Wednesday I slept six hours, woke up kind of slowly, then finally dressed in a hurry and ran out the door, hoping to catch the laser place still open. It was, whew. I made a new appointment, without even checking when my last one was. I know it was some time ago, and the hairs are really starting to fill in now, especially on my upper lip. Just in the last week or so, there’s been a beard shadow that remains even after shaving. Walking on down the street, I went to Diva for a breakfast of dosas and cocktails. That was good but I was worried it wouldn’t be enough, so I crossed the street to have a salad and coffee at Diesel This was perfect. But, by now it was like 10:00 and I had plans to go back to Jacque’s. See, Deanna had told me that Wednesdays are much better than Tuesdays and had promised me more men. Whew, she turned out to be right.
In Jacque’s about 10:30, the place was just starting to fill up, and the show hadn’t started yet. Deanna was there. I smiled at her and sat at the bar. Before long she came to talk to me, which was really nice, I thought. We’d chatted for just a little bit when I saw…Amy(!) walk in. She looked like she might have come with another girl, but she told me later she was alone. She hadn’t spotted me when she walked right behind me, and I said over my shoulder, “Amy.” She did the double take and was happy to discover it was me. Now she sat with me, Deanna drifted away, and Amy and I talked about picking up men, just like Deanna and I had talked the night before. What fun.
So…….the time had come for Sonia. Trina had talked to me about men. Deanna had, Amy had, and, heck…I’d picked up men before, but that all predated Sonia. I’d looked around the room and had had my eye on my top choice. He’d been here and there around the bar, and for a long time had stood just on the other side of Amy from me. Now he was gone. “Where did my man go?” I asked Amy, giggling that he was the one I wanted. I twisted around to look for him, and there he was standing immediately behind me! Eek! Whether he heard me or not, minutes later he introduced himself. Ah, yes, he wanted me.
He ended up getting us a room at a hotel. Both of us were interested in working quickly. I pleased my man, and then he was snoring before I could come back from the bathroom. I watched the clock patiently for 10 minutes to make sure he would stay asleep, dressed and slipped back out into the night.
Cab back to Harvard Square, about 1:30, lunch at CVS, up the street to put in a few hours at the office. (Yes, I processed asteroid data for a few hours.)
On the way home in the morning, I thought I’d go by the dry cleaner’s and check their hours to see when I could come back to drop off my coat. Silly me, dry cleaners open early. What to do then? I could save a trip by dropping it off then and walking home without a coat. It’s only a few blocks. I surely wouldn’t die. I told the woman that I was leaving my coat, she glanced around me and saw that I didn’t have another one with me and her eyes got wide. “I don’t have far to go” I explained. I slipped off my coat and underneath was my sleeveless top. Now, walking out into the freezing winter air might have been shocking enough, but she forgot all about that at the sight of my arms. “Oh, you have big muscles!” she said in her Asian accent. “You very strong!” I smiled, took my claim check, and hurried home.
The icy sidewalks were full of people on their way to work. Not one of them gave a second look to the woman with bare arms. There’s the morning work crowd for ya.
Back in the heated house, I know I should have kept my mouth shut, but I couldn’t resist telling Al of my adventures. He really didn’t need to hear that. I’m so bad.
