An e-mail

My dearest H,

How are you? I’m doing well. My Americorps program ends on the 17th and it’s been pretty great. I just spent two days in the Adirondacks and it didn’t get above 20 degrees F, the whole time but we got to stay in an actual cabin so that was good. I’m missing my program graduation day to have ACL surgery (did I mention I tore my ACL? My right ACL, which is the opposite ACL to the left ACL which I tore in high school. It’s pretty common that when a person tears one ACL, they tear the other one. So anyway, I’m missing my program graduation but I’m glad I’m having the surgery I need. I’m still dating that boy T (remember him?) and I don’t know if I told you about the three way we had at Labor Day Dawn Dance but I had a three way at Labor day dawn dance with this lovely young lady named A. So A and I have been dating T and a throuple for two months and it’s been great. Lots of sex and three ways. And we had . . . an orgy, I guess? I mean, there were five of us, three of us being me, T, and A. And then T’s friends S and C kind of just invited the three of us to have sex with the two of them, and like the three of us are poly and just fuck whoever we want to (time permitting, there are only so many hours in a day) but they only fuck each other and other people with each other. So, like, for them, it was swinging and like, for us it was an orgy. I guess. It was fun though. And A and I went to this queer dance camp weekend in Western Massachusetts and it was pretty epic and there was a sweatlodge and then we went skinny dipping in the lake and the music was awesome and the dancing was awesome and I kind of . . . met myself? Like, there was this super queer masc-presenting dancer named Nate and he was super similar to me and then we had sex. . . which is something I always thought would happen if I ever met myself. It was pretty good, but he like, wasn’t that good at communication and also thought that because I hooked up with him, that meant he was like, then in a relationship with me and A, which is, obviously not how any of the poly thing that we’re doing works but, it resolved fine so I’m fine. After the program I’ll be home in Albany for a while while I recover. I’m not 100% sure what I’m going to be doing after my surgery but I have a few things lined up. I’m not really ready to go back to school but I applied to Hampshire College in Amherst for spring semester. I’m looking at a job with the SCA as an environmental educator down in NYC (which would be pretty fucking awesome!) and there’s actually a job opening at Five Rivers (you know, the Five Rivers down the road in Delmar) that I would really like. So, that might be a thing. Please write me back, even if it’s just a simple “hello”. You definately don’t need to return the essay. I miss you and I hope you’re on track to graduate and I think you’re a badass multi-talented lady. Let me know how your love life is, how you’re social life is, how your academic and professional life is. Or not. Just say hi. I’d love to talk sometime next week. Also, are you coming to Albany for thanksgiving. I’ll be on the couch on pain meds, so if that sounds like your idea of a good time, I’d love to see you. I miss you dearly and often think fondly of you.

Best regards,

Monya