Ex's mom and brother were not in attendance at the concert.  D was.  I was happy.

D sat next to my roommate L (who is amazing).  He had this goofy grin on his face every time I looked.  L told me later, "He was so adorable!  He couldn't take his eyes off you, he was so smitten."

Then he helped me and the ex and ex's girl and a couple others break down the set.  Which was great because a) the more people shoving chairs and stands and timpani in a van, the easier it is, b) I got happiness and hugs and inside-joke type teasing in front of the ex and his girl (they did not seem enthused.  Ex is not good with any sort of PDA anyway--one of the many things that didn't work between us), and c) I got to spend more time with D.  Which is always good.

This might be a little too much information.  It's sex-oriented; if you don't wanna know...don't read it.  I'm a clarinet player, so I'm used to all the suck/blow whatever jokes.  I made one with D once about "practicing" my pieces on certain parts of his anatomy.  And the thing about D and me is that we are both absolutely insane.  I mean, we can have intense make-outs and he can get all mushy and stuff like that...but also we just have fun.  He's a total goofball.  He randomly breaks out into song (usually something like "You are so beautiful to me" when we're in bed together) and we have wrestling matches (usually because he is being weird and trying to do something insane like tickle me or lick me or stick gum in my nose--don't ask about that last one.  I'm not sure either).  Anyway, the point is that we tend to take our jokes wayyy past the point of normal.  So after we got done laughing over his *ahem*cock*ahem* as a clarinet, we were like....hmmm...wonder what that would be like?  Long story short, I "played" one of our pieces for him, and it's been an inside joke between us ever since.

So when this piece came up in the concert, I nearly couldn't play I was laughing so hard.  Afterwards I asked D, "So, was it as good this time?"  He said, "Well, I definitely didn't feel quite so much..." 

I left my little black concert dress on until he came over later that night.  :)

Ok, sex part over now!  It is safe to look again!

I'm aware that I'm bragging about D quite a bit lately.  We are coming up on our 6 month anniversary.  I can't believe we've made it this far.  I can't believe he's still with me.  Especially considering that he knows everything now.

I still worry about the future, particularly the long-distance thing.  D says he wants to try.  He's never done long-distance before.  But then again, he's also never had a history of long relationships and yet here we are, still together after half a year (for him, that's a long time.  I think I'm the second-longest relationship he's had at this point.  And the first was an on-and-off thing for about 9 months).  I'm still just trying to enjoy what we've got right now.  I don't want to think too hard about what's to come.

Ooooh I have another brag to make: turns out that BOTH of my presentations on Saturday won awards!  I'm super excited.  It does mean that I have to go to some sort of awards banquet and they will serve us dinner, so I guess I will have to eat something there (I checked the menu though, and almost none of the options are vegan, so maybe I can just get away with a salad and then pick at the veggie ravioli?) but they are giving me money, so I'll put up with it!  My bank account has been getting a little low lately.

Tonight I made cookies and rice krispy treats for the club party tomorrow.  Tonight I did not get enough work done.  Tonight, I will be staying up late.

Love you, lovelies.  Hope each of you has a wonderful, low-stress week.  Send good biochemistry and thesis-writing vibes--I am in desperate need of them!

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