...Um. Hi again. ^_^;
I feel a little bit bad that I just disappeared out of the blue on you all. I was all excited about this project but then, just stopped posting. I think I owe you an explanation.
A novel-writer once told me, years ago, that life comes before art. I've never forgotten that. And what happened this summer was very much a "get up and experience life!" kind of thing.
I expected to spend my summer indoors with the blinds drawn, churning out comics. Instead I found myself outside, in the blazing sunlight, strolling through beaches and forests and exploring my own city and having a huge amount of fun, for the first time with a fun and happy guy.
Scott. ;D
And I don't regret a minute of how the summer was spent.
How we could even come together at all is a strange and unlikely story. He's from Texas, and I'm from Australia. In May last year, we met for the first time in Scotland. We were both only there for a couple days or so, on our holidays. And we met each other for one day. I was living in London at the time and took a short trip up to Edinburgh, and he was doing a quick 2-week tour of Europe.
So it just happened that we were both on a walking tour of Edinburgh. And the tour guide was telling the group about the local custom of spitting on a stone heart that was on the ground - the
Midlothian Heart. Our guide said it was good luck to do this, and encouraged us tourists to embrace this local tradition and let the spit fly. Scott spat on it right away. I took like a run up and spat a big shiny streak onto the heart. No one else in the group was up for spitting on it. And Scott came up to me and was like, "brofist for being the only two to spit on the heart!"
And that's how it started. I'm not kidding you.
After the tour, the group had lunch together and him and I were sitting next to each other and eating haggis and talking about things. And in the conversation we found out that we were both really passionate about God. It was a good convo, and we hung out a bit longer afterwards to see some more things in Edinburgh that day. Then we swapped email addresses and waved goodbye.
I returned to Melbourne, Australia. He went back to Texas, and then started his first engineering job in Mexico. Over the next few months we sent emails to each other. Loong emails. And we chatted on facebook chat too. For some reason, idk why, we had this tendency to start talking about really personal things. xD Somewhere in the course of all this, we developed a mutual crush. And at the start of December I told him straightforwardly about how I felt, and what we could possibly do about it.
We considered the idea of starting a long distance relationship. He was very surprised that I would even suggest that as an option, and I was very surprised that he would be so up for it. But after much consideration, we agreed on these terms: that it would be
nuts for us to start a long distance relationship after having only met each other in person for one day in Scotland -- BUT if we managed to meet up in person somehow, if at some point in life we were living near each other or could take holiday time to meet up, then we could work it out from there.
In early January we were in a bit of an uncomfy in-between state. :/ We liked each other, but since nothing's official, we were both fair game, so to speak. And that was kind of hard. And there was no telling if we would ever meet up at all. But then Scott found a window of time where he could take time off work and fly to Australia during this summer before my uni started up and we could hang out and swim with seals and go to church together and walk on beaches and explore and talk and yayyy
So. He did. He actually flew halfway around the world, like a 30 hour flight, just to hang out.
And it was awesome.
So awesome that we met and sorted out where we stand. And after he'd gone back to Mexico, he actually sent me 12 red roses on Valentines Day!
Life is good. Even though he's now back in Mexico and I'm in Melbourne and we're doing uber long distance and it was the first time I ever held a guy's hand let alone have a bf let alone a long distance bf, life is good. The summer was totally worth spending out in the sun with him.
And now uni has started again, and that's keeping me really busy with a 15,000 word thesis to write by October. But uni is awesome too.
So the comic is pretty much scrapped for now. But yeah, I wanted to tell you why. And at least you get one more comic out of me this summer!! hahaha
NTWF. ^_^ I know I don't post here much nowadays but you've always been such a great support, such a nice place to just go back and browse through to see what's going on. So happy for everything, and I hope you're happy with your lives too.
