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creek-cryptid-deluxe · 1 year

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Fun facts about my partner (because it occurs to me that I've not really described him here beyond amazing & severely adhd riddled):

• he is about 5.5 ft tall (we wear the same clothes & shoe sizes; his students thought it was hilarious & absurd that he wore my converse high tops for 3 days when his pumas finally died) with brown hair streaked with gray that is just past his shoulders. He is the very definition of barrel chested & has a full beard (that's also streaked with gray). He has a deep gravely voice with a THICK Texas accent (think south dallas area because texas accents vary).

• he is covered in tattoos all of which are in black ink & all but 2 of which he did himself

• dude is an insanely talented artist but his preference is Turner-esque landscapes. Man can literally sketch or paint anything & is working on resurrecting his painting livestreams. He enjoys teaching and making art accessible to everyone & is currently a middle school art teacher.

• loves musical theater (he was singing songs from Chicago while feeding the cats this morning)

• massive history nerd

• Carrie Fisher was his 3rd cousin (even prior to knowing that, he was a star wars nerd)

• loves LOTR, hockey, Star Wars, a variety of video games & only OG Star Trek (he's currently playing a game where he's a shark with a jet pack & lasers??)

• loves fantasy football because it's all just statistics & competition but only agreed to be in his league because he was allowed to design his own team's logo/helmets. He never watches football nor has the desire to but is intensely competitive. (So competitive in fact that after watching Good Omens, I text him good news that next morning followed by a gif of "Can I get a Wahoo" & he lamented for a week about wanting to be the first to use that gif. Now 7 months later if I bring it up, he rants for 10 minutes.)

• used to play hockey as a goalie.

• loves his chickens... possibly more than me. Like if it came down to eating chickens or me for survival, I don't fancy my chances.

• spent his entire adult life married to 2 women (one right after the other) who were both basically the same abusive narcissist in different physical packages. Poor man still has ptsd nightmares & because he has kids with both we have to deal with both on the regular.

• has adhd so severe that even with medication it still borders on debilitating. Most websites, forms, and admin stuff frustrates him to the degree that he gives up almost immediately. Dyslexia doesn't help. Even before we dated, I was his admin. I came over to help him sign up for insurance & such all the time.

• that last fact makes him react with awe, terror, & the conviction that I'm magic due to the sheer volume of shit I can accomplish & the fact that I generally know where everything is at any given moment. I am the keeper of the stuff.

• he is the most genuinely kind human i know. I've seen him run across the creek behind our house to help people he has never spoken to without a moment of hesitation.

• he is theatrical & flamboyant enough that despite knowing he has kids & a female life partner, his students still openly ponder if he is gay. This isn't helped by things he says. (A student is acting afool & so he says he will become besties with their mom. Kid replies that mom is married. He comes back with "So? I'll be besties with him too. Heck I'll kiss your dad if it results in you doing your actual work. I don't care.")

• is one of those rare teachers that genuinely cares. Like he always provides a refuge, a safe space, & snacks at this middle school in a lower income area. He legit spent 3 days sobbing when the dickhead principal didn't renew his contract because he "doesn't want to leave his kids". The kids found out, staged a walk out protest. He heard about it when it was happening because nobody could break it up, went out there & told them all that he appreciated the thought behind it but what he really wanted was for them to go back to class. They all immediately lined up to hug him & then went to class because he has that level of respect & pull with them. This didn't help his principal's unfounded & intense dislike of my partner.

• he can fix nearly anything but is somehow always floored by my ability to fix or build things. (I watched him rebuild our washing machine when it went on the fritz but he is stunned by my changing out shower heads and skim coating walls and removing shitty backsplash tiles/adhesives or building a cat enclosure) He claims that my smattering of skills makes him want to learn a bunch of those skillsets to "catch up" but that by the time he does, my skill will have probably progressed further in that area. He really enjoys my particular art/craft style because it's so different from what he does & it inspires him.

• loves to be out in nature but is often amused & a bit confused about my passionate rants regarding plant life. (Fucking invasive ass chinese privet has taken over wooded areas. Fuck that noise.) He is impressed by my vast botanical knowledge & likes that when we go out to get reference shots for his paintings, I'm drawn to different perspectives in the same area because it makes him look at things differently.

• will beat a joke/bit into the ground. (He can't sleep in clothes lest he flop around like a tuna in a net at 3 am. However for the last month every time I remind him to take off his pants he says "But [Dr M], I get hot & the pants wick the sweat..." Every. Fucking. Night. If i hear the phrase 'wicks the sweat' one more time I will lose it. He also referred to The Cranberries as 'Sheryl Crow' last night & I nearly beat him to death with a chunk of granite.)

• has an amazing smile that's contagious so it's hard to commit acts of violence during said bits because of the glee on his face.

• is absolutely absurd but with a deadpan/dry delivery that makes that absurd thing semi-belivable. Like when he was on leave from work & when he came back told each class something new about where he was. He can improv absurdities so well.

There's probably far far more but I'm not fully caffeine yet so. That's what you get.

#life with l #the Eternal Slumber Party

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