Ugh! So there's this Cal-Tec lad who took me out to dinner on Valentine's Day, and although we had our little awkward moments (like when he would be semi-discretelly laughing like as though I'd just said something heinously, outrageously bizarre and don't know it) it seemed that perhaps we might get along and have good ol' times and whatever else it is that people date for...
However now I'm starting to think he's a horrible, horrible boy!!!
*monsters leaping in flames and hissing nastilly at the sky for no apparent reason*
I never have time to call people normally, so I've been emailing him: the last 2 emails I wrote him were, I do admit, rather far apart... the first one being 'sorry i haven't called you i'll call when i get time' and the second being kinda 'sorry i still haven't called you i am so busy all the time how about we just arrange to meet next weekend?'
and he sent me a rather unkind email back to me, saying i've been "somewhat very flaky" in his oh-so "i'm not really an impolite person in the slightest way" WAY!!!
Rrrgh!! ... hmm... maybe it's a bad sign that I'm this miffed at him already and I've only even been out with him once.... 
...I NEVER date!! I mean, it's not my policy on life or anything: it's just a phenomenon that never ever seems to happen to me... I don't know what's a smart thing to do or what's a really, really dumb thing to do... or even what's a kosher thing to do (kosher? polite-like?) ... I kinda arranged to meet him for dinner again next Friday...
... I don't know... There were a few moments while we were out on Valentine's day that he really ticked me off... Like I mentioned something like "I once bought this top hat..." and he made this face like he'd just heard the most out-of-control radically surreal thing he'd ever heard in his life, and did the face kindof halfway in his one hand to hide his snickering laughter -thing.
And THEN there's this thing where he seems to be just this.... this... i want to say Anti-California Snob.. Like he's so proud of being not-from California, and he's so... I don't know; so damn CRITICAL in this semi-snobby way about the whole place.. I made the mistake of telling him how once I was talking to this girl from Michigan, who started going off at me at how stupid she thinks the whole concept of California is, and how stupid people are for living here, and my thoughts were "hey, hippocrite; here YOU are living in California!" and while i was telling him this he started doing that snicker-into-the-hand thing again. and then he said "You DO realize that the rest of the country has a stereotype about Californians, DON'T you?" and for I little second i didn't say anything... usually i don't run into anti-Californianism or whatever the fuck... and I finally for some screwy reason, maybe it was to try and keep the date on the positive side or something, I said "Well yeah, of course I realize that..." and i tried again to explain the girl's hypocracy as I saw it... but i don't think he understood me really; just had a look like he was talking to someone really strange or... Californian..
I think I SHOULD have said: "YOU realize that the rest of the WORLD has a stereotype about AMERICANS, DON'T you??" but I only think of these things.. AND realize how annoyed I am/was, much later....
Sheesh... it really seems like i don't like this guy very much, does it
Why do I always get so pissed off at guys I go on a date with? I mean, I go on a date like once a year or so, I'm THAT out-of-the-dating-scene; maybe for you frequent-daters this date story sounds like a disaster and maybe I sound nuts for thinking about going out with him ever again in my life... I feel like most of what I know about dating I learned on Blind Date; but that's what lots of people say...
egh... maybe it's not a suprise that I haven't felt like calling him... woah.. maybe I'm actually a JERK for continuing to pretend I can feasably date him..?!?. I don't know though.. HE started it... (he asked me out and all, that is...) ..??...
I really don't know anything about these things....
Well.. maybe we'll have a better conversation on Friday... or maybe at that point I'll either have the guts to break it off nicely or... or whatever else people do...
However now I'm starting to think he's a horrible, horrible boy!!!
*monsters leaping in flames and hissing nastilly at the sky for no apparent reason*
I never have time to call people normally, so I've been emailing him: the last 2 emails I wrote him were, I do admit, rather far apart... the first one being 'sorry i haven't called you i'll call when i get time' and the second being kinda 'sorry i still haven't called you i am so busy all the time how about we just arrange to meet next weekend?'
and he sent me a rather unkind email back to me, saying i've been "somewhat very flaky" in his oh-so "i'm not really an impolite person in the slightest way" WAY!!!
Rrrgh!! ... hmm... maybe it's a bad sign that I'm this miffed at him already and I've only even been out with him once....
...I NEVER date!! I mean, it's not my policy on life or anything: it's just a phenomenon that never ever seems to happen to me... I don't know what's a smart thing to do or what's a really, really dumb thing to do... or even what's a kosher thing to do (kosher? polite-like?) ... I kinda arranged to meet him for dinner again next Friday...
... I don't know... There were a few moments while we were out on Valentine's day that he really ticked me off... Like I mentioned something like "I once bought this top hat..." and he made this face like he'd just heard the most out-of-control radically surreal thing he'd ever heard in his life, and did the face kindof halfway in his one hand to hide his snickering laughter -thing.
And THEN there's this thing where he seems to be just this.... this... i want to say Anti-California Snob.. Like he's so proud of being not-from California, and he's so... I don't know; so damn CRITICAL in this semi-snobby way about the whole place.. I made the mistake of telling him how once I was talking to this girl from Michigan, who started going off at me at how stupid she thinks the whole concept of California is, and how stupid people are for living here, and my thoughts were "hey, hippocrite; here YOU are living in California!" and while i was telling him this he started doing that snicker-into-the-hand thing again. and then he said "You DO realize that the rest of the country has a stereotype about Californians, DON'T you?" and for I little second i didn't say anything... usually i don't run into anti-Californianism or whatever the fuck... and I finally for some screwy reason, maybe it was to try and keep the date on the positive side or something, I said "Well yeah, of course I realize that..." and i tried again to explain the girl's hypocracy as I saw it... but i don't think he understood me really; just had a look like he was talking to someone really strange or... Californian..
I think I SHOULD have said: "YOU realize that the rest of the WORLD has a stereotype about AMERICANS, DON'T you??" but I only think of these things.. AND realize how annoyed I am/was, much later....
Sheesh... it really seems like i don't like this guy very much, does it
Why do I always get so pissed off at guys I go on a date with? I mean, I go on a date like once a year or so, I'm THAT out-of-the-dating-scene; maybe for you frequent-daters this date story sounds like a disaster and maybe I sound nuts for thinking about going out with him ever again in my life... I feel like most of what I know about dating I learned on Blind Date; but that's what lots of people say...
egh... maybe it's not a suprise that I haven't felt like calling him... woah.. maybe I'm actually a JERK for continuing to pretend I can feasably date him..?!?. I don't know though.. HE started it... (he asked me out and all, that is...) ..??...
I really don't know anything about these things....
Well.. maybe we'll have a better conversation on Friday... or maybe at that point I'll either have the guts to break it off nicely or... or whatever else people do...
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[Edited on Mar 19, 2003]