As you may have seen, I changed my profile picture.  “Who is this irresistable creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?”
This lovely lady would be Elise.  We were in a few classes together at Potsdam, but didn’t really know each other as both of us were in other relationships.  A year past from my graduating Potsdam and I find myself back in Watertown working with one of my best friends while my last relationship falls apart.  Come June I notice that Elise’s Facebook page now lists her as single (gotta love the internet).  I, curiouser and curiouser, ask what happened.  She tells me things, I tell her things about my life, and we decide to be good friends to each other while we go through miserable break ups.  Somewhere along the way we made a pact to never let anyone hurt the other one.  We both made bad choices over who we thought had next.  I, being stupid, kept saying that her and I should date only to later change my mind.  This drove her nuts (YAR!).  Then one Sunday I realized that this girl has everything I could want in a woman.  For pete’s sake she has Sin City and V for Vendetta graphic novels in her room.  Plans were made for me to go see her in Rome the weekend of the 25th.  However, Cora (you know, the other great love of my life) has her baby shower that weekend.  Hmmm.  Decisions decisions.  Then a plan was hatched to surprise Elise on her birthday, this past weekend.  I had Saturday Sunday and Monday off, and had just been paid on Friday.  I spent Saturday sending her clues and pictures through text messages to see if she could guess what she was getting for her birthday.  When I sent a picture of Carousel Mall she started to get mad.  “You’re so close, why are you buying me something there when you could just come see me?”  A little after 5pm her roommate/cousin Jess (a wonderful girl as well) picked me up in Rome to take me to their apartment.  I start texting Elise “I get to see you in 14 days”, “13 days”, “12 days”, and so on.  She starts to get excited.  Finally I send her a picture of Jess and write, “Jess says hi.”  We pull up to the apartment and I haven’t even walked in the door before she runs downstairs and throws herself at me.
From there I met the rest of her family, some friends too.  We watched Home Movies (Rabbit troop!), Clone High, and Buffy the Musical.  We played music for each other, and bought books.  Then in the hours before I left we curled up on the couch and watched Family Guy, happy that both of us were getting the references.
Sure there’s a couple things I don’t like.  We don’t live in the same city for one.  For two, she’s never watched Goonies.  But she is willing to watch that, and willing to watch wrestling with me.  As long as I watch Battlestar Galactica with her.
Next visit will probably be before my birthday.  I hope you all like her.