SB @ Guthrie's

SB @ Guthrie's, originally uploaded by RumAli.

I had a reunion with my ex-girlfriend Sarah Burgundy yesterday. We went out for one incredible summer in 1998, before she moved to San Francisco and I moved to Milwaukee. We tried to do the "long distance thing" but that didn't work out.

The reunion was utterly lovely, and now I'm listening to all the songs that I wrote about her (basically at least half of the Team Mucilani ouevre) and feeling teary and nostalgic. After the sourness of a break-up, albeit one mandated by our distance apart, all the good parts of our relatioship remain. Too many to list, but it's a fun thing to do, to sit here and remember certain specific things and relishing in my memory of it.

The relationship, brief as it was, really holds up. With apologies to the people that I've dated in Milwaukee, and with understanding my pointed state of mind, it's not too far-fetched to say that "nothing compares." (Which is ridiculous, I know.) We were able to like each other in the ways that we liked to like other people, which made things very easy.

She's going to her third year in law school in the West Coast, and I'm about to buy a house in Milwaukee.