Trip Cancelled

Don’t worry, the title is just a mean joke to see if I can scare any nervousness out of Heather. Doubtful, but we’ll see.
 
But, no, after the last few months of (relatively mild) buildup, I’m actually heading to California on Saturday. Flight willing I’ll be getting there in the mid-afternoon, so we plan on roaming about San Francisco for a few hours while dealing with the fun initial awkwardness of meeting, which hopefully won’t even be that bad considering how much I’ve built it up and that Heather and I have basically been talking on the phone 24/7 the last few days in preparation, besides, our actual physical presence can’t be that different, can it?
 
Anyway, I’m inexpressibly excited, of course, being that I’m meeting the most amazing person I’ve ever come across in my life, something I hardly talk enough about on this diary. But she does mean a lot to me, the relationship means a lot to me; it really isn’t as vacuous as I know some of you imagine. It’s also been unbelievably good for me, and I am still admittedly a little intimidated by the meeting (I don’t want to lose what I have in the process of looking for something more, so to speak). But the intimidation has increasingly dissipated and been replaced with excitement over the past several months, and I really do think I’m ready to do this.
 
I’ll try to update this thing sometime during the 10 days I’m there. Wish me luck.