i can't figure out who to be mad at...
so i shall be mad at the whole wide world.
it was supposed to be an awesome me-and-alex-reunited-at-last weekend. nice dinner date slash cute movie on friday, various friends and cocktails on saturday, parents away visiting family in new jersey. time to just hang out since we haven't seen each other in more than a month. time to make downright excessive amounts of body contact. and then.
and then!
a phone call from alex today, which starts out "remember that story you told me once about the girl that went to visit her boyfriend at basic in shiloh but then his weekend off got revoked and she didn't get to see him and then she broke up with him?".
uh-huh. seems his rifle just was not quite clean enough, which means he fails inspection, which means the weekend is off. and i can't remember the last time i was this angry.
i mean sure, its just one more weekend, or something like that, but right now that feels like a LOT. and besides, that next weekend may or may not happen, and it'll be downright ghetto compared to this one, what with my parents being around and having to sleep in separate rooms. my summer's sort of empty at the moment so i really do feel like i'm waiting around for him to call or visit or whatever and that totally sucks.
the added bonus (.com) of this is that directly after delivering this news, he mentioned that he'd been offered another month of work in halifax, and that he was considering taking it, and how did i feel about that? if i have ever seen an example of bad timing, this was it. i told him in april that if he was going to be gone longer than two months, i didn't want to stay together for the summer, having had a taste of long-distance and it not being a very pretty one. i'm sure if i protest enough he won't take it, but still, what would possess him to think that was a good question to ask?
so that's me right now. more than a little bit pissed off. i brushed off two sets of plans (camping with bandies and going to new jersey with my parents to see my cousins) for this and now i have this gaping empty friday that i need to fill with fun stuff to keep my mind off it.
in other news, i had a really good time last weekend up at mare's cottage in tobermory. awesome people, a lot of clambering about on rocks, backyard fires at night and a didjeridoo. its the kind of thing that makes you feel really alive.
it was supposed to be an awesome me-and-alex-reunited-at-last weekend. nice dinner date slash cute movie on friday, various friends and cocktails on saturday, parents away visiting family in new jersey. time to just hang out since we haven't seen each other in more than a month. time to make downright excessive amounts of body contact. and then.
and then!
a phone call from alex today, which starts out "remember that story you told me once about the girl that went to visit her boyfriend at basic in shiloh but then his weekend off got revoked and she didn't get to see him and then she broke up with him?".
uh-huh. seems his rifle just was not quite clean enough, which means he fails inspection, which means the weekend is off. and i can't remember the last time i was this angry.
i mean sure, its just one more weekend, or something like that, but right now that feels like a LOT. and besides, that next weekend may or may not happen, and it'll be downright ghetto compared to this one, what with my parents being around and having to sleep in separate rooms. my summer's sort of empty at the moment so i really do feel like i'm waiting around for him to call or visit or whatever and that totally sucks.
the added bonus (.com) of this is that directly after delivering this news, he mentioned that he'd been offered another month of work in halifax, and that he was considering taking it, and how did i feel about that? if i have ever seen an example of bad timing, this was it. i told him in april that if he was going to be gone longer than two months, i didn't want to stay together for the summer, having had a taste of long-distance and it not being a very pretty one. i'm sure if i protest enough he won't take it, but still, what would possess him to think that was a good question to ask?
so that's me right now. more than a little bit pissed off. i brushed off two sets of plans (camping with bandies and going to new jersey with my parents to see my cousins) for this and now i have this gaping empty friday that i need to fill with fun stuff to keep my mind off it.
in other news, i had a really good time last weekend up at mare's cottage in tobermory. awesome people, a lot of clambering about on rocks, backyard fires at night and a didjeridoo. its the kind of thing that makes you feel really alive.