As promised

I am SO tired right now. So tired in fact that words look strange to me. But since I've got "the other laura" eagerly awaiting an update, I shall oblige. However it will have to be in the form of the list that I have seen other bloggers use.

Okay, so this is what I've been up to lately...

- Film guy: We went out on our date last week. But I'm not even so sure that I can call it a date, since he didn't pay...again. And we didn't have physical contact of any kind, not even a hug. We ended up going to dinner instead of a movie, because he wasn't "awake enough" for a movie, which of course left me jazzed for dinner. Oh great, you can't sit in the dark and watch something on the screen, but you're going to sit across from me and entertain me. :-P Anyway, so I realized by the end of dinner that film guy and I didn't have a spark. We don't even really have much in common. He's a nice guy, but far too jaded for me. The next day he messaged me and when I tried to politely end the conversation he put me on the spot and asked me where I saw things going. He seemed to take it pretty well when I told him that our future is friendship bound, but then again it's hard to judge a reaction on AIM. I guess since he didn't send me the angry emoticon, it must have been well.

Oh wait, I was supposed to be writing a list. Oops, verbosity does me in again.

-Weekend activities: Friday night I had dinner and went to a movie with Vixen. We saw the new Woody Allen flick, Match Point (which I was supposed to see with Film guy). It was pretty good, but the company was better. Sunday night a few of us gathered at E's place for dinner and a movie. E is a fabulous cook, and I will be encouraging (cough) shamefully begging her to cook for us more often. ;-)

-Boy drama: I shamefully admit that I have been corresponding with a boy whom I will call social anxiety boy, via AIM for hmmm 4 months. I have NOT met him even though he lives down the freakin street. It's a long story, none of which will redeem me. I have tried to set up a meeting multiple times. I don't need a pen pal, and I am very wary of the unreal attachments that people form with Internet personas. Last week we finally set up a meeting, and for some reason I thought this time would be different. We chose a specific place and 2 possible showings to meet for a movie. All signs pointed to a successful plan. But when I emailed him the night before to verify the time, I did not hear back from him. In fact, I did not hear from him until 20 minutes before the second option we had discussed for the film. And when I did, he sent this message via AIM:

hey. so, after walking around the mfa (the outside of it) for 20 min, i finally found someone who worked there and found out the film wasnt playing! so i come back to find my power is out and it stayed like that until just recently! yea, weirdness. (and one of my fishies died - blah). so i had no way of getting in touch with you. sorry, life is random, but not usually this random

(The film he's talking about was some documentary he tried to go see the night before our plans, and not the one we were supposed to see)

Yes, life is random. I don't actually know if his power was really out. But it doesn't matter. The point is that I'm never going to meet this guy. I know that. So, I'm done. Soooooo done. It sure took me long enough! Maybe he wasn't really kidding when he said he had a hump back.

-School: Teaching is going pretty well so far. It's taking me awhile to get back into the swing of things and plow through the marathon days where no matter how much you do, you're never quite on top of things. But I like having a new class and experimenting with some new things. I know this semester will fly by, and it's nice to know that I'm in the home stretch. But it's too bad that my students are referring to me as Mrs. C. I'm not sure when this wedding happened, but maybe it would explain the sex I'm not having.

-Things to look forward to: Another movie night with some gals, and a Mozart concert with CK. Yay for friends.