RM and I haven't spoken to each other since she got sick and cancelled our date. I got sick that week myself. Anyway, it's not a stretch to say that whatever might have happened with RM is now not on, and it's for the best.

I have now met up with the internet dating site woman, whom hereafter shall be called Shy Chef. She turned out to be quite amazing, and I am having a great time with her. We went to a concert on Friday and to the Art Gallery yesterday.

The fundamental, marked difference between how I felt about Russian Microbiologist and how I feel about Shy Chef are extremely apparent. In my previous diary I talked about how I was concerned that I didn't feel as strongly as I knew I could have felt for RM, given the amount of time I had spent with her. The opposite is true of SC. I have only met her twice but I can't stop thinking about this woman. I really don't want to fuck it up. I'm almost glad that I'm going out of town for a couple of weeks, as it will give me some time to cool off a bit. I'm assuming that cooling off is a good thing, but I feel like I'm counting down the minutes until I get to see her again and I don't want to lose that feeling either. She's intelligent, mysterious, and playful. I'm pretty sure her smile could stop a war.

Google "Rodney Graham". He had an exhibition at the Art Gallery and it was neat. His works are in galleries all over the world, including London, and they might be worth a look. He's a multimedia artist who takes pictures, makes music and movies, and even writes books. He music is neat, his movies are novel, his pictures are clever, and his books are strange self- and pop- referential works.

Anyway, that's all for now.