Sunday, Feb. 01, 2004 - 1:31 p.m.
Ok, so the last couple of weekends.
Last Friday started horribly. At work, (I think I may have mentioned this previously) they have this habit of making plans and specifically excluding people. Friday, I became one of those people. I don't know if it was because the weekend before that I'd been the only girl and that stifled their guyness while hanging out or if it's just because I hang out with the people they label as weirdos (which is especially ironic where I work), but it still stings to be shunned like that.
So, that sucked. But Saturday made up for it. Saturday I went to a movie with two friends (one which I had not seen since before Christmas). The movie was so bad that it was fun. Then we headed to the bar.
Now, I usually don't have fun at bars, but this time was different. Me and Liz were approached by two guys. That never happens to me. And I give these guys credit because they weren't drunk at all and they were brave enough to walk up and try to strike up a conversation. The problem with them was, however, that when we asked what they did, they said they were "ass models."
That was cute if they'd acknowledged it was a joke and moved on. But no. The one guy just carried it too far, and it eventually became clear that we had nothing in common. The one guy played it very gracefully though (in my humble opinion) and said "well, it was nice to meet you guys, maybe we'll talk to you a little later, but we gotta go check on our friends."
After that, I met some other people that Liz knows before me and her headed to an almost empty bar down the road. There we met two friends of hers. They were very nice and we all headed to get some food when the girls younger brother (pre-twenty one) arrived. So, we could actually hear each other and had conversations. That's my kind of thing. And at the end of the evening they were all like "we'll see you around again right?"
This weekend no one seemed to be doing anything at all. One of the guys I work with was looking for something to do and so I said "you wanna come get dinner with me." We headed to the mall and waited in line at Macaroni Grill. There we ran into a couple I know and they joined us for dinner. And that was really nice. Then he headed home and me and them went to meet some other people and hang out.
It's nice when things like that happen because it makes me feel more like I live here. Like, when you can run into people you know, you actually kind of live somewhere.
