Tag: menz
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Fatally Optimistic
I went out with this guy once who ended up blocking me from his phone. He was very tall and good looking and ended up saying he didn’t know how to block people from his phone so it was weird that I was blocked. I just said whatev and let it go because the distance…
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a transcript of the end
[begin transcript] me: How’s work tonight? him: pretty slow him: what u doing up [it’s 2:02 am on a Sunday] me: Good question. I keep waking up. me: Are we gonna still see each other or…? him: Yah I have to you about that but don’t want to do it over text me: ok, not…
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Dating IV, or the Statistical Analysis of Love
The significant dates. Dates as defined by calendar days but might be construed as dates as in dating, though some of the “dates” were really just mindless fucking. Whatever. You decide the definition(s). In a month’s time, you have a choice. The averages don’t lie. • March 5-April 5, 2008: you had 12 dates down…
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Something Other Than Fate
On Monday, happenstance occurred. Happenstance, I say, because I’m not sure I believe in fate or destiny, puzzle pieces fitting together just so. I see a yellow sticky note on my office floor. I leave it there for several hours. I have things to do. In the mid-afternoon, I pick up the note and take…
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Writing Inspiration: Dating
A good date is always a bad date for a writer. I get a rush of delight when I realize things have gone horribly awry and I’m stuck in a situation that I will be forced to endure for another 53 minutes. It’s sweet, the taste of the meat of him, the reassuring thought that…
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A Waffle House Romance
I met him at the Waffle House, which was even cooler than saying I met him on the internet He was cute though for a moment as I was walking up I wasn’t sure He had stunning blue eyes usually I go for brown but he was all smiles and there was little awkwardness I…
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(Reasons) We Love Him, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
He says he needs soup and a good woman to take care of him. Aw. He says raw emotion is lame. Double aw. Sweet is good, he says. Sarcastic is good, he says. He shrugs his shoulders when called Pookie. He says we walk into his jokes like a…
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what he did
he did what he did but I still think of him fondly when I opened the door I took his breath away something most unexpected something so surprising even to him to the both of us
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To My Dearest, Part 5
To: My Dearest From: Medicated Lady Re: Evaluation There is compelling evidence that you do not feel you have made an error in judgment concerning me. This is disappointing as I had not terminated you; I had only put you on probation. I fully expected for you to come through a reassessment with no problems.…
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Completely Pointless Ruminations (as most ruminations are)
This whole time, I was thinking I had only recently licked my wounds from the ex of 2008. Then I remembered that last November I was developing a solid relationship with a guy who would 3 months later leave to go to Japan for a couple of years (aka the guy who left the country…