Journal Entry
May 13, 1995

Larry and Jullie at Dumbarton Oaks

Tute

Today was a day for Julie and I, at least mostly.  I got up around 8:30am must to my dismay.  I had want to sleep as late as I wanted but Tute did his usual and woke me up at around 6:30.  I tried to go back to sleep but Tute would either meow or walk across me every 15 to 20 minutes.  Also we had the window open, great weather for sleeping, but the neighbor was outside in the parking lot around 7:30 talking loudly.  I was extra tired from and intense week, as I started to say, and from playing racket ball for two hours on Friday night.  I had a good night at racket ball.  I had Alex down 7 to 1 and then 10 to 8.  I lost but this was the best ever I have played against Alex, an A player.  I won an additional 4 games against other B players. 

I got up around 8:45, ate breakfast and then called into work to see what was going on.  I expected Norm to be working and sure enough he was in.  I talked to him briefly and told him I would be at work in 1/2 hour or so.  I ate breakfast, cleaned up and went into work.  Julie was still sleeping when I left.  Lucky her.  At work I review the status of things helped lave and but optical platters in the system and check things out.  Everything seemed relative normal so I called Jule around 11:30 and we planned to meet a her work, Alternative House, to drop her car off and then go int to George Town for lunch.

It was a beautiful day.  Sunny, warm but not overly so, nice gentle wind, just a perfect day.  We met and went into Georgetown.  It couldn’t have been better.  We found a parking place right away, walked a short distance to the restaurant and sat outside.  Lunch was good although Julie ordered crab quiche which she didn’t like and sent it back.  I was a little irritate but tried to not let it show.  Julie ordered food many times and found she didn’t like it and sent it back particularly quiche.  This used to bother me a lot but I gotten somewhat used to it and now it only bothers me a little.  After all I get my food, which is fine, she sends hers back and then she has to re-order.  By the time she gets her food I am usually completely done and then I have to wait for her to finish hers.  Kind of irritating but I have found this is much better than her getting food she doesn’t like.   She did then get a dish that was very good and we were in no hurry so it all turned out good in the end.

We then walked to Georgetown mall and had an iced coffee.  I don’t usually like coffee but this was very good, so we shared a large one.  After walking back to the car we drove up to Dumbarton Oaks and again found a parking space right away.  SUPER.  We then spend a wonderful couple of hours walking around Dumbarton, hand in hand and being very close.  I hadn’t felt that close to Julie in a while.  We walked hand in hand, kissed, touched and generally I felt very close to her.  I remembered the time several years ago, one hot summer day we went to Dumbarton when there was no one else there.  We found a quite spot and made love on one of the benches.  I have found memories of Dumbarton.

After Dumbarton we went down W street (actually Wisconsin) and went into an ice cream store and had mint chocolate chip ice cream.  It was great.

We then went down to the mall to a concert at Smithsonian.  It was supposed to be a flute concert, but it also had drums and piano.  It as Ok but not as good as I had hoped but I was a good way to spend the evening.  Unfortunately, Julie said she would work at Alternative House at 7:30 so we had to leave the concert early, after the second movement of the last piece.   And it was the best peace.  I wasn’t happy about it, but I understood she had committed to it.  After such a wonderful day and feeling so close to Julie I want to only come home and make love to her.

I dropped her off at Alternative House and then came home.  I stopped on the way home at the grocery store and bought a bottle of wine, some bread, lunch meat, and some buffalo wings for dinner.  After a couple of glasses of wine and dinner I now sit here thinking about the day and how beautiful it was and decided to write.

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