I had an unremarkable lunch with H and D. I thought I would be a little late arriving at the school, so I tried to ring H on his cell phone to warn him, but it was not reachable. Now, if it had been the other way around, that he couldn't reach me, I would have got a long angry lecture about how I *never* have my phone on, blah blah blah. When I arrived just a little late, H was not there yet... When he turned up I said I had tried to contact him but couldn't, and he just said, oh, I left the phone at home! And I said, oh, back.

Lunch was fairly unremarkable - H started to tell a story with the facts all wrong, and I pointed out the impossibility of it... (like Wendy's H all over the place with his facts).

H was friendly enough, but distant. I observed him this lunch, like an experiment. He is so much the person he ever was - with his latest obsession de jour, his emphatic statements, his absolutism (yet he accuses me of being a perfectionist, which I am to a large extent)...

He showed off his new pipe.

He as usual kissed me goodbye, this time in his 'controlling' way - gripping me firmly by the shoulders and planting his lips well away from my mouth, nearer my ear. I use his kissing technique as a temperature check ! H was DISTANT today!!

As D dawdled on the way back, I said briskly, I have to run, I'll be off now, see ya! And was off.

Livnlearn

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates