I'm gonna start a site called crankyalone.
Ah, I love this.
Funny to see everyone talking about dating, since that is what I spent 2 hours in the car yesterday discussing with my mother. Good times. I had two fairly serious relationships in college, although one was with a total fucking loser, and then in the last five years I have dated exactly one person, for all of six awkward and confusing weeks. I'm extremely leery of online dating sites (but see very few other ways of meeting single men in my area who are interested in dating women), so I generally can't be bothered, which is alternately totally OK with me and totally depressing.
But I'm cheerful today because I'm going to see
Brokeback Mountain
this afternoon! Although I suspect I will be significantly less cheery afterwards, and am stocking up on Kleenex in preparation.
I am already eating chocolate. At least I'll get out of work at 12:30 or so today.
The only word I hate more than quirky is kooky, which is what my Mom invariably calls anything I'm interested in, or do.
@@ My parents think I'm "edgy," which I think they think is cool.
I know I've said this before, but here is the reason I like online dating sites (and similar): Not because I'm going to meet my husband, but because it gets me used to talking to strangers. Which I generally avoid.
Maybe instead of a relationship, my goal will be to be abducted by super-intelligent aliens and used as their pet.
"Aww - he's so cute when he tries to explain his species's comprehension of quantum mechanics!"
As long as they don't have drunken parties where they make fun of my lack of a Unified Field Theory....
but I'm cheerful today because I'm going to see Brokeback Mountain this afternoon!
I suppose it says something about my quirkyaloneness is that I was perversely cheered up by that movie, because no matter how cranky and alone I am, I'm not as bad off as those characters, not by a long shot.
Oh, also -- the temp who was out yesterday? Got bit by a dog! On her nose! I was totally assuming she just bagged out on working, and wouldn't be in today, either.
Pilot dumps drunk man on island
The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife.
He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa.
After the plane touched down, the man was marched off by police and had his luggage dumped on the tarmac.
The plane and its remaining passengers then took off again for Tenerife, where it landed almost four hours late after the unscheduled stop.
Oh, also -- the temp who was out yesterday? Got bit by a dog! On her nose! I was totally assuming she just bagged out on working, and wouldn't be in today, either.
I just heard from my mother that a
moose once dog recently bit my
sister cousin's nose. Off. Well, part of it.
She was at her (other side of her family) cousin's ex's house for a party. My cousin grew up with a dog, has dogs now, and is a dog person, in general. The dog was gentle and friendly during the whole party. When my cousin got up to leave, the dog bit a chunk of her nose off, out of the blue. The dog is a Pit Bull, I guess, and apparently has bitten someone else, before.
Hmog! This was not a bite
off,
just a bite on. An English Bulldog, I think. They were having kisses when the dog got bitey. Oops.
My mother told me we'd get mumps if we let dogs (or cats, I'm pretty sure) get too close to our face.
Totally beats teeth in your nose.
I do enjoy getting confirmation of my no-licking-the-face policy. That means you too, msbelle!!!
