“The Women: A Primer”

I was reading back through some previous entries and realized I’d made an error—I’d used some proper names. Even though I don’t advertise this blog, it is public and you never know what might happen, so I’ve decided to go back through and eliminate those names. But how to know who it is in my life or from my past that I’m talking about? Feels very misogynist to come up with nicknames or labels or whatever, but I don’t see a better solution. Family is fine, I can just describe the relationship and have been. But for women? Let’s see if we can go reverse chronological here…

• The Goddess: the woman I’m currently dating (but for how much longer?? not long, I'm guessing). Nickname taken from her name which when I looked it up said that it’s the name of an ancient fertility/mother goddess (I think?)
• The Stalker: I don’t know if she’ll come up. We’d been communicating, talked about getting together, then abruptly I stopped hearing from her. Really don’t know why. We did have a spat where out of the blue she decided I was a horrible MAN and dumped a lot of shit on me. The story is a long one.
• The Actress: my most recent ex-girlfriend.
• The Engineer: this is more a joke to myself about my girlfriend from before, who had been an engineer but went on to make a massive career change and became a minister.
• The Phd: who wasn’t actually a PhD. That was the one I was so hopeful about, where everything looked so good on paper. Music interests in common, bodies REALLY liked each other. Still disappointed that didn’t work out.
• The Babygirl: wow. Yeah, I hope I don’t need to mention her again. The really young one. The way way way too young one.

So, okay, there’s a rundown of prominent figures from the last number of years who might come up. Any others we’re forgetting? Um, can you say YES. How about the ex-wives?

• ThePoorGal: Yeah, I think that will suffice for my second wife. I put her through hell.
• The CrazyCheatingBabyFactory: wife #1, from many years ago. She doesn’t come up very often.

I’ll come up with more nicknames as I need to, but that should be more than enough.Oh, but I also need to denote two other longtime friends:

• The Sistah: who lives over in San Francisco and is majorly into the Jesus stuff.
• The Priestess: who lives here in Sac and is the dark gothic pagan priestess.