Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Hey, MG. Happy new year!
Hi. Jay. To you, too. How was yours?
Good. You know, out with a bunch of friends. Same for you?
Yeah, just, ah, not exactly.
No? What did you do?
Well, I was supposed to go to this party, but it sort of fell through at the last minute.
No kidding.
Yeah, turned out on closer inspection that it was going to be a really couply sort of thing, and the guy who I was going to go with had sort of neglected to tell me that.
Oh. So?
So, it would have been like eight couples and this guy I'm not into. Which makes us sort of an automatic couple. And he knows I'm not into him, so it was kind of a sneaky move. So I bowed out, and I was planning to go to this other thing I'd heard about.
That's alright, then.
But I only had a number for one person who was going to that, and I was trying to get a hold of her to find out where it was, but her cell didn't even ring, just kept going straight to voice mail.
Bummer.
Yeah, she always lets the battery die down. So, I called these other friends to see if it was too late to tag along with them, but by then they were heading out for dinner, and it was one of those expensive prix-fixe deals, and it was too late to change the reservation, even if I did feel like paying 75 bucks for a meal at a place I go to all the time for mac and cheese anyway.
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a great plan. Did you just hit a local bar?
Nah, seemed kind of desperate. I figured I'd look like I was trying to get hit on by drunk dudes if I went alone.
Drunk dudes will always think you want to get hit on.
Yeah, and on new year's they'd actually have an excuse to try to slobber on you. So.
So?
So, I opened up a bottle of white wine I've had forever, and finished up my last pack of cigarettes. Watched Dick Clark until that got too depressing, thought about some resolutions and went to bed, happy knowing that at least I still had the next night to go out, since Monday was a holiday.
Oh. MG, we didn't have Monday off.
Yeah. I heard about that. So much for the whole 'being more responsible about work' resolution.
Wow. You didn't waste any time with that one.
Nope. If you're going to break a resolution, I guess you might as well get right in there and throttle it to death.
Hm.
Didn't really stand a chance anyway, now that I think about it.
Hi. Jay. To you, too. How was yours?
Good. You know, out with a bunch of friends. Same for you?
Yeah, just, ah, not exactly.
No? What did you do?
Well, I was supposed to go to this party, but it sort of fell through at the last minute.
No kidding.
Yeah, turned out on closer inspection that it was going to be a really couply sort of thing, and the guy who I was going to go with had sort of neglected to tell me that.
Oh. So?
So, it would have been like eight couples and this guy I'm not into. Which makes us sort of an automatic couple. And he knows I'm not into him, so it was kind of a sneaky move. So I bowed out, and I was planning to go to this other thing I'd heard about.
That's alright, then.
But I only had a number for one person who was going to that, and I was trying to get a hold of her to find out where it was, but her cell didn't even ring, just kept going straight to voice mail.
Bummer.
Yeah, she always lets the battery die down. So, I called these other friends to see if it was too late to tag along with them, but by then they were heading out for dinner, and it was one of those expensive prix-fixe deals, and it was too late to change the reservation, even if I did feel like paying 75 bucks for a meal at a place I go to all the time for mac and cheese anyway.
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a great plan. Did you just hit a local bar?
Nah, seemed kind of desperate. I figured I'd look like I was trying to get hit on by drunk dudes if I went alone.
Drunk dudes will always think you want to get hit on.
Yeah, and on new year's they'd actually have an excuse to try to slobber on you. So.
So?
So, I opened up a bottle of white wine I've had forever, and finished up my last pack of cigarettes. Watched Dick Clark until that got too depressing, thought about some resolutions and went to bed, happy knowing that at least I still had the next night to go out, since Monday was a holiday.
Oh. MG, we didn't have Monday off.
Yeah. I heard about that. So much for the whole 'being more responsible about work' resolution.
Wow. You didn't waste any time with that one.
Nope. If you're going to break a resolution, I guess you might as well get right in there and throttle it to death.
Hm.
Didn't really stand a chance anyway, now that I think about it.
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