I’ve been socializing.  At first it was with the high school reunion committee.  We had the party on the 6th so two weeks before and the week after the emailing and phoning was constant.  I wrote a thing about it which sparked much feedback so one of the guys started a blog but that’s died down.

Prior to that I met some people that I’m fond of.  Remember the young woman I met at the Recorder Society?  Well, she had a party a while back and I met a friend of her husband’s who is a commodities trader.  He has been teaching me how but once he figured out how old I was and once I figured out how hard that game is — Well, today I told him that we probably didn’t have much reason to hang out.  We both lost a lot of money the last few days and we were supposed to get together tonight but I called him and canceled.  What’s the point?  I miss him already, though.  He stays up until 3 in the morning to watch corn, or maybe it was the dollar.  So we’d talk for hours while I taught him about the stock market and he taught me about futures’ contracts.  It was fun.  He’s a Virgo, too, and a good teacher.  We got along really well.

I also met someone from the meditation class.  My voice teacher tried to set me up with him in the beginning of summer but he’s married so I said I wasn’t interested.  That was until I read an email he’d sent me months ago that I somehow missed.  He got his masters in India, worked for Llyods of London, came here and opened up a store, which he just sold, but his wife refuses to leave Chicago.  We talk about meditation.  I have a hard time keeping up with his logic and making out his English but he is fascinating.  In person, though, he is very stiff.

It’s fun to spend time with new people but then I feel lonely when they fizzle out.