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Date Posted: Thu, Aug 16 2007, 8:50pm PDT
Author: Aiden
Subject:
Go on and close the curtains
'Cause all we need is candle light
You and me and a bottle of wine
Boing to hold you tonight

It had been nearly a year since he had set foot on the university grounds - too long on one hand, yet not nearly long enough on the other. When he had left for his sabbatical, he hadn't know where he was going or what he was doing except that he was first off to Oxford to visit with a guy he had gone to school with. He had thought he would maybe spend the rest of his time back doing the volunteer charity work, but after a couple weeks in England, had decided that he wanted to travel Europe while he was still young and while he had enough money and the available time. So, he had ending up staying with his friend for a couple weeks before heading off completely on his own. Leaving home in the first place had been hard simply because of Keila. Things hadn't ended too well and the only consensus that they had come to was that she didn't deserve to have to wait for him. He was still pretty sure that she didn't get that he wasn't going away because he wanted to leave her - he was going away because he had to take full advantage of the opportunity while he could. It was impossible to say where he would be at in his life the next time he had the chance to take a year off of work. Even now, almost twelve months later, he still missed her and thought about her on a daily basis, even though they really hadn't spoken since they said their goodbyes. He had sent her a couple emails over the course of the trip, but nothing too personal - he hadn't wanted to make anything any harder than it needed to be. Anyway, he was back now, and in a matter of weeks he would be teaching again - with hundreds of new students fresh out of high school hanging on his every word and hundreds of papers to review on top of that and exams and readings and lectures to plan and give. He had missed work, though he could have spent another couple years traveling probably, and actually found himself a little bit glad to be back - and from the reactions from some of his co-workers, it seemed like most everyone was glad to have him back too. For an experienced, fully qualified professor, he was still so young and he secretly thought that some of the older lecturers enjoyed the fresh faces around. So, looking more like one of his students than anything, he was chilling out in the faculty lounge in the main building - telling stories and getting caught up with two older female professors and one male. Sporting a dark tan, his permanently mussed mop of hair sun-bleached a lighter shade, he was wearing only old faded jeans, a kelly green polo shirt, and flip-flops - his eyes were bright and a wide grin spread over his lips as he leaned forward on his chair with his elbows on his knees as he told a story about getting terribly lost on the transit system in Frankfurt...

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You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 9:07pm PDT
We all know I'm going away -- Aiden, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 9:23pm PDT
You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 9:31pm PDT
And how I wish, I wish it wasn't so -- Aiden, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 9:53pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 10:01pm PDT
So take this wine and drink with me, let's delay our misery -- Aiden, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 10:20pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 10:28pm PDT
Save tonight and fight the break of dawn -- Aiden, Thu, Aug 16 2007, 10:52pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Fri, Aug 17 2007, 7:17pm PDT
Come tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be gone -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 6:44pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 7:15pm PDT
There's a log on the fire and it burns like me for you -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 7:25pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 8:23pm PDT
Tomorrow comes with one desire to take me away, it's true -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 8:42pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 9:35pm PDT
It ain't easy to say goodbye -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 9:53pm PDT
- You came along and cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 10:10pm PDT
Darling please don't start to cry -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 10:29pm PDT
- You came along and cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 10:37pm PDT
'Cause girl, you know I got to go -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 10:50pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 11:01pm PDT
Lord I wish it wasn't so -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 11:19pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 11:30pm PDT
Save tonight and fight the break of dawn -- Aiden, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 11:42pm PDT
- You came along and you cut me loose -- Keila, Mon, Aug 20 2007, 11:51pm PDT
Come tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be gone -- Aiden, Tue, Aug 21 2007, 12:05am PDT
- You came along and cut me loose -- Keila, Tue, Aug 21 2007, 4:06pm PDT