well it has been some time since i was last able to blog. time passes so fast sometimes. lots of personal stuff going on. been keeping busy at work, which is a good thing. although today we had a few burning incidences today...like i almost set a paper towel on fire - no, not intentionally! and then we were trying to warm up some media and ended up melting the plates and burning the media, it was smelly and sticky and hot and nasty. think gross chemicals everywhere. i suited up for toxic cleanup. lucky me. why do i subject myself to that? cause no one else would do it! oh well.
now that the reunion is over i have time to focus on things like christmas. and hopefully friendships. oh and writing my christmas letter. i'm thinking of making it different than i have in the past. if anyone wants to hear about my exciting life, email me your mailing address (everyone loves mail!) and i'll send you a copy! no guarantee it'll be there before christmas however, since it's not written yet :)
anyhow, what else is new. keeping up with the blog is hard when i can't make time for it during the day - and when they keep me busy here running around cleaning up messes, there's simply no time between work, going to rugby practice and freezing my booty off, and then having a social life at night.
my friend brendan and i were considering renting a house together, that threw some excitement into last week. this week i'm prepping to see my family for christmas. preparing to go running in the SNOW. thinking of going snowshoeing or cross country skiing. maybe downhill skiing!
maybe i'll be able to update more frequently when i'm home. but i doubt it.
anyone have any fun weekend plans?
and, here's the question for the day (it's more of a scenario):
you meet up with an old classmate of the opposite sex at your high school reunion. you knew them, they knew you, there was no old flame or anything like that. you find out that they live across the country (like you!), in a city not too far from where you live. this is exciting news because you have finally found a familiar face in a place where you feel very alone sometimes. you contact the person and ask them if they would like to hang out in the city sometime, maybe get some food or go see a museum or a concert/show of some sort sometime.
are you asking the person out, and/or are they thinking you're interested in them physically/sexually just because you contacted them about hanging out after 10 years of not talking?
4 comments:
Welcome back.
1. Is Brendan hot?
2. As long as you make your intentions clear to the person you're calling, it should be cool as long as they're cool. Explain that it's nice to have a friendly face in the area and it'd be cool to hang out sometime. If they say no, tell them to bite it for another 10 years..
will -
1. brendan is hot. actually he's more of a big hugable bear. and possibly gay. are you thinking of a move to the west coast?
2. i didn't tell the guy "yo let's hook up" i pretty much said it like you said, hey, wanna hang out sometime kind of thing. he said that sounds cool. so it's cool, right?
I think it really depends on what you are looking for (which you didn't reveal in your post).
If you are looking to bring back an old friendship and keep that limitation on it, then you probably did okay in the invitation, but you might want reiterate your intentions (in a non-threatening way) when you get together.
If you are looking for more than a friendship, be careful that you are not coming across looking like someone who has such bad luck finding love that you're searching through yearbooks or class reunions and wondering "what that guy's up to these days." Guys who think that's the case may try to take advantage of the girl's perceived low self-esteem, and end up ruining what could be a great relationship by hurting her.
(NOT that I assume that either of you are that type of guy and girl, it's just a scenario!)
Wish I could say more, but it's 5:00, and I have a date of my own to get to. :)
Kristen, I will have to agree with Stan on this one. It all depends on what you want out of it, if you just want to get to know this guy again, go for it, who knows where it might go, just let him know where you stand.
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