call me eve
His name was Adam, a 20-something who looked 15 massage therapist in Regina. He works at the spa at the Hotel Saskatchewan, and he says that Regina is beautiful in the summertime. I believe any word he says, because he is giving me the best massage of my life. We are talking, the conversation is flowing easily. He doesn't make me feel creepy at all. He keeps mentioning his girlfriend. (VERY LUCKY GIRL) He seems like a fine young man, one of Regina's best. One of Canada's best, maybe. Canada's best....hands. Yes, CANADA'S BEST HANDS. All I know is that I never wanted it to end.
At some point, I stopped talking to him. I was WAY too relaxed to keep up a conversation. He did that thing, you know, where they lift up a corner of the sheet and then they look away and get you to turn over. I was so relaxed I kept bumping my head into his arms, saying "Sorry!" He was very gracious, of course.
"Maiko?' he said (he even pronounced my name right!) "Are you awake?"
"What? Oh. Oh yeah, I'm awake." Or is this a really gooooood dream...
If that was Adam, call me Eve.
posted by maiko@theatrereplacement.org @ 1:44 PM
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I had a massage a few months ago. I went to Puerto Viejo to dip my toes in the delicious Caribbean waters. The day I arrived I got a kink in my neck. This happens to me every so often, the result of sitting in an unnatural position for an unnatural period of time each day, typing.
The guy who gave me my massage was named Walter. He was a Rolfer. He didn't Rolf me, but he did give me a deep-tissue massage on my neck area, hitting all these pressure points. It was excruciating.
He had this number system from 1-10, wherein, as I understood it, 6 was "kinda hurts," 7 was "hurts," 8 was "hurts quite a bit," 9 was "okay, that really hurts, asshole" and 10 was "if you don't stop now i'm going to rip out your lungs."
My neck was really fucked up, so the minute he touched me it felt like a 10. I kept yelling 10! Until finally he said, "Look, I know it's not a 10. You wanna feel a 10?"
After that I stopped using the number system.
I almost punched the guy several times, he hurt me so bad. But you know what? He fixed me up.
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