I loved it there.

Me too, except that the first time I went, when we snuck out in the middle of the night and slept underneath some rocks against all the rules, the girl I had a crush on hooked up with the other guy we we were with.

'Course, that was first term freshmen year, and they're going to grad school together after 4 full years of dating. So I guess I can't possibly be that bitter.

It is lovely in Joshua Tree...

But it is also July. I expect hell has a nice month or two in there too.

I have skimmed, meara (hi meara!), is the trip an um thing or are you in town for additional reasons?

Something insectual just macked on my arm. I have applied salve and taken a Benedryl in protest. Anything crawls (and I see it) and I'm thwacking it.

Wrongheaded Writer

Anything crawls (and I see it) and I'm thwacking it as if it were an Australian woman with zero sense.

when we snuck out in the middle of the night and slept underneath some rocks against all the rules

This happens remarkably frequently out there.

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Clearly.

Yeah, it's a disappointment, because she's the first profile I've come across with which I've felt a clear rapport. And I don't know from her email why she felt differently. Of course, she just might have met someone else last week or something.

Anyway, I sent her another email thanking her for hers, and making one final stealth play (the lorikeet line again, it worked pretty well the first time). If that falls flat, c'est la vie.

And meanwhile, I do have a phone number with someone else's name on it.

Yes...

As do bonfires, listening to Eagles music and underage drinking.

Simultaneously.

Did I miss anything?

is the trip an um thing or are you in town for additional reasons?

No no, sadly, no umthing until AUGUST. It's FOREVER away. This is just a work trip.

Oh that *is* forever away... The shopping is a Cabazon outlet thing [edit: best suit I ever bought came from there, at a steal of a price. If I lose weight, I can wear it again.] or does Palm Springs have better shopping than I recall?

Why are there many people I like and would like to hang out with in the desert right now and I am two and half hours away but forever when you factor in the have to be at work every day? (Run-on sentences lacking any real form of punctuation are cool. Pass it on.)

And meanwhile, I do have a phone number with someone else's name on it.

Did I miss anything?

You ate rocks.