Dear ones,

Thank you all for checking in on me. I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long!! It's update time!

A few days after my last phone conversation with B, I emailed him to let him know I'd be in NYC, because that seems to have worked in the past (as opposed to phone/text):

Dear B,

I hope you had fun at the birthday party and got some good rest after your super intense weekend ! A YI YI IIIIII!!

Thanks again for sharing your decision making tools such as: a) drool, b) pretending that time does not exist, c) stumachs, d) contemplating lost season five. (Maybe I could get some of that truth serum from the man who lived in the teepee to help me make my decision). You are so helpful!

I forgot to tell you I'll be in NYC Saturday April 11th til Thursday April 16th. It would be great to see you if you're around!

Also, i thought you might want to hear this:
[link to gamelan piece]
It is "salju" (snow) by alit [the balinese composer I have worekd with]... the recording is really quiet on my
computer, your speakers would probably make it way better.

TRANSFORMER

The next day he emailed me back:

It's sounds like the snow is falling in the sky, then the background reminds me of old school computer electronic lights, and then it has that jam section in the middle. I forgot how different gamelan sounds! You must miss that a ton - there is nothing like it that I can think of...

I'll be in town from Apr 14 - 16. Let me know when you can get a drink/meal and maybe we can meet up. See you soon!

I thought it was nice that he took the time to listen to the piece I sent him and describe his reaction to it.

Two days later I wrote him back:

Dear B,

I like hearing your response to the music! Yes, gamelan, you are
right, I miss it. For some reason the snow piece really gets me.
alit is using the gamelan in a really unusal way--I think he is only using a few instruments at a time for a lot of the piece which is super unusual. He blows my mind!! One quiet soft little snowflake at a time!

Maybe tuesday or wednesday? What works for you?

Here's a little tidbit I just got yesterday from my friend XXX XXXX. She wrote it for her students...a cello rap! [another link]

Then I didn't hear anything from him for a while, so I texted him a few days before he said he would be available, basically because if we didn't plan in advance I would either not see him or blow off a friend I hadn't seen in four years. There was a rather lengthy text exchange. Finally he texted me asking me to meet him at 5 pm on tuesday at a restaurant on the lower east side called "Caravan of Dreams" and then included subway directions from every possible different subway (which was nice). then he texted me that he had band practice at 7 and I was surprised by how upset I got... that we kept seeing each other only when he had something scheduled directly after, in these tiny 60-90 minute increments. But of course I didn't say anything.