Every Friday I send out a real love letter that I’ve transcribed from a stack I bought at the flea market. Missed one? Check the chronological list.
September 22, 1961
Cont. immediately from last week’s letter…
Anyway, things are looking brighter. Both of my instructors seem, at first impression, to be very good. Both know how to conduct interesting and, for once, informative, classes. There are things to be learned in their classes, which do not come just or more clearly from the text.
This letter, as you can readily see, has been a long time in the making. I have decided to finish it before it never does get in the mail. Might turn into a long story or a short novel or a long novel, even, might even be a bestseller. Torn twice, once in both directions, it could be that kind of bestseller but several tissue companies already have that situation well in hand.
💩
I still haven’t adjusted to your being gone. I guess I never will. Whenever I’m alone, at least without someone I know, I feel very lonely. Consequently, I try to avoid being alone like it was poison.
This is fascinating, given how difficult he found school. I honestly just assumed he was a misanthrope for a whole year.
But I don’t forget. Instead, I just keep myself in a good frame of mind and look forward to the next time we see one another. That will be soon, like next week, I hope. Next week is the first football weekend, no? Anyway, the first one is the weekend. More later on that, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Enclosed is something to brighten up those long nights.
Ooh la la! No idea what this was, probably not nudes. There’s nothing in the envelope but the letter.
And now to start to the letter: the previous material has been essentially preliminary. Now I shall concern myself with writing a letter which answers your letters and provides more “stimulating” reading. (I’ll try, anyway).
I’m guessing this all sounds much more suggestive than any of it will turn out to be!
Talk about people with ideal schedules. You should be thanking your lucky stars. My first registration took a day and a half, and I had a Saturday class at 8 a.m. and spent my Friday nights trying to sleep in what resembled the Union Stockyards at slaughter time in order to stay awake the next morning and not sleep through my alarm. All in all, I cut it 50% of the time for one reason or another (50% of the Sat. meetings, that is). No classes Friday morning is decidedly desirable as it makes going home for weekends or preparing for football weekends absolutely feasible.
Man, I do feel for him. On some level, it must be hard to see her going to the school he flunked right out of even if he is happy to be home with his colitis.
You are the sweetest girl in the world!
After drooling over your schedule awhile, I found two of the best letters I have ever received. And they came at a most useful time as they completely revised my spirits, and apparently changed my luck. Everything took a turn for the better.
Would give anything for her letters!
I’m glad you like your roommate so well, because it will make the whole experience of college life so much more enjoyable. The first semester will be the foundation for all future semesters at a school and it’s a good idea to have all factors ideal. Judging from your schedule and roommate you have it knocked.
My classes:
Psychology 201 — Monday, Thursday: 6:45-8:00
Philosophy 261 — Wednesday: 6:20-9:00
I don’t eat supper til 10 p.m. three days a week. Happy thought. Also, I have from 5:00 p.m. til class starts to while away around the campus. This week I’ve done it in the Commons (like the MRH Canteen) trying to study. I fall asleep in 15 mins. In the morning, all day, until about 8:00 p.m. I can fall asleep without trying. As a matter of fact, I often can’t even fight myself awake on the train, bus or in the commons. But after 8 pm. even if I do manage to stay awake and on the go all day, I can’t fall asleep. Frustrating to say the least. Just a crazy mixed-up rebel, that’s what I am.
But I’m happy, after a fashion.
Right now, I’m listening to the recording of the Percy Faith album of yours that I recorded and thinking of the wonderful summer and before that spring and before that fall that we spent together. It all seems to have gone by so fast and is years ago and so many things have happened. Just like this last week. It seems like last Monday is in the distant past and yet the week has bone by before I knew it.
Imagine this being the soundtrack of your blossoming romance? I wonder if he recorded her record on his reel-to-reel?
I don’t understand program changes having to be approved by anyone. During registration I registered in anything I could get. The deans were there — sometimes — for advice, but that’s all the old parasites ever did. But Botany’s not so bad.
A urinal. That will be the subject of the forthcoming letter. Until then, no comment.
What in the world.
My devious mind is working on the ID. I have an idea which may work very effectively. It amounts to covering her signature and other pertinent data with my name and a men’s residence hall name with a heavy blank ink pen, probably with India Ink. So long as the ink covers all lines, the signature won’t show. Thank the lord for ball-point pens. Other plans are possible. They don’t usually check the signature anyway because it takes extra time and time is generally very important as you know from past experience.
Is this about him sneaking into her dorm? I’m lost.
Let me know how your first week of classes were. They probably weren’t as bas ad you anticipated. The formula is work steadily when you work and play hard when you play. Allow a certain amount of time for breaks, putting in at times when studying would be difficult anyway, set up a routine and stay with it. Every other weekend is a football weekend, so try to leave them open in your routine and make the weekends in between your work weekends. Football weekends are a very hard time to study, both from the psychological and environmental standpoint. You won’t have any trouble! You may find plant life very interesting, and zoology can come later anyway. I’ll mail you a tree.
What?
I will have fun writing term papers. Maybe not, however, the Philosophy paper is pretty definite. He said if we don’t cover Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito we will write a term paper on them. And it is not likely that we will cover them in class since we have a book entitled Introduction to Aristotle as well as The Republic and Timaeus which should be wild.
I like both the psych and philosophy and after only a week I have found an amazing amount of correlation between them. Naturally, it was the psychology of the philosopher that determines the philosophy and in turn the philosophy which influences the psyche.
Is he getting high? This is starting to sound like classic stoned college boyfriend chatter.
Both speak of a methodology, and both have similar division of the types of methodologies or observations. One explains the other, and I think that is a very good idea to take them concurrently.
I have a short exam coming up in Psych. One of those deals for two-way evaluations between student and instructor. Our instructor fortunately is not too crazy about tests. He doesn’t like to grade them.
Darling, take care of yourself and don’t feel too lonely. Time passes pretty quickly really, when you’re busy and we aren’t too far away from one another. I should be able to get down there pretty often. And remember, no matter what, I still love you. And you have my love with you at all times. It’s yours and so we’re never really apart. Sweet dreams, sweetheart, and sleep tight. Keep up the good work and keep your chin up.
Love and more love ad infinitum,
Tiger
P.S. Let me know about next weekend as soon as possible so I can make the necessary arrangements. I’m not home Monday, Wednesday or Thursday and don’t have much time in between.
Auf weidershehn.
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That's wild! I actually kind of like Percy Faith.
If my bf wrote me a letter that boring with the minutia of his day including his exact schedule, I would break up with him. He won't be able to support her with his psych and philisophy skills!