the good, the bad, and the...irresponsible man-child
So...I'm gonna start this entry out with some good things, because I've done a lot of ranting lately and think it'd pay to write an entry that's a little more upbeat.
First: I'M SEEING SPAMALOT TOMORROW! Sweet Jesus, YES!! The one extremely slight drawback is that I traded in my weekly dose of Babylon 5 for this, but I'll still most likely get to hang out with the fabulous people who make up the B5 crew after being spammed, so it's all good! Besides, it's SPAMALOT! Which I have desired to see since its inception, like any good Monty Python fan! JOY!!! Good comedy with good friends followed by hanging out with equally good friends -- could there be anything better?
In I'm Never Going Back to Barnes & Noble if I can Help it News, I think I have a pretty good chance of landing a job at Webster Bank. I'd really rather work at Peoples, because then I'd be working, like, five minutes from my house, but landing any bank job at this point would be really freaking cool. So, yeah, I'm excited!
I'm also getting kind of excited about my "research proposal" (I'm putting it in quotes because I won't actually be getting to do any research :/). The prospect of writing it had me a bit anxious at first, but now that I've got a clear goal in mind and I've spent some time mining past research, I'm starting to enjoy it.
And, the icing on the cake is that I met someone absolutely wonderful last night. I'm having difficulty putting into words exactly what went on and how I feel; maybe I'll be able to later, and I can give the awesomeness of last night the space that it deserves. But, in any case, he's a lovely person, and I can't wait to see him again.
Things have occurred, however, that have made me...rather angry today. It is doomy.
Yeah. So. Mike. What is it with people named Mike? I do not know. Man. I really dislike the fact that, once again, I am writing about him. But what can I say? He does things that are infuriating, and when I am infuriated, I need to vent.
First of all, it would appear that, contrary to my belief that everything had been worked out between us and that there was a possibility of us being friends (and yes, despite everything, I sincerely did want to try to be friends with him), he wants to cut off contact with me. I have reason to believe that this is because I dared to call him out on something he did wrong.
But that, my friends, is not what really gets me. Oh no. What gets me is what he is currently doing to Danielle.
For those of you who don't know, when I was dating Mike, Danielle was letting him stay with her until he could find an apartment. During this period, his truck broke down, and he had to get a new car. Guess where said truck is, a month and a half after he moved into his own place? In the parking lot of Danielle's complex. Her landlord came to her today and told her that it needs to be gone by Monday. So, naturally, she got in contact with Mike.
He proceeded to tell her that, since it's technically been repo'd, it's no longer his responsibility. He'd done his part, he said, by leaving the keys and a note inside the truck (UH?). He gave her the number of the claims agency that now "owns" the vehicle and told her that, if she needed it to be towed, she should call them. Her reaction, of course, was "WTF" and she basically told him that it definitely still was, in fact, his responsibility and that the whole thing should have been taken care of a while ago. Ya know how he responded? Kid told her to get off her high horse (huh?), that his life is terrible and he's too poor and in too much of a rut to worry about a broke-down truck, that she should just deal with having to call the claims agency for a tow and that he'd pay her back if it wound up costing anything (so...why couldn't he just call for the tow himself?), and that she should leave him alone because he "left Pennsylvania for a reason."
So, Danielle, seeing herself as having few other options, called the claims agency -- who, of course, told her that it was Mike's responsibility and that he'd have to call them! Who woulda thunk it? But, get this -- she can't get in contact with Mike to tell him this because he has now changed his phone number and cut off all ties with her. In the space of a few hours! Guys, he even deleted her from his MySpace friends list, which seems silly until you view it in the context of all else that has just gone on.
Keep in mind that they've known each other for ten years and that, as I've said, she let him stay at her place when he had nowhere else to go. This man is throwing away the friendship of someone who has supported him and stood by him for years simply because she told him to take care of something that was his responsibility. I mean, christ. And he's been freaking out because he and his new girl have been having issues, and he's all, "I really want to try to figure out what it takes to have a good relationship," and I'm sitting here like, "you might want to start by growing up, taking care of your responsibilities, dealing with your mistakes instead of blaming them on everyone else and then running away (sometimes to whole other states), and becoming, ya know, less self-absorbed."
I guess I should say "good riddance." Man, I don't have any problem doing that. But the fact that he's suddenly pulling all of this bullshit on Danielle makes me...well, it makes me want to give him a piece of my mind. Unfortunately, I don't think it would do anything. So I'll just have to stick to my righteous indignation and be done with it.
All of that aside, however, I think it's safe to say that things are going well (whoooa check that transition!). I'm happy overall, and I know that the anger that I currently feel will subside. It's already starting to now that I've gotten the story out of my system...
Alllllways look on the bright, siiiiide of life... *doo-doot...*
First: I'M SEEING SPAMALOT TOMORROW! Sweet Jesus, YES!! The one extremely slight drawback is that I traded in my weekly dose of Babylon 5 for this, but I'll still most likely get to hang out with the fabulous people who make up the B5 crew after being spammed, so it's all good! Besides, it's SPAMALOT! Which I have desired to see since its inception, like any good Monty Python fan! JOY!!! Good comedy with good friends followed by hanging out with equally good friends -- could there be anything better?
In I'm Never Going Back to Barnes & Noble if I can Help it News, I think I have a pretty good chance of landing a job at Webster Bank. I'd really rather work at Peoples, because then I'd be working, like, five minutes from my house, but landing any bank job at this point would be really freaking cool. So, yeah, I'm excited!
I'm also getting kind of excited about my "research proposal" (I'm putting it in quotes because I won't actually be getting to do any research :/). The prospect of writing it had me a bit anxious at first, but now that I've got a clear goal in mind and I've spent some time mining past research, I'm starting to enjoy it.
And, the icing on the cake is that I met someone absolutely wonderful last night. I'm having difficulty putting into words exactly what went on and how I feel; maybe I'll be able to later, and I can give the awesomeness of last night the space that it deserves. But, in any case, he's a lovely person, and I can't wait to see him again.
Things have occurred, however, that have made me...rather angry today. It is doomy.
Yeah. So. Mike. What is it with people named Mike? I do not know. Man. I really dislike the fact that, once again, I am writing about him. But what can I say? He does things that are infuriating, and when I am infuriated, I need to vent.
First of all, it would appear that, contrary to my belief that everything had been worked out between us and that there was a possibility of us being friends (and yes, despite everything, I sincerely did want to try to be friends with him), he wants to cut off contact with me. I have reason to believe that this is because I dared to call him out on something he did wrong.
But that, my friends, is not what really gets me. Oh no. What gets me is what he is currently doing to Danielle.
For those of you who don't know, when I was dating Mike, Danielle was letting him stay with her until he could find an apartment. During this period, his truck broke down, and he had to get a new car. Guess where said truck is, a month and a half after he moved into his own place? In the parking lot of Danielle's complex. Her landlord came to her today and told her that it needs to be gone by Monday. So, naturally, she got in contact with Mike.
He proceeded to tell her that, since it's technically been repo'd, it's no longer his responsibility. He'd done his part, he said, by leaving the keys and a note inside the truck (UH?). He gave her the number of the claims agency that now "owns" the vehicle and told her that, if she needed it to be towed, she should call them. Her reaction, of course, was "WTF" and she basically told him that it definitely still was, in fact, his responsibility and that the whole thing should have been taken care of a while ago. Ya know how he responded? Kid told her to get off her high horse (huh?), that his life is terrible and he's too poor and in too much of a rut to worry about a broke-down truck, that she should just deal with having to call the claims agency for a tow and that he'd pay her back if it wound up costing anything (so...why couldn't he just call for the tow himself?), and that she should leave him alone because he "left Pennsylvania for a reason."
So, Danielle, seeing herself as having few other options, called the claims agency -- who, of course, told her that it was Mike's responsibility and that he'd have to call them! Who woulda thunk it? But, get this -- she can't get in contact with Mike to tell him this because he has now changed his phone number and cut off all ties with her. In the space of a few hours! Guys, he even deleted her from his MySpace friends list, which seems silly until you view it in the context of all else that has just gone on.
Keep in mind that they've known each other for ten years and that, as I've said, she let him stay at her place when he had nowhere else to go. This man is throwing away the friendship of someone who has supported him and stood by him for years simply because she told him to take care of something that was his responsibility. I mean, christ. And he's been freaking out because he and his new girl have been having issues, and he's all, "I really want to try to figure out what it takes to have a good relationship," and I'm sitting here like, "you might want to start by growing up, taking care of your responsibilities, dealing with your mistakes instead of blaming them on everyone else and then running away (sometimes to whole other states), and becoming, ya know, less self-absorbed."
I guess I should say "good riddance." Man, I don't have any problem doing that. But the fact that he's suddenly pulling all of this bullshit on Danielle makes me...well, it makes me want to give him a piece of my mind. Unfortunately, I don't think it would do anything. So I'll just have to stick to my righteous indignation and be done with it.
All of that aside, however, I think it's safe to say that things are going well (whoooa check that transition!). I'm happy overall, and I know that the anger that I currently feel will subside. It's already starting to now that I've gotten the story out of my system...
Alllllways look on the bright, siiiiide of life... *doo-doot...*