My best month is the one when half of you have left the city
Posted as july_is_mine
- Looking for
- someone who is also here in the empty weeks and glad of it
- Experience
- Six years, two dynamics, both of them seasonal without meaning to be.
- Around
- the south west, Moscow
I work in a school. From the last week of June until the last week of August I have more free time than at any other point in my life, and everyone I might spend it with has gone out of town. Every year I watch the city empty and think, this is the year I do something about it, and every year I do not.
Thirty six, submissive, the south west, six years in. Two dynamics, one of two years, one of eight months. Both of them ran hot in autumn and went quiet in summer, which I now realise was not a coincidence but a pattern nobody named.
So this is me naming it. I am at my most available in exactly the weeks when this board goes silent, and if you are one of the people still in town, working through, hating the heat, we already have something in common that is more useful than a list of interests.
What I want is ordinary and long. Standing expectations, a check in that happens whether or not anything else does, and somebody who takes my time seriously enough to plan for it. In term time I am useless after seven in the evening and I am honest about that.
Not looking for anyone who wants intensity in short bursts and nothing in between. Not looking for a dynamic that lives entirely in messages. Not looking to be somebody's summer.