WAW just sent me an e-mail. Forwarding me an email from her Oldest Childhood Friend.
OCF was there at "the moment" when WAW decided to arm the Bomb.
OCF was the first one WAW contacted after dropping said Bomb. The first one WAW informed that she was now free to pursue "other interests LOL" -- viz, the late and unlamented, the ghost of OM's past, Signore Schmuckatelli. So OCF is what you might call the Charter Member of Team WAW.
Now let me say at the outset I have mixed feelings -- moral reservations, he said, shockingly, Himself being a member in good standing of the Loyal Order of Heathen -- about the idea of forwarding other people's e-mail around.
It is only in the interest of exploration and self-improvement that I have here in these threads posted communications from WAW -- and then only because of the anonymity. But OCF "knows" me, and I her, and I wonder how she would feel if she knew I was reading her words -- though I expect they have been selectively edited by WAW, "sanitized for my protection."
OCF had, at WAW's apparent request (one must infer from context), informed Mutual High School Friend of WAW's departure from the familial manse and the looming D.
OCF had also, and here I must guess (mind-read, sorry Gypsy) also at WAW's apparent request, solicited feedback from MHSF on Retrouvaille, which MHSF attended in the wake of the outing of Mr. MHSF's long-term A. Which feedback, having been solicited, was then forwarded to WAW.
Who, in turn, forwarded it to me without comment save for an "FYI."
For my information? Had I requested such information? Boy-o-boy, that Ol' Doc Ambien is a tricky sum-bum indeed, because I have no such recollection. Indeed, it was I who had forwarded WAW the Retrouvaille URL after she mentioned, several weeks ago, "some Catholic thing" that MHSF and Wayward had attended.
Ah, that must be it. Perhaps WAW is just closing the correspondence loop. She is nothing if not business-correct.
So I replied in a Smiley's Person-like way -- that is, in a way guaranteed to irritate Gypsy and mindblank and some of our other colleagues.
Herself, however, did not take the bait. She replied to the reply, seriously, and seemingly intrigued by the fact that, in the midst of serious financial challenges, Mr. and Mrs. MHSF are "pulling together in the stress" which, WAW concludes, "is an endorsement" of the program.
Hmmmmmm.
This requires some thought. And some mojo. And some distance and calm and quiet.
