Dearest A,

I wish I could show you my hat!! it is like 234 hats in one! Facebook is slowly percolating... I don't even know how to upload photos to my computer though, I am so technologically helpless \:\( That would be a HUGE 180 for me though!! It is probably only a matter of time before my urge to learn what everyone actually looks like overwhelms my hesitancy to join the facebook revolution!!

I hope I don't have to wait until August to hear from him again! I haven't seen him online -- this is like the ONLY spying I do, sometimes I check in gmail to see if he is online -- since before he left for camp. I am almost wondering if he got the dates mixed up, and left on tues when the camp actually started (instead of wed, the day he told me he was going) and doesn't have email and didn't get my message yet?

How long should I wait before contacting him again? I think at least a week, maybe a month, I dunno. I am trying to think of a suave way to let him know that I am interested in seeing him next time I'm in NYC. Maybe I could pretend that I'll definitely be in NYC in early august and then if he won't be around, just not go to NYC. Of course this will involve waiting for him to contact me and then allowing some time to pass before bringing up the possibility of another meeting... which means I will probalby have to make a plan and buy plane tickets regardless of what his plans are. aich!!!

Today I went out to Coney Island to see the detrius of the famous mermaid parade. there were lots of people in insane costumes, incl. one woman dressed as a seahorse on stilts, wearing I think only ribbons strategically wrapped around her body (*maybe* there was like a thong under there or something). It was weird though, surrounded by this surging mass of humanity, I felt so, so so lonely... on the subway ride home I thought, I really want someone to promise *to try* to love me forever... and I just have this yearning for my B, maybe I am just hormonal or ovulating or something, or bottled up feelings are getting uncorked b/c I actually got to see him. \:\(

Anyway, thank you for posting to me Ali, you are so wonderful \:\)

LOVE,
TRANSFORMER

PS happy solstice!! does the solstice have any special astrological impact on us???