January 18, 2014

Alex is visiting from Paris. I LOVE HIM! He was so good to me during the Kosei nightmare… always willing to accompany me anywhere, at any time… even during my very odd hours. And I definitely kept odd hours. In an effort to speak to Jason more, I kept my body clock in the Central time zone the entire time I was in France. Puppy love!

I have had a couple of bothersome reality checks while spending time here with Alex. He is black and Filipino and I’m white. We have been alone for the most part so to onlookers I suppose we look like a couple. There have been a lot of nasty looks and several very racist, very derogatory comments about us as a “couple”. Its been really surprising. I’ve never been subjected to anything like that at all. When he and I were in France nobody ever made a remark like that. It’s bothersome. I may not have been as surprised if it had happened in AR, but it wasn’t. It was in CO and NYC. Really strange.

Simrit has been really weird since Alex got here. I think there’s a lot more unresolved post-relationship issues between them than I realized.