Archive for May 25th, 2008
Chimeras
I don’t really like to blog about myself. I started blogging in 2001, and I think I exhausted most of my interest in me by 2004 or so. I will, however, continue the psycho bitches entries, because I think I’m learning something by doing them. That, and maybe some other guys who share my faults will learn as well.
But like I said, I don’t like to blog about myself, so instead, I’d like to direct you to this radio show: RadioLab; and this entry at the ever-fascinating Damn Interesting about human chimeras…
Girls and notes (The Psycho Bitches, entry 1)
I slept with several girls during my senior year in high school. Now that I’m old, married and monogamous, this is basically irrelevant, but I still think about that year because some of what happened romantically was so fucking weird. This post is the first in an irregular series of entries intended to detail some of that insanity, just for my own amusement, if nothing else.
Teri (not her real name — you can just assume that every name I use is fake) had a pretty face. Her cheekbones were exquisite and her teeth were perfect. She was one of the few people I’d ever met who really was half Native-American. Her caucasian side showed in her light brown, wavy hair and pale green-brown eyes.
She sat next to me in English. A few days before homecoming she slipped me a note, asking me to go. It wasn’t the first time a girl had asked me out at that point, but I was still a sucker for that sort of thing. I wasn’t seeing anyone, so naturally, I said yes. Besides, she really was pretty hot, over all. In the next few days we began hanging out and making out, usually after school. The day of homecoming, she passed me another note, again in English class. Teri asked if I was into games. I returned the note, asking her what she meant by games. She responded, “love-making games.”
It was a weird way to put it, but I understood her perfectly. She was asking me if we could fuck after homecoming that night. After school that day I tried to clarify her meaning. She simply said, “you’ll see.”
Yep, she meant fucking. So we did…
