pines of rome is the friggin' BOMB!!! I got to play it last year and got goosebumps all over at the end. I really hope you get to see that together!! But if he doesn't want to go for some reason I think you should just grab another friend and get Rossini and cake ANYWAY. You see what I mean?
I have two random thoughts about the email--one is, is there any chance he would look at this as "julia's trying to turn this into a longer event than I wanted, by doing cake + concert when I am only up for cake?" Or, total opposite, what if he really wants to see you on two occasions, the cake occasion & the concert occaision, and this would be depriving him of julia time? also I don't think you need to justify the plan TWICE (the cake place is close to south ken AND he is new at his work). It's like you're trying too hard.
OK, come to think of it, here's a possible rewrite, though you'll probably need to re-work it to make it sound less American:
Hiya!
How's things? Hey, I noticed the Pines of Rome (!!!!!!!!!) is on the proms program for Thursday the 6th August at 7.30, along with some good Rossini and Mendelssohn. How about grabbing cake after work at the place at South Ken and then queing for tickets?
Julia
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just two quick quick thoughts -- I am so excited that you'd want to try a yoga styles exchange! Anusara is like, you can start wherever you are. There are people in class who are young, old, stiff guys who need to work on flexibility, flexible ladies who need to work on strength, skinny people, round people, everyone. So I am SURE you could handle it!! It is like, challenging, but you can start wherever you're at, and keep challenging yourself for the rest of your life, joyfully!
Also, I feel relieved to hear from Jody via you that the hardest thing is going from stage 1 reducing anger to stage 2 friendship. What a relief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Something hard is behind me!!!
Thank you for wondering about me. There have been some interesting baby steps in my sitch, I should start a new thread soon. I talked to B last night for almost 2 hours about my future, etc, he was very supportive. More later...
Let us know how it goes with the email!! And the rossini and cake !! LOVE T
