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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

HA but actually he just texted to say that they are coming to pick me up and are on their way. I LOVE LAST MINUTE CHANGES OF PLANS. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE BEING INFORMED THAT ACTUALLY YOU ARE GONNA DO SOMETHING AN HOUR EARLIER THAN EXPECTED.

I guess that means there's no time for me to eat.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

So, my boyfriend has been a huge pain in the ass to spend any time with at all for the last six weeks or so. I think I gotta call it, but it's really hard to break up with someone YOU NEVER SEE.

Then

This week, he has a friend in town. Friend turns out to be vegan. This is Portland, so every restaurant has vegan options, but apparently she has to eat at a pure untainted vegan establishment. .

Am I the only person seeing the potential, here?

I think I missed my chance.

I am going to go meet them at a non-vegan bar after dinner, though.

Wait, just so we're clear, we ARE talking about slapping the vegan in the face with a large kielbasa, right? that is immediately what my mind jumped to

[EK WAFFLR]

My grandfather (the one who survived cancer twice) died this morning. Blood poisoning. I'm devastated.

Sorry to hear that.   

Thanks, Roger.

[Doktor Howl]

So, my boyfriend has been a huge pain in the ass to spend any time with at all for the last six weeks or so. I think I gotta call it, but it's really hard to break up with someone YOU NEVER SEE.

Then

This week, he has a friend in town. Friend turns out to be vegan. This is Portland, so every restaurant has vegan options, but apparently she has to eat at a pure untainted vegan establishment. .

Am I the only person seeing the potential, here?

I think I missed my chance.

I am going to go meet them at a non-vegan bar after dinner, though.

Wait, just so we're clear, we ARE talking about slapping the vegan in the face with a large kielbasa, right? that is immediately what my mind jumped to

Naw.  You ask questions about Veganism.  Then you ask more.  And more.  AND MORE.

HORRIBLE SOCRATIC DEATH.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I behaved myself.

I did not break up with him in front of his out of town guests, that would have been rude.

[Faust]

I behaved myself.

I did not break up with him in front of his out of town guests, that would have been rude.

I take it he didn't woo you into changing your mind though

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I behaved myself.

I did not break up with him in front of his out of town guests, that would have been rude.

I take it he didn't woo you into changing your mind though

Nope. Though I was reminded of how much I actually like him, I just would like to be able to see him maybe once a week at a reasonably normal time of day or night without it being a gigantic pain in my ass.

I just don't have time for things to be difficult.

[Faust]

I behaved myself.

I did not break up with him in front of his out of town guests, that would have been rude.

I take it he didn't woo you into changing your mind though

Nope. Though I was reminded of how much I actually like him, I just would like to be able to see him maybe once a week at a reasonably normal time of day or night without it being a gigantic pain in my ass.

I just don't have time for things to be difficult.

That's a shame, Sounds like even talking to him about the issue would be difficult if you cant actually get time with him.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I behaved myself.

I did not break up with him in front of his out of town guests, that would have been rude.

I take it he didn't woo you into changing your mind though

Nope. Though I was reminded of how much I actually like him, I just would like to be able to see him maybe once a week at a reasonably normal time of day or night without it being a gigantic pain in my ass.

I just don't have time for things to be difficult.

That's a shame, Sounds like even talking to him about the issue would be difficult if you cant actually get time with him.

Yeah, exactly.

[Doktor Howl]

Yanno, I'm a really busy guy, by which I mean there are endless things that keep me away from the house.

Or would, if I didn't FORCE time for Jenn.  Not as much as I would like, but at least a couple of waking hours a day, bare minimum.

It isn't easy, but I do it because I want to be with her.  If I didn't, I imagine she'd leave me.

Just saying.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

As school gradually ramps into Finals week (with a midterm one week before Finals, for good measure) I am gradually having a complete meltdown. I can't fucking do this and also FUCK HOLIDAYS.

OK, with that out of the way, I've been fiddling with my car and it looks like the problem may lie in the simple fact that last time I replaced my brake lights, the douche at the auto supply store absolutely insisted that I had the wrong bulbs in and sold me different bulbs from the ones I've been using for years. He looked it up on the computer and was like "Nope, you need these ones". Stupidly, I believed him.

They're completely and utterly the wrong bulbs for my car. Like not even within the realm of acceptable replacements. I was using the correct bulbs to begin with, which I should probably have been able to deduce from the fact that I have been driving Volvo station wagons for 14 fucking years and the correct bulb has always been the 1156.

Sooooo

I need to replace the incorrect bulbs that I JUST bought, and hope that fucktard didn't cause me to burn out my relay. That fucker costs like $65 on a good day.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yanno, I'm a really busy guy, by which I mean there are endless things that keep me away from the house.

Or would, if I didn't FORCE time for Jenn.  Not as much as I would like, but at least a couple of waking hours a day, bare minimum.

It isn't easy, but I do it because I want to be with her.  If I didn't, I imagine she'd leave me.

Just saying.

Yeah, I gotcha.

It shouldn't be this hard. He HAS free time. He just chooses not to schedule time to see me, and then it ends up not happening.

And I am not, any possible appearances to the contrary, a spontaneous person. I keep this thing rolling by meticulous time management, I'm not a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants type.

[Doktor Howl]

Yanno, I'm a really busy guy, by which I mean there are endless things that keep me away from the house.

Or would, if I didn't FORCE time for Jenn.  Not as much as I would like, but at least a couple of waking hours a day, bare minimum.

It isn't easy, but I do it because I want to be with her.  If I didn't, I imagine she'd leave me.

Just saying.

Yeah, I gotcha.

It shouldn't be this hard. He HAS free time. He just chooses not to schedule time to see me, and then it ends up not happening.

And I am not, any possible appearances to the contrary, a spontaneous person. I keep this thing rolling by meticulous time management, I'm not a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants type.

I was directing my comment at him.  You have stated already that he has free time.  If I had more free time than Jenn, I'd be organizing my free time in a manner to coincide with hers.  That's just part of the work you have to put into a relationship.

He sounds like a nice guy, but one indisposed to do the work required to make a relationship happen.

[Doktor Howl]

and also FUCK HOLIDAYS.

Only in the West could we take the idea of a day off and turn it into 60 days of horrible stress.

Do you part, Nigel...Pimp slap a Salvation Army Santa today.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yanno, I'm a really busy guy, by which I mean there are endless things that keep me away from the house.

Or would, if I didn't FORCE time for Jenn.  Not as much as I would like, but at least a couple of waking hours a day, bare minimum.

It isn't easy, but I do it because I want to be with her.  If I didn't, I imagine she'd leave me.

Just saying.

Yeah, I gotcha.

It shouldn't be this hard. He HAS free time. He just chooses not to schedule time to see me, and then it ends up not happening.

And I am not, any possible appearances to the contrary, a spontaneous person. I keep this thing rolling by meticulous time management, I'm not a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants type.

I was directing my comment at him.  You have stated already that he has free time.  If I had more free time than Jenn, I'd be organizing my free time in a manner to coincide with hers.  That's just part of the work you have to put into a relationship.

He sounds like a nice guy, but one indisposed to do the work required to make a relationship happen.

Yeah, I think that a lifetime on the lower Haight working nights and dating other ambitionless, childless, responsibility-less people makes him a poor match for me.