Hey everybody, this is my girlfriend...

And by everybody, I mean anybody in my life who hasn't met her... But of course, this post is actually for my mom, who, though she knows lots about Danielle, never quite gets tired of hearing it.

So Danielle is from Minnesota, about an hour West of the twin cities. She's a Senior at Wellesley College, an ivy league women's college about a half an hour West of Boston. Wellesley's campus looks a little like the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During the Fall months it is pretty much the epitome of beautiful New England. She's a major in French and Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Africa. She has plans for graduate studies in Nurse Midwifery.

Danielle and I met at our recent Adult Education Conference. Neither of us stayed for very long, and we only talked for a couple minutes. I would have probably never asked her out actually, if our mutual friend Sean hadn't called me and told me she'd brought me up in conversation and that I should ask her out... cause frankly, she didn't seem at all interested when we met. He gave me her number and what do you know... she was really cool.

She came with me to the Do It Your Damn Self! Film Festival that my friend Lumina was organizing. It was really fun and totally relaxed. She was interesting and easy to talk to, so after the festival we went to Not Your Average Joe's for dessert and I asked her over after her meetings on Sunday. We watched a movie and then, as they say, I did my duty.

I have to say, I'm a little surprised that we've been dating a month. In most ways, it seems even faster than that. But we also have a surprisingly comfortable relationship for the amount of time we've been going out. Now we get to see how we handle not seeing each other for 6 weeks...