Just from y'all, but I *know*. Like you know that Tim Bayliss did it in a coffin, and a few years later, kissed Sandy Cohen.

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you hooked it up? You're a rock star.

Groupie. He was in the band.

My keyboard is frelled from tvhe vhotv saucvevvv vvvvvvvisvsvvvvvue.vv

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You know, he didn't even know that Batman had more than one Robin, so I don't know *why* I ever thought he could be Mr. Least Wrong.

There are differences in background that just cannot be overcome.

I know exactly how you feel, Teppy, and sometimes it's just impossible to hum "Someday my prince will come." Just don't convince yourself that you're not smart, funny and attractive, because you are.

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Can someone remove my tongue? Apparently I can't say anything right today

See, I saw the first bit of this and thought "Ooh, where has she stuck her tongue that it needs removing? Iiiiiinteresting!". And then the second half was such a downer. :)

Teppy, big big big hugs. I so know the feeling.

And (this goes way beyond Teppy and is not just a commentary on her situation) sometimes I get so depressed, knowing that there are FABULOUS buffistas out there who are single and shouldn't be, and thinking "That's totally going to be me"--not that they aren't fabulous or don't have cool-ass lives, but...dude. I always figured I'm decently cool and with-it, I'ma meet someone, yeah? But then I see these other people who I dearly love and respect and they haven't and I think "maybe my chances ARE that low!". (And then it doesn't help that the few times I DO manage to attract someone, they tend to either be crazy, or I get sick of them way too quickly and start thinking I must be damaged, cause why wouldn't I like this person??). Er. Cause I"m fucked up, is what it is.

But I try to think of the cool b.orgers who HAVE found fabulous partners (even those who've found them HERE!) and be more optomistic. It only sometimes works though.

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{{{Tep}}} insent.

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Well, yes. I probably should have. But, you know what? I didn't. Also, I wasn't really asking for advice about this decision.

Damn straight.

Oh, Tep. I am so sorry. I do not get it. I really really don't. I mean, I get how you feel. I feel like that still. I just don't get why boys in Cincinatti are not all over ya. Seriously.

I think you need to move, for real.

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Oh, Tep. Gah. I'm so glad you had a good sympathetic pizza-baking friend there for you. And I fucking hate Crush!Boy -- rationally, I know that he's probably doing exactly what Cindy was talking about, heading you off at the pass and trying to do it gently precisely because he does care about you, but irrationally, I hate him.

You're smart, witty, sexy and sexually aware, truthful and loyal and a gifted writer and you have just uncannily perfect lips, and anyone who causes you to doubt yourself and feel bleak and unlovable and like all your whispering demons are whispering the truth, not to mention causes you to cry in front of a bunch of people you don't know that well -- the person who does that to you is someone I fucking hate with a deep burning passion. My dearest hope for him is that the next woman he falls hard for turns out to be an unrepentant Bush supporter with head lice.

Also, what everyone else said, but, as usual, most of all what Robin said.

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And I fucking hate Crush!Boy -- rationally, I know that he's probably doing exactly what Cindy was talking about, heading you off at the pass and trying to do it gently precisely because he does care about you, but irrationally, I hate him.

I don't think it's irrational to hate him, JZ. I think it is fun. I just think Teppy's deciding his horrible choice in women or utter lack of sex drive means thing one about her is faulty logic.

He's probably a nice EXTRAORDINARILY STUPID, DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, SEXLESS, BENEATH BITCH CONTEMPT guy, who didn't want to hurt her because for the one moment her managed to be right thinking, he was able to discern that she is a person worthy of respectful treatment.

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I don't hate a guy just because he isn't attracted to someone I think is fabulous. Hell, I am friends with several guys who weren't attracted to me--I mean there were LOTS of them over the years, it stands to reason some of them would end up my friends! One of BF's closest friends is a woman who dumped him after dating him for three weeks in Grad School. She's a great person, even if she couldn't see the splendidness which is the BF. One of his other friends is a woman who went out on one date with him and in the middle of dinner said "This isn't working for me." After a year or so, they met up again and have been friends ever since. We used to have dinner with her every month before she moved away from LA and once again, an awesome person except for the not digging BF part.

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Coming in very late on this, but Steph, I'm sorry this (one and only one guy who is obviously just not the right one but instead was just a placeholder so you didn't forget how to have a crush on someone and how goofily nice it can be to have a crush while you are having it) didn't work out for you.

Sometime, life is the one that sucks.

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