Eeeeeee! I'm sooo happy right now! I feel like shrieking at the top of my lungs and then running around in circles but that might freak the neighbors out. What could make me feel like such a silly school girl? FC! And none other!
OK remember how a certain person at Oxford would annoy everyone by saying "He's the sweetest boy in the whole wide world!"? Well, I'm not there yet, but...ahem...
Anyway, FC excites me (emotionally, not in a gross way!) over a cold computer more than most guys do face to face. I squeal and do all kinds of nutty embarrassing things that none of you want to hear about. But anyway, I have to vent my girl emotions on you all because otherwise I'll explode.
So, FC is sweet and cute and you already know that because I rant about it all the time; but he is more stressed than I've ever known him to be. He and 5 other Nigerian students at his university are working together to organize a society for engineering students and it's a real drain on him, exciting as it also is. But here is the thing: he was telling me about tracking the package he sent me (yay!) when he ALSO mentioned that his brother (the one who wants me but whom I don't like) was visiting when he mailed the thing so the BROTHER added a few lines to a note or something inside! Urgh! This sounds innocent to you all, but really, over the past 2 years I've learned that this brother, as FC's elder, does make it hard for FC to really see me in a non-friendship way. All was cool, then one day FC said, "I've told my family about you, here meet my brother who's a med student...." and I said "Sure." Then, suddenly FC was going out of his way to call me a friend and the brother was making his moves. (Not in a gross way, these people are traditional, but it was obvious he was thinking about stuff....)
That's when I blew up at FC over Christmas. So that's the history of the thing and why I get weird when FC mentions his brother to me. He must know how his brother feels! :(
But, that aside, my whole day is prettier now that I've finally communicated with him again. I know it sounds paranoid that I get so worried about him living over there, but it does seem like every time I turn on the news they're mentioing some crazy thing about Nigeria. :(
Oh, and this is sign #251 why FC and I are "meant to be married": He and I both started learning Church Latin around the same time. Coincidence? Whatever! It's so obvious that he and I are going to get married with 12 children. Any day now really. :)
Oh yeah, and one of my close friends is marrying a guy from Cameroon (a country bordering Nigeria) so that seals the deal right there. Clear as can be, folks!
Oh, one funny/ironic thing that happened when I was talking to him online. We have to use yahoo messenger because he doesn't have AIM and on there you can choose these random cutesy backdrops for the messenger. This time I chose one called "Love Me, Love Me Not." And this CONTRACEPTION AD pops up! That was the backdrop--an ad for the Pill! And I couldn't figure out how to change it, so I kept apologizing and he said, "No, it's pretty," because it had a flower on it. But then I told him what it was and finally I got it off. It's ironic because he and I are big on the whole no sex and even with sex in marriage no contraception thing! :) Ha! Just imagine me freaking out and trying to get rid of it and him thinking it was a nice little flower scene. Ah, I guess you'd have to be there to appreciate the fullness of the comedy, but trust me.