Prelude to Love

"To be all day with them in the open air, to sleep at night under their roof, had seemed the supreme joy of life, and had led to that abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love." E.M. Forester from Howard's End

I wonder if it is true that when you fall in love you are sometimes abandoning your own former personality. And is it still there for you when you fall out of love? I have my own thoughts on this but I think it is certainly true all too often.

Today I went swimming under the Montparnasse Tower in Paris. Now I'm "getting things done" in my flat before I run out (into the rain, I might add) to buy a few things at the store for the beef stew I will be making tonight, on special request from Max. I am also going to attempt to make homemade peanut butter cups with the ingredients and recipe that Kara sent me last week! That should be interesting and, hopefully, delicious.

I am stalling going out because Allison, another assistant from last year, should be coming through Paris today and I don't know when she will contact me, if at all. Hopefully we can meet up in this great European capitol we find ourselves in and have a little fun, American-style! (Whatever that means - any ideas?)