I'm back (part three)

The JR's story is a bit of a non-starter... let's just say that i'm no longer willing to sit back and let my friends have all the men. Nothing happened, but I've definately seen a change in myself to push for attention. (for future notes: postings where I talk about trying to change myself will have the label me 2007, which is a continuation of last years Rebirth of me 2006- not a label on here though)

The gym story: WARNING- This story is not for the weak natured, nor those who are eating or have recently eaten.

So the other day, I was at CVS after my workout getting some milk for breakfast. In front of me in line is this guy who worksout at my gym, which is next door. This guy usually has a bit of an attitude, so I kind of don't like him, which adds to the humor of all this. He's also one of those guys that will cruise the shower area for an hour, 90 minutes at a time (dry skin anyone?)for sex...and yes, I've caught him hooking up there before.I look down to see what he's buying... KY and an enema. I about fall down laughing, but some how manage to hold in my laughter. He rings up right ahead of me and we leave at just about the same time. He disappears and I look back in the gym and see him going down the stairs. I think he was going to go use that KY and enema in the gym... grosss.... funny, but gross.

I'm back (part two)

COntinuing from yesterday:

1. So Ruthie has been seeing this guy for about a month now. I'm happy for him, although am worried how it might affect our friendship, as I clearly don't want to be the third wheel. But his boy seems very nice and very friendly and is friends with the waiter (soon to be mentioned). But he's just like me. We may not look exactly alike b/c he's shorter and has facial hair, but our mannerisms and personality are exactly alike. I had to say afterwards (not to Ruthie mind you) that it was like he was dating me vicariously through someone else. Interesting and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

2. Last monday, my long term waiter crush was out at JR's. I've never seen him outside of his element. But I stopped and chatted with him a bit while we were out. ANd its done wonders for our friendship. We've exchanged phone numbers and have texted a couple of times and when I was at his restaurant/bar on Saturday he really sat down and chatted with me for like two hours. At JR's, I offered to buy him a beer. He told me that I don't have to, but i insisted saying that with the number of beers he's served me, the least I could do is buy him one. He said "yeah, but i've never bought you one." To which I respond "yeah, I know... and don't think I haven't noticed. ALl the bartenders here give me free drinks ;)... nothing like guilting people for free drinks.

3. The date: So over President's day weekend, I went to JR's(way too much) and met a guy. I went with Christian and at some point Christian walked away to say hi to someone else and the guy started talking to me. So we chatted a bit... we have some similar interests... and he doesn't seem like the normal type of guy I get so we exchanged numbers. We were in contact for a couple days through texting and emails. We went out for an actual date on Saturday. It went well. We hit up some bars where no one would know us so we could talk and drink and get to know each other. It was a good night. We ended up at JR's at the end of the night where I introduced him to a very drunk friend. And my date (Dan) told him that he was going on vacation to Ft. Lauderdale this week. So the friend decides it would be appropriate to recommend the bathhouse in Ft. Laud to visit... for the guy I'm on my first date with. I was mortified and my mouth dropped open larger than my friends probably did at that bathhouse. Dan was gracious about it though, so he got bonus points for that. At the end of the night I walked him home and we kissed good night and he said he had a great time and would love to hang out again.

Gotta get to a meeting: Tomorrow's catch up- the gym story and what happened last night at JR's ( I really do go there too much)

i'm back....(part one)

My conference is over and I'm trying to catch up with the rest of life, including what's gone on over the past few weeks. I won't post it all today, so look for updates over the next couple of days.

1. In the many tasks I took on for myself this year was to be part of this reaccreditation committee. I got put on a subcommittee that looked at Distance Education. After our first meeting, the rest of the committee checked out. I thought it would be an interesting experience to get a new perspective on accreditation, but it turned out that my group just wanted someone to do the work. What's worse is they stopped responding to my questions completely. The person who was supposed to be in charge hasn't said a thing to us since the first meeting. She hasn't even shown up for a meeting since then. When I ask the other woman a question, she says you should ask the other woman. Great two incompletent people I have to deal with. At the last meeting where I submitted a draft, she decided to nitpick, which turned me into not such a happy camper. I actually made sure I left the meeting early so I didn't have to talk to her after the meeting. I think, now that I've turned in the rest of my stuff, I am just going to make last minute excuses not to go to anymore meetings. This experience has made me not want to work with faculty ever again. At some point, they need to realize that their students are just as if not busier than they are.

2. The ESRI COnference occured this weekend. Things went off well, although we were completely overwhelmed with additional registrations (my area) that I wasn't prepared for so we ran out of every piece of material we had. Oops.. I guess there are worse problems. I was proud, if not exhausted by what we had accomplished though.

That covers the professional past week. Tomorrow/or if I get bored later today: Ruthie's boyfriend, my date, seeing the waiter out and about, and a horribly disgusting, yet hilarious gym story.

Sorry I've been MIA

Yes, I know I haven't written in a while... Its been super busy the past two weeks. The ESRI Conference that I am on the planning board of happens this Saturday so its taken a lot of my time. Plus all the other commitments, like reaccreditation (where I am running my subcommittee now) and other work commitments. You do have stories coming, like meeting Ruthie's new man, running into my Mackey's crush out and about, and even getting a guy's phone number... and he's returned my calls. I promise all these topics will be discussed and more.... after Saturday.

VD

Things have been good this week. I havent been as exhausted after getting sick last weekend. I've also not been so in the funk lately or depressed, so maybe I'm turning the corner on all that.

As I mentioned on my posting of seeing King Lear, I plan to try and do at least one cultural thing a month in the hopes of exploring life and what DC has to offer. Well last night, I got a last minute invite from M&M asking me to go to the Kennedy Center with him and his friend to see Edward Scissorhands, which was a dance recital (is that the right term?). It was good. Mind you I know very little about dance so I can't critique it the same way I can acting. I am intriqued though how that movie can inspire someone so much to create this performance piece off of that. I find that to be the most interesting aspect of it all. But I had a good time and boys at the Kennedy Center are cute!!!!!

Ruthie has been getting snippy lately with me and I don't really know why. I don't think he realizes it, but some of his comments just make me want to keep my life private and not tell him things. Which is hard, because I am an open individual and really do live my life as an open book (despite the requests I get to not do that as much ;)

Today is Valentine's day and while I do not have one, I hope my readers are enjoying the holiday (as much as I enjoyed my job opening 2 hours late today due to the snow.)

Why must you toy with my heart?!?!?!

As part of my tv addiction, I am currently in love with the show Brothers and Sisters, on right after Desperate Housewives. But why must they break my heart with how they treat the character Scotty (played by Luke MacFarlane-pic attached). Scotty plays an upbeat, completely sweet Southern boy (think of a slightly toned down Emmett Honeycutt). And he and the main character Kevin had a cute relationship, although Kevin seemed to constantly be an ass to him. So the show brings them back last night and they sleep together. The next day we find out it was only to make Kevin's in the closet boyfriend jealous.... Which means that Scotty won't be around for the rest of the season I guess. :(

nerd excitement

So yesterday as I putzed around on my computer I checked my myspace account. And I had an email so I checked it and it was from my favorite author, Chris Bohjalian. Yeah, I'm sure most of you haven't heard of him, but working in a bookstore for 5,6 years helps you get acquainted with authors most have never heard of. But it sent me on a wave of excitement and euphoria... I'm totally requesting him to be my friend.

The twink club

So there is this group of people at my gym that I call "the twink club." There is this old creepy guy and when i say old I mean older than dirt and when i say creepy i mean take the creepiest guy you know and multiply it by 2.4. Well he seems to have all these close friendships with these young (18-24) twink types at the gym and I've always been creeped out, yet wierdly fascinated at these boys and how they talk to this guy. Well the guy was at Cosi's yesterday as a classmate and I were studying and having lunch. And he comes up to me and starts talking to me like we're best friends.. of course it was all like "oh we work out at the same gym blah blah blah..." and I have two thoughts. 1. Pervert, stay away from me. and 2. Hmmm it looks like my diet and exercise routine has paid off as i'm now being invited into the twink society.

a correction

I have to revise an earlier story so someone isn't shown in a negative light that isnt deserved. I reported from my birthday weekend getting rejected by a guy I wasn't even pursuing. Well, I rechecked the facts with the person involved in the story now that I'm sober and found out he just mentioned that he didn't want to date and there was no connection to me whatsoever. So don't hate the guy too much.