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kerpingtack) wrote2011-11-09 11:50 pm
kerpingtack) wrote2011-11-09 11:50 pm
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This is a post about how I missed yesterday's post because I fell asleep at 10 PM.
I've been listening to Jimmy Eat World a lot lately. They are great to sing in the car. Futures and Clarity, both the albums and the eponymous title songs, are really good.
I had a shit morning, but the rest of the day was much better. Except I think the lawyer I'm "graphic designing" for (it's a brochure and I just move text boxes around lol) winked at me and it weirded me out. It wasn't flirtatious, it was, like, ~cute?? But still. NO WINKING!!!
Apropos nothing, a couple of weeks ago I found out that my DISASTROUS blind date from last summer is gay. I know this shouldn't make me feel better, but it does, because it is nice to have even the broadest of explanations for why that date was as godawful as it was. Like, seriously. The two people who set us up came with us and I didn't even know either of them well in the first place, let alone the dude ("Kyle" who studied accounting in Paris and now worked for someone called the Helicopter Plumber), and we sat in Starbucks for legit two hours until it closed and they talked about stocks and bonds and real estate and how to make money and they were all Republicans and the dude COMPLETELY ignored me and it was so boring. I found it funny after a little bit because I stopped being nervous; it was like "wow this is legitimately a TERRIBLE FUCKING DATE. and none of this is my fault! enjoy the free pastries, self." (The Starbucks people gave us their extra pastries because it was closing time lol. Most of them were dry and tasteless, but free food is free food.) Was the date done after Starbucks? NO, because there was still a CIGAR LOUNGE to go to. A CIGAR LOUNGE!!!!! What even is that thing?!!? Let me tell you: it's basically a room full of armchairs and white dudes smoking cigars. That's it! So we went and I was like o m g what is happening in my life. And one of the dudes showed me where ~Arnold Schwarzenegger~ himself kept his cigars for when he visited that particular establishment. And I sat there drinking water and looking fifteen years old while they drank beer and talked to this random weird guy who worked on a bunch of different oil rigs and I think the bartender lady took pity on me because when a customer came in with this tiny little dog she came over to us and let me hold it lol. And when it was time to go the people who set us up made the dude walk me to the car and we had an awkward side hug. THEN I DROVE HOME THINKING "I CAN'T BELIEVE I SPENT THE PAST THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE THAT WAY." Also it was kinda weird because all three of the people I was with were super tall, older looking white guys and I was NONE of those things, AT ALL.
PS, I seriously don't think "Kyle" spoke more than three sentences to me that entire date. This dude is still a complete mystery to me, I didn't learn shit about him. Why did he go to Paris? Paris, France even, not fakey Paris, Texas or whatever. He was such a bro, he looked like he sold cell phones at the mall. Why was he working with the Helicopter Plumber if he was studying to be an accountant? Why did he agree to go on a blind date? Why did he let that happen to us????
awwwwrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh I did not adequately factor in how fucking tired I would be this month :c
OH ALSO this is my new icon! Icon full of Corgis!!
I've been listening to Jimmy Eat World a lot lately. They are great to sing in the car. Futures and Clarity, both the albums and the eponymous title songs, are really good.
I had a shit morning, but the rest of the day was much better. Except I think the lawyer I'm "graphic designing" for (it's a brochure and I just move text boxes around lol) winked at me and it weirded me out. It wasn't flirtatious, it was, like, ~cute?? But still. NO WINKING!!!
Apropos nothing, a couple of weeks ago I found out that my DISASTROUS blind date from last summer is gay. I know this shouldn't make me feel better, but it does, because it is nice to have even the broadest of explanations for why that date was as godawful as it was. Like, seriously. The two people who set us up came with us and I didn't even know either of them well in the first place, let alone the dude ("Kyle" who studied accounting in Paris and now worked for someone called the Helicopter Plumber), and we sat in Starbucks for legit two hours until it closed and they talked about stocks and bonds and real estate and how to make money and they were all Republicans and the dude COMPLETELY ignored me and it was so boring. I found it funny after a little bit because I stopped being nervous; it was like "wow this is legitimately a TERRIBLE FUCKING DATE. and none of this is my fault! enjoy the free pastries, self." (The Starbucks people gave us their extra pastries because it was closing time lol. Most of them were dry and tasteless, but free food is free food.) Was the date done after Starbucks? NO, because there was still a CIGAR LOUNGE to go to. A CIGAR LOUNGE!!!!! What even is that thing?!!? Let me tell you: it's basically a room full of armchairs and white dudes smoking cigars. That's it! So we went and I was like o m g what is happening in my life. And one of the dudes showed me where ~Arnold Schwarzenegger~ himself kept his cigars for when he visited that particular establishment. And I sat there drinking water and looking fifteen years old while they drank beer and talked to this random weird guy who worked on a bunch of different oil rigs and I think the bartender lady took pity on me because when a customer came in with this tiny little dog she came over to us and let me hold it lol. And when it was time to go the people who set us up made the dude walk me to the car and we had an awkward side hug. THEN I DROVE HOME THINKING "I CAN'T BELIEVE I SPENT THE PAST THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE THAT WAY." Also it was kinda weird because all three of the people I was with were super tall, older looking white guys and I was NONE of those things, AT ALL.
PS, I seriously don't think "Kyle" spoke more than three sentences to me that entire date. This dude is still a complete mystery to me, I didn't learn shit about him. Why did he go to Paris? Paris, France even, not fakey Paris, Texas or whatever. He was such a bro, he looked like he sold cell phones at the mall. Why was he working with the Helicopter Plumber if he was studying to be an accountant? Why did he agree to go on a blind date? Why did he let that happen to us????
awwwwrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh I did not adequately factor in how fucking tired I would be this month :c
OH ALSO this is my new icon! Icon full of Corgis!!
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I hate when people wink at me. It's almost always old men, too, and I have no idea what they mean by it. It's so creepy and weird...
That does sound like a horrible date. I didn't even know cigar lounges existed; I'm sorry you had to go to it! (I think that beats out going to a bar on the first date, lol.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glii-kazad8
http://i44.tinypic.com/10zzeqc.jpg (kekeke)
I thought that I found winking cute, but I guess it's only cute when kpop idols do it to a general audience/because they're programmed to do it. It's really weird when someone irl does it!! IA, what do they mean?? It's so unnecessary!
ty for your condolences; I was amazed at how bad it was lol. I didn't know cigar lounges existed either! Or that ~Arnold Schwarzenegger~ himself frequented one. That part of the evening definitely felt surreal. The one I went to (there's MORE THAN ONE in a city lol irl) had like leather armchairs and dim lighting. And they had a special room for the expensive imported cigars that had to kept at a certain temperature. It was all meant to be pretty impressive and it was, in a very ridiculous way. (& LOL, that's true ;;)
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CORGIS
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I love corgis and not just because jjong is one. (Though that adds a lot to the love lol.)
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