I'm Aimee and Stephanie!

Awesome! This means I should be getting thinner and gaining awesome fashion and make-up sense any day now!

Why won't you tell me the library hours?

People actually *go* to the library?

But I don't consider that poly, I consider that having close friends. In my head, poly = having multiple close, loving, sexual relationships.

Yeah, that's where the definition of poly gets wonkified in my head, also. There are men and women that I love and have close relationships with outside of Joe.

Well, I can't figure out another way of getting the physical book. If only they could shove it through the Internet...

People actually *go* to the library?

Yes, when they need to find some books for a report on Stalin.

Well, I can't figure out another way of getting the physical book. If only they could shove it through the Internet...

Google Books?

Hey look! I'm Aimee and Stephanie!

So Pete is in a polyamorous relationship!!!

Oh, and in entirely random adorable kids stuff -- one of my classmates has an eight-year-old son. Yesterday, the son went to the school nurse because he had some sort of rash on his hands. The nurse called his mother and said that she had to come pick him up, because he could not be in school with a rash. Of course, by the time she got there, the rash was almost entirely gone, but the nurse insisted that he couldn't stay in school. So, his mother brought him to the university with her, because she had some meetings to attend and a class to teach. While she was teaching, she had him sit at a desk at the back of the room, and gave him some paper and a pencil to draw with. Instead of drawing, he took notes. Copied down all the calculus stuff that his mother was writing on the board. So she's now got several pages of calculus in eight-year-old's handwriting taped to the wall behind her desk. It's so cute.

I was about to start pulling a thread on what constitutes a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship and what is just having sex with someone else who I see sometimes, but, ah...no. I don't think I really get to decide that

Heh. Yeah, I've been wrestling with that myself. Though I was talking with two coworkers a few months ago, and two of us were like "we're fine kissing other people and having our partners kiss other people, as long as we go hom eat the end of the night!" and the other one was horrified. It made me laugh.

But then I found myself having both the NotGirlfriend, and the 22 year old. Hrm. I feel like with the 22 year old, it was not a girlfriend in anyway (even a poly one) because (a) we hadn't discussed that and (b) I don't feel like I have any say at all in who/what else she does (or vice versa). With the NotGirlfriend, there would've been a conversation about who she was seeing--not that I would have veto power, but...

Of course now the NotGirlfriend is not in ANY way a gf anymore (we just had that conversation Monday), and I'm still hoping ot see the 22 year old in a month when I go back to DC, so....yeah.

I'm apparently the opposite of Emily--the idea of my partners having sex with other poeple makes me a bit pouty, but I"m so independent that I don't want them to be attention-needy...

stomps into corner of the thread, starts building a pillow fort

That's it. I give up. Not only has everyone else on my team found other jobs, I just found out the PM I was working with has accepted a position at another company. I feel like I'm starring in some sort of survivalist horror movie, but without the fun of fighting zombies.