Showing posts with label boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boys. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Irisi strikes out again

The past week has had some marvelous incidents in which I have been:

- stood up
- calmly rejected
- probably totally misinterpreted something somebody said and am now super embarrassed about
- canceled on (AGAIN)
- mostly ignored

.... All with different individuals.

I have a strong desire to say "I QUIT" with relationships. I am too shy to follow up on eye flirtations at the bookstore, as my wee little heart is feeling trampled on. And as I sip my wine (my sole companion on these hot summer nights), I wonder when life became so focused on relationships, and when I started pressuring myself to find a mate. I wonder if I am destined to be like Samantha on Sex and the City: always floating from casual partner to casual partner, 50 and single... And then I wonder: is that really such a bad fate?

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Lessons learned today

1. Diet pepsi and rum go great together
2. The oblivious guys are, more often than not, actually quite perceptive
3. I need to learn to keep my mouth shut, the brass ovaries manuever has only led to personal distress every time I use it.


Looking back on the past year, I think I've experienced more than enough heartache to compensate for several years of being in stupid over serious relatioships. I quit. My life goal is to become a spinster.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

So long, Mr. Perfect

It was real, it was fun, and now you're on your way home.

There's safety in emotion when you know it couldn't be real, when the object of your affections lives across the country, or loves another person, or, even better, both.

Still hurts a twitch, though.

Love is a scam, concocted by poets, executed by actors, and experienced by willing flocks of hungry humans, who have forgotten the joy of living dangerously. Wouldn't it be beautiful if love stories were nonfiction? Sadly, they are not.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Love and stoplights can be cruel - Sesame Street

And on another adage, sometimes you don't know how much you loved something until you realize you may have lost. Or if you love something, you have to let it go. How can we trust sensations if they can so easily lead us astray? I swore myself to emotional celibacy, and look, for a year, I fulfilled it, and yet I fell for what I thought was a safe situation, and fell right on my face. I despise this cloying desperation, this irrational angst and bitter desire. I want to place blame, but am unsure where to place it: in myself, for trusting too easily, for a faulty gut instinct, for not realizing how badly I had emotionally entangled myself until it was too late, for continuing to grasp, as if just clenching my hand tighter will slow the flow of sand from it? In the other, for poor communication?

Or maybe I really am overreacting. Maybe the unreturned phone calls and gentle let downs are all in my head. Maybe I've just inflated a situation, maybe I'm just going crazy, maybe this longing is just attaching itself to a convenient scapegoat, when what I really hunger for is a sense of self or just.. human touch. Or maybe I'm just making more of a drama mess for myself. Maybe this is all a reflection of finals stress or something. Maybe it's actually all fine, and in a week I will delete this.

All I can remember is reading you a rumi poem and realizing that, for once, I understood it. I'm an idiot.

And I'm not sure why I'm posting these ramblings to the web. Perhaps because I'm tired of burdening my friends with my madness, and if I put them here I can pretend somebody reads them, get them off my chest, and carry on with life.

I always get over this stuff. It just stings.


And now, I drop the drama like the lava rock it is, and refocus: this week's project is.... Planning a trip to the grand canyon for my mom before she leaves the country forever! Alright! Go team distraction!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

A collection of names

Over the past year, a variety of men have passed in and out of my life. I am realizing today the set of Grey's Anatomy inspired names I've accrued for them. So, I will list as many as I can remember, in no particular order:

McSandwich
McMushy
The Yeast Infection
McMetal
CoastBoy
McBoring
McStupidface
McIdiot
Mushyman
Mr. Douchebag
McDoctor
McLawyer
The Hot Guy
The Club Guy