so you’re shiny like that, like a piece of something glinting a child (me) finds exciting. You’re kind of shiny like I’m skinny : )

XO

R.
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM
 
From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

Our late night activities are fun and in a sense productive as well. I certainly enjoy it more than studying. Just not the kind of thing that impresses people.
 
I definitely need to smell the roses. I also need to work on 8 hours of sleep. The health risks are extreme. I still feel a need to be “improving” myself. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to learn the things I want to learn.
 
Enjoy yourself this week-end. It is too bad we can’t get together. If I had known yesterday, I could have changed some plans around and seen you on Saturday. We could meet for coffee or something, but that seems like a lot of travel for not much time together. Besides, we are spending a lot of time together this coming week. You might get sick of me, even if I am shiny.

Me
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:21 AM
 
From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

I think I will see some of my friends. I never have enough time for them. So, hopefully, they’ll be around. Stop improving yourself, you’re perfect the way you are. Haven’t you heard the song? And you work at MTV! : )

The Kimberly sounds good. I’ll drop off at 5:30 and take the highway straight down, so I should be there or the restaurant at about 6:15. Let’s talk about the details on Tuesday. I won’t get sick of you, don’t worry, Shiny.
I’ll be thinking of you tonight.

R. (that stands for Really Shiny’s girlfriend)
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX

I love thinking about you as my girlfriend. You are so hot. I wish I could show you off. What good is arm candy if nobody knows? I am looking forward to finding out behind closed doors. I have a feeling you will make keeping it a secret worthwhile. It sure has been so far. This has been an amazing experience. You are the roses I was talking about smelling earlier. I could get used to this. 
I reserved a room. I didn’t get a restaurant. We can talk about that on Tuesday.
Have a great day.

XOXOXOXO
Me
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:11 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX 

Btw, it says profile not found.
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:26 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

Thanx. Now get off that site : )
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:58 PM

From: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX
To: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX 

I hope to never go back. 
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Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:21 PM

From: Claudia Bonn@ XXXXX.XXX
To: K<dancing.midnight@XXXXX.XXX

I was in your neighborhood today, of all days, from around 4:30 to 6:30. I took the kids to the foot doctor at 25 CPW, then walked to Broadway where my car service guy picked them up to take them to their friends’ house. I needed to go to the Apple store. Then, I was wandering around, saw the Food Emporium on the corner of that modernism building cross from Loews, and wondered if that’s the one you go to, then browsed at Banana Republic and Century 21. They have good stuff for kids, because basically most of the stuff there is disposable after a few wears. I kept being paranoid about running into you, and you thinking that I was stalking you. Then I would become indignant and think, “This used to be my neighborhood before the UES ever was." I lived there from college all the way to 1997. I remember walking from 108 and Riverside Drive where I lived down Broadway to 56th between 8 and 9 where I worked. And back then, it wasn’t like it is now. Then I would look at every 5'2" woman and think, “Is that his wife?” That got me thinking whether your wife looks much younger than her years, like you. You look so much younger than 46, at least by 10 years, if not in your early 30s. That’s the perk of being small boned, having all your hair and being fit. 

 So, anyway, I’m home now, and thinking of you, and I won’t send this until you’re gone for your gig already, because you don’t need this now.

I’ll check back later tonight. I guess if it starts at 9, it ends at 11? So, I’ll check at 11 or so. See if you’re up. So, clingy. Shoot me now, Shiny.

BTW, what’s with the heels? You want me to wear them or not? Last time we were together, you asked if I wear flats all the time. So, does that mean, "wear high heels", or does it mean, "are you wearing them on my account?" Or what? I’m probably not wearing them on Tuesday, but I’ll wear them on Wednesday and Thursday. I have 2-1/2 inches and a pair I bought today that are higher. Your call, my sweet. Tell me which ones.

Now it’s past 11, so I’ll send this. Did you do well? Did you have fun? I hope so on both counts : )

XOXOXO
R.