Cuddle Potential

Whitney:
I'm trying really hard not to run out of steam. A four-date week then a five-date week during my first two weeks at work made for a bit of exhaustion. However, I must say that I'm enjoying this lightness in meeting people, where no one is trying to squeeze anyone else into the mold of their ideal human partner, whether that partnership is sexual, intellectual, short-lived or activity-based. My expectations have fallen away. I never meant to have any in the first place. I've found a comfortable pace in non-definition, where boundaries are illuminated through scheduled windows of interaction consisting of a beginning, middle, and end. Transitions between the three are marked awkwardly or exquisitely, and the ends differ from the beginnings in their softened edges.

Among the choices of interaction-type (aka, "relationship", "dating", "friends", "gettin' some") should be "casual cuddling". I know you can't do that with just anyone, but damn, it feels good. Maybe I need to get on craigslist. I hear they sponsor some great impromptu cuddle sessions. And while I search for casual cuddles, I'm going to become really buff, really good at wine-tasting, really good at making jewelry, really good at yoga, and smooth as hell at removing myself from no-cuddle-potential dating scenarios.