I have a bunch of half-written entries in the queue. This is actually today's.

[azurelunatic]

3/31 Tuesday
Got to work about 5 minutes before Purple, by the login times. He parked, as it would turn out, one over from me.
Lunch was good, peaceful.
I feel like I'm playing catch-up a lot.
I didn't have plans for tomorrow, but then I developed some. Heh.
StPatience is having a bad week :(

I was there in the parking lot and then THUNK! something hit me in the side of the head! It had been a moth. We speculated that it had been texting while flying.

That led to other discussions of texting-while-doing; I once fell down some (short) stairs due to reading while walking.

I wound up explaining the one-year gap in wearing my star. "A dude was involved" is a way I have come to sometimes explain some of my more random-seeming decisions to Purple. (I much less often do dumb-ass shit which involves ladies or honorable other-gendered sentients.) It has been quite some time since I actually laid out the reasons why I reacted differently to That Valentine's Day (wherein I was the third wheel in the next room from where the dude I liked banged someone else) and That Rather Bad Evening With Shawn (where the dude I liked banged someone else on the bed that I was trying to sleep on).

I called Kat on the way home. It was good to talk with her. Our brains work better when they are connected.

Now I am trying to get to bed early so I can go in to work and set up the thing.

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[sithjawa]

There is an insect of some kind that naps in the rosemary and divebombs me when I walk past at night. I don't know what it is because I never actually see it.

I had thought hawkmoths were east coast only until recently I started seeing them around here.

One of them is tomato hornworms. I had one of those last year but only one and I killed it.

[azurelunatic]

There is a Seanan story that involves tomato horn worms, so I am not surprised. Alas.

[metaphortunate]

Speaking as someone who once had someone show up at my door for a date with me along with the other guy she was, unbeknownst to me, simultaneously on a date with, I am comforted to know that other people have similar tales of completely botching the seduction.

[azurelunatic]

That Valentine's Day is sort of hilariously infamous in my lexicon of holidays.

Me: 20.
"Sis", later to become my roommate: 24
Darkside: 21

Previously, Sis and I had both discovered a crush on Darkside, as he was a really decent guy. We had quickly determined that polyamory was not an option for her and that we were both doing the "no after you" dance. So we walked up to Darkside on either side and simultaneously gave him a peck on the cheek and let him sort it out.

Fast-forward a few weeks & he has picked Sis. For reasons that made sense at the time, Sis had decided to follow him home after morning classes before work on Valentine's Day and surprise him; for reasons that made sense at the time I was still in the car with her. Fortunately he was basically pleased (but surprised) to see us. And given that it was Valentine's Day he tosses a videotape at me and is hauled into the bedroom.

Unfortunately his family had one of those 5-remote systems hooked up and I couldn't get it to do anything more than emit staticky broadcast tv. Which left me one rather thin wall away from where my best lady friend was banging the guy I was really kind of still head over heels for. Loudly banging.

Fortunately I found it hilarious.


With Shawn, I had been banging him fairly regularly, but he had refused to date me. I had introduced him to this chick I thought he could have casual sex with. Unfortunately, he started to get serious about her without really properly informing me. He seemed to think that 72 hours for her, 1 hour for me was equitable (72 hours in which he did not call and I had no idea where he was, in 1999). It was winter and 30 below (F) and we wound up at her place which was a crappy apartment in a crappy building that my parents had forbidden me to visit (along with the strip club and the skeezy sex toy shop) with her and the guy she had been banging. There was an ill-advised foursome after which she and Shawn and I tried to sleep on the bed and the other dude got the floor.

Shawn continued banging her while everyone else tried to sleep. This did not go well. I wound up in the shared kitchen/lounge area crying, as Shawn was my ride and it was like 3 am and -30 and too far to walk back to my dorm. Shawn came out and awkwardly tried to set up some sort of safeword via which he would know to drop everything and talk to me. Unfortunately he never did actually honor that...