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- I'd like to tell all of you about my girlfriend, Terri, and some of the great
- experiences we've had together. I'm doing this with her permission, but she's
- asked me not to describe anything that could give us away to the other workers
- in our office, since we know some of them read this newsgroup. So, my
- descriptions of us, and our names, are altered. The rest of the story is true.
- Maybe it's better that way, since you can substitute whatever faces and bodies
- and names make the story more exciting for you. But in fact, it remains our
- story. If it's well-received on the net, maybe I'll write some more later, but
- for now, I'll tell you about how our relationship started. I couldn't come up
- with a title. She suggested "Fucking Terri's Brains Out" but I thought it was
- a little bit blatant. So you can give it your own title if you want.
-
- New York Super Fudge Chunk is a trademark of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. They
- have not given their permission for it to appear in this story, nor, to the
- best of my knowledge, do they endorse its use as a sexual aid.
-
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- No one would ever call Terri beautiful, except for me. That may seem like a
- strange way to start talking about the woman I love, but it's the truth. Guys
- I know have called her "cute" or "decent-looking" or even "plain," but it
- doesn't matter to me. She's a little bit on the short side, which I like, and
- although she does have a few (only a few) spare pounds, most of her weight is
- muscle. She has an average bust, small waist, and her behind and legs look
- great in a pair of tight pants. Her hair is straight and light brown, and her
- face, truthfully, is more cute than pretty in the usual sense. Her eyes,
- though, are a pale, sparkling blue-grey with always a hint of mischief in them.
-
- Terri danced into my life in mid-August. And when I say danced, I mean it
- literally. She had just started work in my office, a new recruit added to our
- research and development team fresh out of college. I had known that she was
- starting work, but had been on vacation the previous week, so I hadn't been
- there when she was introduced to the rest of the team. I arrived early on
- Monday, wanting to get caught up with the week's backlog of mail and figure
- out just what had gone on in my absence. I heard light classical music coming
- through the wall from the office next to mine, which had been vacant when I
- left, so I decided to introduce myself to my new co-worker. I stepped out of
- my office and into hers, and was almost knocked over as she came whirling out
- her door in a graceful pirouette. Instinctively, I brought my hands up and
- caught her. She must've been as surprised as I was, but gave no sign of it as
- she tilted her head back, looked into my eyes and said, "Are you just going to
- stand there, or are you going to dip me?"
-
- I pride myself on my ability to take most anything in stride, and usually I'd
- have a quick comeback for a line like that, but not this time. Actually, I
- must've looked kind of silly as I yanked my hands away and made some lame
- excuse about not knowing the step. We introduced ourselves, and she showed me
- the decorations she had been putting up in her office. I knew after just a few
- minutes of talking to her that she was not going to be just another nerd in
- the office. Maybe it's just because she hasn't been ground down by the
- day-to-day work routine, but she just seems so much more alive than most of my
- other co-workers. And although it certainly wasn't love at first sight, I knew
- right away that I could really get to like her.
-
- Since I had a few years experience with the department, and was working on a
- fairly low-priority project at the moment, our boss decided that it would be a
- good idea for her to get her feet wet by helping me out on this project. I was
- amazed by her skill and talent. She took some time getting used to our coding
- conventions, or what passes for them, and the source code control system we
- use, but other than that she seemed to have an instant understanding of
- everything we were doing, and came up with a number of optimizations that had
- gotten by me. That's not really such a big deal, but the fact that she never
- made an issue out of occasionally getting one up on me was quite a welcome
- change from the usual attitude I've encountered. In fact, it got to be
- something of a game between us, making us both do our jobs a little bit
- better. So it wasn't surprising when we finished that project and got handed a
- new one, this time a top-priority job.
-
- As the wise reader has probably guessed by now, my interest in Terri was
- growing personally as well as professionally. She'd come over to my place for
- dinner a few times, and we'd been out to a few movies, usually with friends. I
- thought that she was showing an interest in me as well, but since I've long
- ago stopped trying to out-guess a woman, I wasn't making any assumptions. We'd
- exchanged innuendos a few times, but I was just putting it down to a
- flirtatious streak. But as I became more interested in her, and started
- showing her some deliberately unprofessional attention, she seemed to be
- responding in kind.
-
- The turning point came, as it usually does in a relationship, at the least
- likely moment. We'd been working on our second project together for about a
- month, and although we'd been making good progress, there were still some
- critical timing problems we couldn't seem to resolve, with a deadline less
- than a week away. Neither of us was in any danger if we didn't get the program
- perfected, but after our early successes, we weren't going to accept a defeat,
- and we'd started putting in some really long hours in the office. We were in
- my office, throwing some ideas (and a Koosh) around at about midnight one
- night. The white board was covered with notes, mostly crossed out, and we had
- both been through half a dozen cups of tea since lunch time. Neither of us had
- had dinner, and our usual good humor was quickly fading.
-
- "What if we forget about interrupts and go with a polling scheme instead?" I
- asked, and flipped her the Koosh.
-
- "No good. Eats up too many CPU cycles if we have to spin for too long. It
- would sit there and poll until the user responds, and that might not be until
- the next morning on a batch job." She tossed it back.
-
- "Okay, polling with a timeout. And, to avoid CPU usage, we use a coprocessor."
- I gave the Koosh a high lob, and watched in dismay as it landed in her teacup
- and splashed cold Earl Grey on the day's notes.
-
- We were both on the papers in a second, trying to keep the tea from soaking
- through too many layers. The crisis past, she sighed and said, "Okay. Let me
- go get another cup of tea, and we'll pick up on your idea."
-
- At the moment, though, my mind had suddenly gone elsewhere, the way a male
- mind often will when it sees an attractive woman having a hard time. "Wait a
- minute," I said. "You don't need any more caffeine. You need something to
- relax you. Sit down." She sat down, and gave me a puzzled look. "Now, close
- your eyes, and turn your brain off for a few minutes." She closed her eyes,
- but from the look she gave me before closing them, I think her brain was
- probably quite busy as I turned her chair away from mine and put my hands on
- her shoulders.
-
- I had "threatened" her with backrubs many times before, but had never actually
- gotten up the nerve to give her one. Now it seemed like the most natural thing
- in the world as I stroked her back, shoulders, and neck. She seemed to relax
- totally after the first couple minutes, and leaned back quite comfortably
- against me. Encouraged, I worked my fingers up into her hair, and then down
- just inside the collar of her sweater, then massaged all the way down her arms
- to her hands. I guess I'd been at it about an hour when there was a knock on
- my office door and I saw the janitor peering through the tiny window. Terri
- and I both tried to act natural as I let him in, but we could both barely keep
- from laughing at the way he stood there grinning at us both, as if the three
- of us were sharing some great secret.
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