Life Is Not Purgatory
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Stuck in the Middle
… the soap opera continues!
I should write a comedy series on my life, I think I have enough material from my ongoing email exchange with between ‘the other man’ and myself (well really, I guess I am the ‘other man’ so what does that make him?) to make a good story arc for the first few episodes, and when you factor in the near endless storylines generated by the hospitality industry it could make for either a decent sitcom or maybe even a primetime soap (although there isn’t nearly enough sex for it to be a primetime soap… I’ll have to work on that.).
Anyways ‘Bob’ (names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved) first emailed me Nov 27th, he had my email address from an email he had intercepted from “Jane” through ‘questionable’ means, and also forwarded me copies of emails from “Jane” to him essentially denouncing me and impugning my integrity. I heavily disclaimed my answers but responded nonetheless:
Let me start by saying that I think I understand where you are coming from and though that is probably little consolation to you, I hope you will accept my empathy for your situation.
However, I will confine my answers and comments to this particular emails as the other emails - one between “Jane” and myself and two between “Jane” and yourself - I consider to be confidential and privileged communications, and an invasion upon my privacy where the first email forward is concerned, and “Jane’s” where the second and third are concerned. I am greatly concerned as to the manner in which you obtained access to private email, but that is not directly my concern, it should be “Jane’s”.
With that disclaimer aside, I will get down to responding to this email, please understand that I consider my integrity to be very important to me, and while I may not answer a question you ask, I will not lie to you. I know that you have no reason to believe me - but any answer I give will be true and correct to the best of my recollection or understanding.
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I then proceeded to answer in point form almost all of his questions, except those I deemed to be personal and confidential, such as the details of the relationship between “Jane” and I. There is a lot of information and ‘baggage’ that while I would /love/ to vent would identify everyone far to easily. All-in-all after a few short exchanges, I was thanked for my candor and the emails were silent for almost a month… he lashed out again at me a few days ago but things have settled down again.
"Jane" lied to me, and hasn't spoken to me since everything got 'outted', not even to return my email. As for the lesson I’ve learned… that’s still up in the air, but celibacy is starting to look up… not like it would change much. Hmm... need to write a pilot.
… the soap opera continues!
I should write a comedy series on my life, I think I have enough material from my ongoing email exchange with between ‘the other man’ and myself (well really, I guess I am the ‘other man’ so what does that make him?) to make a good story arc for the first few episodes, and when you factor in the near endless storylines generated by the hospitality industry it could make for either a decent sitcom or maybe even a primetime soap (although there isn’t nearly enough sex for it to be a primetime soap… I’ll have to work on that.).
Anyways ‘Bob’ (names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved) first emailed me Nov 27th, he had my email address from an email he had intercepted from “Jane” through ‘questionable’ means, and also forwarded me copies of emails from “Jane” to him essentially denouncing me and impugning my integrity. I heavily disclaimed my answers but responded nonetheless:
Let me start by saying that I think I understand where you are coming from and though that is probably little consolation to you, I hope you will accept my empathy for your situation.
However, I will confine my answers and comments to this particular emails as the other emails - one between “Jane” and myself and two between “Jane” and yourself - I consider to be confidential and privileged communications, and an invasion upon my privacy where the first email forward is concerned, and “Jane’s” where the second and third are concerned. I am greatly concerned as to the manner in which you obtained access to private email, but that is not directly my concern, it should be “Jane’s”.
With that disclaimer aside, I will get down to responding to this email, please understand that I consider my integrity to be very important to me, and while I may not answer a question you ask, I will not lie to you. I know that you have no reason to believe me - but any answer I give will be true and correct to the best of my recollection or understanding.
…
I then proceeded to answer in point form almost all of his questions, except those I deemed to be personal and confidential, such as the details of the relationship between “Jane” and I. There is a lot of information and ‘baggage’ that while I would /love/ to vent would identify everyone far to easily. All-in-all after a few short exchanges, I was thanked for my candor and the emails were silent for almost a month… he lashed out again at me a few days ago but things have settled down again.
"Jane" lied to me, and hasn't spoken to me since everything got 'outted', not even to return my email. As for the lesson I’ve learned… that’s still up in the air, but celibacy is starting to look up… not like it would change much. Hmm... need to write a pilot.
