We met up on Punt Rd, Richmond (hmm late January or early Feb 2000 it would have been) and my first impression was that he was going to be a funny guy. He had this mischievious smile and he joked nonstop and twisted my brain inside out all the way to his house. He was smart and he made me feel comfortable.
We hung out in his gorgeous house for awhile, discussing the peculiarities of one particular painting that we decided was a pond with eggs floating in it and masturbating guys among the eggs. The blobs still confused us. Were they limbs or mis-shapen eggs?
Anyway, to cut a long story short we went to pubs on and around Brunswick St and drank like fishes which created the following things: Chris embarrassing the shit out of me, being told to leave a bar cos they thought i was asleep, being John the Baptist-ised more than twice, hanging out in a lesbian bar, running, hiding, being carried upside down and basically being immature brats all along Brunswick st hehe!, being blinded by the 7-11 lights, me eventually passing out and swearing never to drink another vodka lemon lime and bitters again, puking in Chris' mum's gardens until 2pm the next day.
Chris is the most fun lover I've ever had. It was extremely cool that he was as into computers as I was too. We set up a LAN and did our nerdy shit without being hassled (hehe um well hassled sometimes but not hassled like we woulda been if our boyfriend/girlfriend wasn't into computers).
Chris reintroduced me to yum cha and computer games - which I haven't played (in such a full on obsession type of way) since I had my Commodore 64! He found the missing part of my Rubik's cube for my 21st birthday and for that I will be eternally grateful. I thought I had lost it forever. He moved me in ways I can't describe and overwhelmed me more times than i can count. "He has the most beautiful smile" I wrote in my diary 04/02/00. For awhile it was easy and fun and relaxed and good and we were in love.
Houses on fire can be dangerous as we found out. I believe I moved in with him too soon. I don't know if either of us were ready for such an intense committment, but it was difficult to 'tone it down' or make any changes so it went from troubled to shithouse to completely fucked. Some outside issues didn't help. A few times we grabbed on to whatever we had left but it seems we were fooling ourselves. Although it has ended on extremely bad terms now, i don't regret meeting up with Chris. I wish him the best of luck and happiness for the future, and I sincerely hope we can one day be friends again. Despite everything, he is A LOT of fun and is extremely sweet and I think he's the most beautiful person i've ever met. We simply are not compatible as a couple at this time in our lives.
