So perhaps not quite as crazy as some of the other things that have happened
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Aug 25 '14, 23:06
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Terri and I met up to this evening and she was dropped off by her boyfriend. He headed off to local coffee shop as he's studying for MCAT in prep to applying to MBA program
Met up afterwards at coffee shop and actually talked to BF for an extended time for the first time. Very unexpectedly we were able to talk shop. Not only does he actually understand what I sell, he really understands. There was a point where I think both of us saw Terri's eyes glaze over as we talked single vs double molecular bonds, SOx, NOX, ORP...er, that's probably enough to lose most of you
So perhaps not quite as disbelief inducing as some of my other tales but it does strike me as fairly random that we'd have a rather niche professional background in common.
As an aside, the vignettes haven't been nearly as frequent nor outlandish as starting to kind of get a grip on things.
Terri's an age appropriate, stabilizing factor as she's kind of reminded me that I am middle age. She's also quite the competitor and I'd feel endlessly guilty if I let her down on one of our runs so that tends to get me to bed at decent hour the nights before our runs. As well as making me consider generally taking care of myself along the line...I can run like this eating just slightly better than a fast food diet..what happens if I make more of a commitment? So actually cooking things like tuna steaks and pork loin.
I think that meeting up with her at least weekly though of late multiple times a week as she's stepped up her commitment to training...has kicked me back to the age I am. The twenty somethings look like the way too young that they are and so I now recognize to stay away. ;-)
I've also been extraordinarily lucky to have found a true friend in one of our own. Although she's not currently participating here other than a brief appearance recently, b! does lurk around and caught my utter meltdown from a few months ago. She found a way to get an email me to me and offered a virtual shoulder to lean on / cry on. I gladly took the offer and she's been tremendous in being there as a friend.
We'd briefly had off board conversations way back in the day. (She sent me a Girl, Interrupted hospital band!) So there was some link but it had been years ago so it was completely unexpected when I got the email
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