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she moves in mysterious ways
Apr. 6th, 2019 08:56 amUGH. So there's this dude who comes in to work fairly frequently and I meant to post a week or so ago about thinking I'd been a bit of an idiot and perhaps ~missed my chance~ but last night made it clear it was more of a "dodged a fucking bullet" kind of scenario.
I should preface this all with being terrible at knowing when someone is flirting with me. It goes completely over my head and part of this is due to being exceptionally socially awkward and also I'm pretty sarcastic all of the time when I'm at work. But I'm also pretty sure this dude's been flirting with me for awhile but just never moved beyond flirting. Which is fine because then things can get awkward. But shortly after he was in, another sorta regular comes in and buys his cigarettes and then asks, for a friend, if I have a boyfriend. And without thinking, I say yes because there was also a SUPER creep in not too long before and I don't know which guy (and it could've been someone else entirely- how would I know?) he's friends with. But at the time I said yes, sorry, I thought he meant super creep. It wasn't til later that I realized it was possibly the other guy. But there's no way to find out unless I ask and... enh.
But I did feel a little bad about it because until last night, I might not have immediately said no had he asked me out or asked for my number.
( He even popped up in a dream. )
Anyway, last night he's in line and he just starts laughing when he sees the cover for the April 1st issue of Time Magazine. For those who don't feel like clicking the link, it's got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the cover. Annnnnnnnnnd I don't find her cover to be funny, particularly since I've been wondering what, exactly, people tell themselves they hate about her since I doubt they admit to themselves that part of it's racism/sexism/being a raging Republican who can't deal with anyone who isn't. I mean, they might admit the latter, actually. But even if I'd thought that maybe there was something amusing to be found about her cover (there isn't; I read the article last night), him mentioning as an aside that Time had Hitler on the cover twice back in the 30's is not exactly making me feel warm and fuzzy.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. At best, he's just not a fan of hers but that's still spinning it way too much for my interest to swing back around. So yeah, we're calling this an intervention via fate and accepting it as such.
Saw this article on the end of Tangier Island and read it because I still cannot hear/see the name of that place without hearing the ex go off on a rant about "Tangier-Fucking-Island." The tl;dr version of the article is that due to climate change and rising sea levels, the island is likely to be gone by 2050, if not sooner. It's an interesting read and makes me want to read the book that's mentioned throughout it.
I should preface this all with being terrible at knowing when someone is flirting with me. It goes completely over my head and part of this is due to being exceptionally socially awkward and also I'm pretty sarcastic all of the time when I'm at work. But I'm also pretty sure this dude's been flirting with me for awhile but just never moved beyond flirting. Which is fine because then things can get awkward. But shortly after he was in, another sorta regular comes in and buys his cigarettes and then asks, for a friend, if I have a boyfriend. And without thinking, I say yes because there was also a SUPER creep in not too long before and I don't know which guy (and it could've been someone else entirely- how would I know?) he's friends with. But at the time I said yes, sorry, I thought he meant super creep. It wasn't til later that I realized it was possibly the other guy. But there's no way to find out unless I ask and... enh.
But I did feel a little bad about it because until last night, I might not have immediately said no had he asked me out or asked for my number.
( He even popped up in a dream. )
Anyway, last night he's in line and he just starts laughing when he sees the cover for the April 1st issue of Time Magazine. For those who don't feel like clicking the link, it's got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the cover. Annnnnnnnnnd I don't find her cover to be funny, particularly since I've been wondering what, exactly, people tell themselves they hate about her since I doubt they admit to themselves that part of it's racism/sexism/being a raging Republican who can't deal with anyone who isn't. I mean, they might admit the latter, actually. But even if I'd thought that maybe there was something amusing to be found about her cover (there isn't; I read the article last night), him mentioning as an aside that Time had Hitler on the cover twice back in the 30's is not exactly making me feel warm and fuzzy.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. At best, he's just not a fan of hers but that's still spinning it way too much for my interest to swing back around. So yeah, we're calling this an intervention via fate and accepting it as such.
Saw this article on the end of Tangier Island and read it because I still cannot hear/see the name of that place without hearing the ex go off on a rant about "Tangier-Fucking-Island." The tl;dr version of the article is that due to climate change and rising sea levels, the island is likely to be gone by 2050, if not sooner. It's an interesting read and makes me want to read the book that's mentioned throughout it.