Not thinking, still Aug. 31, 2010

I don't even know his last name. He didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. My earliest impression of him was simply that he was kind, later to be appended with "hospitable" and "considerate," then "intelligent" and "articulate," "ambitious," "wise," "honest." It was like blowing up an inflatable doll that just stretched and stretched and stretched until it no longer resembles the sickly, plastic-thin rubber heap it was (and still is, just pumped full of hot air).