dinner

so tomorrow i work from 9-7, then hop a bus down to hyde park, which i'll be seeing for the first time since 2007. maybe early 2008. i'll be meeting a girl, we'll go for a walk, then back to her house to write about the experience. after that is when we'll exchange our first words, and then i'll make her dinner. i set up a menu, she bought the ingredients, and i'll be making soy sauce and brown sugar infused salmon fillets, lime & cilantro cauliflower salad, and baked-egg-avocados for the appetizer.

here's the catch - we've never met. we haven't even exchanged pictures. i found her on craigslist via a missed connection that wasn't about me, but it was so well-worded i sent her a message saying i hoped she was a writer, and that if the winter got too lonely i'd be happy to come cook her dinner. she accepted. the bit about the silent walk followed by a quiet moment of writing was her idea.

so, this has the potential to be either insanely romantic or amazingly disastrous. hyde park can be sketchy, but we're meeting near the lake, and i plan on pulling the kill switch if she starts leading me towards questionable areas. the intersection we're meeting at is a fairly open, public sort of one. she knows what i'll be wearing.

rachel. here's to adventure.