As You know, I'm not one to make friends so much. I tend to avoid interactions with new people, say in my Norwegian class or at hiphop or whatever. I quite civilly respond to outreach, but I'm not interested in forming new connections and I'm very effective at maintaining distance. And I seldom, given my lifestyle, am forced into interactions with anyone with any regularity. I have an erratic schedule of contacts*.

So it's been a while since I've gone through the process of getting to know someone. I guess most recently would be the people who used to share a room with me at work with whom I went through this process about 4 years ago, and even that was a sort of unregulated gradual thing wherein I resisted and never did anything active to form these connections; but once they were formed, from casual but regular interactions, then I started the work of relationship maintenance--which is actually something I do quite well. So now, despite the current lack of daily interactions these are connections I'm sure of.

(IMPLICIT MESSAGE: I'm a lot of work at first, but once I commit I'm committed. As K has said before, and not only to himself, maybe this isn't such a good system.)

So, anyway, meeting with the PT twice a week is a rare case. It turns out to be quite strangely intimate.

* this, by the way, totally sucks.