In recent developments

Woke up. Thought immediately of The Newest Development. I don't want to liken it to anything, it was its own thing, it had its own moments, but fine, I'll say it: it was a lot like the first date with The Doctor. The Doctor who is a really good guy, who is chivalrous and calls when he says he will and doesn't want to play games (despite me having a mild panic attack daily over him and what'shedoing what'shethinking whyhasn'thecalled).

This new guy, our first date, he held my hand and walked me home. And he's funny. He kept up with my strange humor and winding tangents. Thinking about it, me thinking about my latest love interests, walking to this date with this new man, I was thinking of logic versus spark. It's the spark I want, it's the spark that I feel is necessary, that I had with The Bartender, but with The Bartender, I fear that's all we would have had, no common ground except sometimes: daydrinking. (Which isn't really a foundational common ground if we're splitting hairs here.) So now I'm trying not to focus so much on some damn magical spark and instead on humor, words, attraction, goals. What a novel idea!