First my parents, now the Sheriff. Owen has decided to take my social life into hand and has set me up with a friend of his wife's, a thirty-something, cycling vegetarian computer geek by the name of Simon. There's an email sitting in my inbox as we speak, waiting for an answer. Which I will do - he sounds nice enough, and it'd be nice to have a bit of social life in this place. Besides, he reads sci fi/fantasy and has a nifty quote about the evils of globalisation on his email. ;) Not that I'm looking for Twue Wuv - I'd settle at the moment for a friend.
And for that my boss is a whinger with tendancies to disappear and leave me carrying the can, he is fair. He let me go home at about three today, two hours early, since it was quiet and all my work was done and I'd finished the crossword. ;) BRM and Greta were here when I got back, and I was regaled with stories of cycling in Tasmania, which has made me highly enviious. BRM has taken a job at Wodonga High School, starting later this week - Wednesday or Thursday, IIRC. On the down side it means he'll still be around the place, and on the plus side it means he'll still be around the place. ;) What I mean is, I think we could probably be friends if we weren't living together, something I'm going to be broaching as soon as possible after he gets back from dropping Greta home (and going to the bank for my money, whoo!). To be fair, he'll need a few weeks to get sorted, get a bond together, find a place, which isn't entirely a bad thing - it means I won't have to pay full rent for a bit longer and I'll be able to pay off the card, but I'd like to see him out by the end of February, if possible. We can't keep living together, it's driving both of us nuts. And he certainly can't handle the idea of my dating. And I doubt either of us could handle listening to the other getting lucky - the walls here are too damn thin. ;)
Besides, as lonely as it has gotten on occasion, I've enjoyed living alone these past weeks. No pressure, no tiptoeing around, no having to ask permission or justify myself. Much less stressful.
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For those interested, I posted a kind of Epilogue post to Reality Strikes. Apologies if people had plans of any sort for this thread, but after three months, I figured that was as done as we were going to get. ;) Besides, there is a follow-up in the works, just need to get hold of a certain beer-drinking Canadian. The one without the carnivorous footwear. :)
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It's been raining this afternoon - I rode home in it, in fact - and things are much cooler. Top temperature yesterday was 40.7 degrees C/ 105 degrees F at around 5 in the afternoon - it was still 30/88 at midnight. No wonder I couldn't sleep. Looks like we get a break for a couple of days and then it heats up again by the weekend. Hopefully we'll be doing the rock climbing thing on Buffalo, where it's cooler.
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