From: jturner@lonestar.utsa.edu (John M. Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Hi all!  Did anyone notice I was gone?
Date: 27 Jul 92 06:02:55 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

jmalone@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Malone) inquires:
>>  One lesson I've learned from traveling to the chats:  Expect the unexpected.
>>(see .sig file below...)
>
>Ok, J.T., fess up.  You gotta girl?  ARCminds want to know....
Okay, okay, I'll talk! (gee, that was too easy *grin*)
everybody take a DEEP breath! ...

After my own 14 hour death drive from DC to Indiana (next time, the bus...) and
spending the night with Lis and Q (Hi Lis! *hug*), I drove down to 
Indianapolis to catch my plane home.  My journey home was on 3 different
planes.  The first flight was in a prop job to Memphis, in which I sat
alone in the row.  While in Memphis, my next plane was removed from
service due to hydraulic problems, but the airline found another plane
to get us on the Dallas for the second leg.  I sat alone again on this 
flight too.  At this point, I was thinking to myself: "Next time, I ask
the travel agent to sit me next to a beautiful woman!"  I landed in Dallas
(with the rest of the plane), with 15 minutes to catch my last plane to 
San Antonio.  I managed to get on with 5 minutes to spare.  As I dragged
my carry-on stuff down the aisle, I noticed a very beautiful woman sitting
in the window seat next to mine.  Normally, I have a very hard time talking
to other people, especially women, because I am very shy.  However, I 
said "Hello", and we immediately started talking to each other about
ourselves, our families, our interests, etc. etc.  Before we took off, I
learned that we were both Catholic, we both have the same number of siblings
and that we both like to read "Life in Hell" (rather strange conversation
topics in the space of 5 minutes, but what the hey...)  She was headed
to San Antonio for an endocrinologists meeting to present a paper.
As the plane flight proceeded to San Antonio (I don't think either of us
noticed the plane taking off *grin*) we continued to talk about each other.
She was going to be in town for only a short time, one day to fly in, one
day to present, and one day to fly back.  I asked if she would like to have
dinner while she was in town.  She accepted, and we tentatively scheduled
to get together on her full day in town.  We didn't get together for dinner,
because she was dragged into a meeting with some other people with the 
conference, but she did call me up and gave me her address and phone number
back home.  We have been conversing about every other night since.  It turns
out that we are the same age, have very similar backgrounds, and share a lot
of things in common.  It seems almost magical, how easily she and I understand
one another.  She is similar to me, in that she is also shy when it comes
to talking with other people (other than professionally).
Anyhow, to make a long story short (too late *grin*), she and I have gone
from not knowing about one another to being very close, all in the space
of a few short weeks.  So now, I find myself in an LDR.  We are planning to
get together up there sometime in October, when she has some time off, and 
probably over the holidays down here.

What the future holds in store for us, is anybody's guess....

So now what do I do?

Yours in dizzy happiness and confusion
JT (aka John Turner)
Hopeless Romantic
--
jturner@lonestar.utsa.edu                           John "J.T." Turner
Suddenly, the wheels are in motion
and I am ready to sail any ocean
Suddenly, I don't need the answers
and I am ready to take all my chances with you