ironymaiden | five questions, concluded

five questions from

buhrger. want some? you know the drill.

1. one theme that runs through the whole of your lj is C and how much the two of you mean to each other. how did you meet, when did you realize that you'd be spending so much time together, and what was it that brought you to that realization?

C's roommate in college was a friend-of-a-friend. my first memory of him is that he was hanging out with a guy who insisted on using a fake British accent, and i didn't want to be around that sort of idiot. his first memory of me is of my roommate and i using our superior standing to force him into his last choice in room assignment on the newly formed Creative Arts floor.
there wasn't one moment of revelation, but a series of little ones. our courtship consisted of talking until the sun rose, night after night. we started finishing sentences for one another immediately. we agree on politics. there's a common obsession with snuggling. we're geeks together; he's way more hardcore on games and i'm way more hardcore on books, but with the exception of Battletech we each "get" the other's interests and our fandoms overlap completely. within a month of when we started dating, my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor; i paused in the hysterical crying when i realized that C was handling my used kleenex. when the school year ended, we started writing each other every day (no internet access, no car, and scant money for the phone and yes we still have all of them from our several periods of LDR). so i knew in two months that it was something i wanted to last into the next semester, and after about a year and a half i couldn't imagine being without him.

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5. anent our first meeting, you commented M&C did create a false set of expectations - what were you expecting that you didn't get?
i was prepared for you to be shy, taciturn, and unkempt. instead you were perfectly willing to talk to strangers, and even to show off a little. you were a fine conversationalist, in fact. i also failed to get the unkempt thing, but i like men to look like Jesus (even if i don't trust him as my saviour).
what did you get that you weren't expecting?
somewhat elaborated above. plenty of time to talk over both chai and dinner (even though there were opportunities to exit gracefully if you chose), and while i expected to have questions asked of me, i didn't expect to get so many answered. and hugs.