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pants panties knickers Maybe in an effort to make up for yesterday, Nicole and I spent an hour at work this morning talking and it was great. Quite honestly I could have stayed next to her all night trading stories, but I did feel a small amount of obligation to get back to my department which is in another room than where she sits. In my defense, when I got back to my department I found out that I didn't miss a thing while I was talking with her. Everything was as quiet as could be, which was a relief to me and no I did not go back to talk with her some more even though I wanted to do so. I did call her later in the morning, but she was napping so I left her alone. Then when I tried to see her one more time before I went home she was talking with someone else. I guess that I had had my time with her for the night. Through the course of our conversation, the two of us caught up on the various exploits of our families. Then the tone became slightly more serious. Both of us agree that the prospect of getting old has very appeal or to put it another way neither of us wants to end up in a nursing home. Nor do we want to be a burden to our children or other family members. I then went on to say that reaching fifty was good enough for me, but Nicole said that forty was enough for her. Maybe our kind of thinking sounds morbid or slightly naive, but we are in no hurry to have our bodies fail us. What is the point of living longer if one's body is useless? Of course our way of thinking probably isn't that unique and probably explains the fitness craze that so many people cling to as a way to avoid such a fate. No one wants to have a body that is useless despite what he or she might do to it. ... The drive home this morning was accompanied by an overcast sky that seemed to match my muddled thoughts. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and it bothered me slightly that I didn't have a chance to talk with Nicole again. Once again I let myself get a little too attached to her. ... I liked Bridget Jones's Diary enough that I watched it for a second time today with the audio commentary and I agreed with most of what the director said. The heart of the movie is loneliness masquerading as comedy, which is fine. Not everyone is happy being alone and society does tend to look down upon people that are single. Even though I have a degree in English, I have to confess that I've never read a Jane Austen novel. That meant that the plot of the movie wasn't known to me ahead of time although there were what I think are definite female fantasy elements in it that I've seen before in other movies. There was the brooding aloof man that attracts and repels at the same time. Then there was the typical bad boy who makes life exciting and miserable at the same time wonderfully played by Hugh Grant. Naturally this gave way to the two of them fighting over the same woman. ... The play season begins in September I'll be seeing both Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and a production of Moby Dick.
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