"Kept inside our idol race, ghosts of an idol's false embrace. Rest your head now, don't you cry. Don't ever ask the reason why."
I had wondered why people stared, I wondered why people thought it was weird. I have spent much time trying to explain that the professor is not my sugar daddy after discovering, to my horror, what that phrase actually means. It may sound stupid, but I have never really bothered finding out exactly what it meant. To my logic, it should mean an older man who is rather sweet. Makes me feel like I have twisted logic. I was stunned to find out how many people actually held that belief. The problem with trying to eradicate this belief is that I haven't a reasonable substitute to replace it with.
Rumours can only be replaced with other rumours. And if I'm not fucking the professor to get ahead in my career then what the hell am I doing? I have no idea what I'm doing.
Went to that bbq last week, and it confused the hell out of me. I thought he was inviting me to introduce me to important people, but that wasn't it at all. The only way that I can explain is that I felt like I was their child, forced to be presentable while they entertained their friends. I enjoyed myself, felt incredibly poorly read and juvenile but also felt young for the first time in years. Mostly because I was the youngest one there by at least 15 years.
I also realised that I eat incredibly slowly. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just the way I tend to cut things up. I don't know if cutting things up is part of this ED, or if it is more part of my OCD, but I tend to cut things into small squares before eating them and this isn't always easy to do. It can be really quite embarrassing when everyone else is finished and I'm concentrating hard on cutting things into little squares of food.
Nice to learn something about myself I guess.
He still monitors what I eat. Which I find incredibly odd considering how fat I am right now, and how I haven't lost any weight for a long time now. Surely he must not be worried anymore. But again, he noticed what I had on my plate, and how much I had left over. I tried to talk it down, and to a large extent it worked. I wonder if there will ever come a time when people will decide that my weight is stable enough to say that I no longer have an ED.
It's a vicious cycle. When my weight is stable and I'm good from an ED point of view, my suicidality shoots sky high and all I want to do is to run out and get hit by a train. But when my weight is going down and the ED voices are screaming loud, I'm happier than ever. I wish I could just somehow accept this weight, because it tends to be my "usual" weight and just be happy with it. In fact, I wish I could just be happy with having a stable weight.
I guess I still have some sort of an ED, even though I'm not losing weight.
For the past month or so there has been a gradual but certain change in our relationship. I'm fighting my basic instinct to treat him as a boss and be super respectful and formal and professional, and my other basic instinct which is to do what he wants me to do because he is my boss.
Up till this point, I thought we had a very normal, professional relationship. Yes, I knew he favoured me, but I didn't think we did anything that was out of the societal norm. It was only when I arrived early at the bbq, having come straight from work, let myself past their gate and into their house and walked into his friend, who almost leapt out of his skin at the sight of me when I realised that this wasn't quite normal.
I know it's not normal, but I don't know what is going on. It's weird, yet natural. I don't know. Hopefully it defines itself in good time.
As unbiased people, my lovely readers, please leave any thoughts you have on what is going on with the professor. After all, you read what the other people in my life hear about the professor, and I'm really curious to know what you think. I get the feeling people are rather reluctant to tell me what they really think, but you all will be honest with me, please tell me what you think.
i can't help but laugh at the sugar Daddy thing
ReplyDeleteim so perverted that i have to know THAT word
both i think. i think it's more OCD. i have to weigh my food or be able to predict it. a lot of my foods i can predict what their weights are just by looking at them and if i can't do that, i don't want to eat it. or i get panicky when i can't find nutritional information and stuff like that.
weight doesn't mean anything when it comes to ED. yes, for anorexia, you need that 17.5 or under, but for an ED in general? its mindset. its habits. its reason. its all of that condensed in a box.
i think he values you as a person. i think he wants you in his life on a deeper level but i don't think there is a sexual or romantic agenda in his mind but then again, this is from my presumption from your words. he can definitely find you to be appealing sexually so, but you might have not picked on it and thus haven't projected it on this blog so i'm only explaining from what you observe.
so i guess the answer remains within the man himself.
-Sam Lupin xo
I'm rather confuse about the whole thing, but am shocked that people defines it by the professor being your sugar daddy when that obviously NOT the case.
ReplyDeleteIs he married? If yes, doesn't you know his wife? I mean, the professor cared a lot about you and if I remember correctly; you've kissed?
I think there's something between you guys , feelings, desire, maybe lust..
Xx jo