All of this was true pre-Jordan and now is true post-Jordan. (It’s been post Jordan for 5 months already, which seems really weird… I watched P.S I Love You yesterday and cried through the entire thinking wishing that I’d have known Jordan was going to die like they knew Jerry was going to. So there could have been a goodbye… Anyway, this is depressing.)
I was chatting away last night with a boy I’ve been seeing for a while. When out of no where he was like “where is this going?” and I was like “where is what going…” and he was like “Us, you need to start making time for us if we’re going somewhere.” …me, confused “I..I…can’t *make* time. That’s humanly impossible.” …P.J is not impressed “Don’t be cute I’m being serious”… the then goes off and tells me the following list (which he had written down!) about why I’ll never have a boyfriend for more than 2 weeks.
1. No time - This is 100% true, well… no it’s not. I make time for things I need to make time for. I work a 40 hour work week, and take the bus everywhere I go (for work that turns my 8 hour days into 10 hour days). I’m the president of a student club, and vice president of a Canadian charitable organization. I volunteer and write a lot for CFI and then I have three blogs that I am supposed to continuously prepare content for. Not to mention I have a couple people who I must stalk during the day, and I need 7 hours of sleep. So really, I don’t have time. But when I was long distancing with Royimous I made time for him… plenty of time. The time difference was SHITE, but I managed to put aside a lot of time for him. (I think LDing is easier for me…lol)
2. A hardcore and passionate atheist - When he said this I was like “uh, no shit.” but then he elaborated. P.J is not an atheist. He doesn’t think homeopathy is weird or a rip off. He doesn’t understand why my being involved with CFI, FAC, CSA, SSA and UGS are important. So that made it really hard for him when my excuse for not being able to do things was “I can’t, I have a UGS thing tonight” or “I can’t, I’m using my days off to go to Toronto for some CFI stuff.”
So it’s true. If I’m going to have a boyfriend for more than 2 weeks, he’s going to have to be just as into the whole secularist movement as I am - or he won’t get why I spend so much of my time doing what I do with them.
3. You’re Slightly apathetic -Not being the first person to tell me this, I had to get him to explain this a little bit. He said something like this “Well, it’s not that you don’t care. It’s that I see you get so angry and passionate about some things that are religious, philosophical or political. But even if I kicked you full force in the box, I don’t think you’d get mad at me. You’d just shrug it off. GET MAD AT ME.” …weird, eh?
4. You’re Pretty hard to impress -This tied in closely with the last one. I remember Alon telling me once that he told his new girlfriend “It’s easier to impress a cactus” That made me laugh for a while. I don’t remember the example he gave (but I’m sure he’ll post it if he remembers) but it was funny too. Anyway, P.J knows this isn’t true.
I’m not impressed by other people saying things that they think are original or weird, or off the wall. You can’t tell me a story about how fast your car is, how pimped out your computer is, that you beat GTA 4, that you can make a room full of people laugh, that you’re so weird you shit bats and expect me to care. Now, where he’s wrong is that he did some CUTE stuff, and I was impressed. And listening to people argue about science, philosophy, etc is impressive. Like when I heard Dr. Jeffery Shallit talk about how creationists abuse mathematics - I was hardcore impressed.
5. 3 hour phone conversations - I don’t do them.
6. You can’t manage “sexy talk” - …Like on IM, it’s just weird. Well, not weird. But I feel kind of silly. There is absolutely NO connection what-so-ever talking like that over IM. Phone or in person, sure… because there is at least a connection of the real you.
7. You’re picky… - He didn’t convince me of this one. It’s easy - smart and pretty. (Well, *my kind* of pretty… which usually just means “smart and funny” a writer is always a plus.)
8. You’re indecisive about life - …This is true. One day I’m going to be building a school in Africa helping African children get into universities and such the next minute I’m going to be living in a loft in California somewhere writing amazing books and then the next minute I’m going to be in school for the rest of my life studying rocks. …I don’t see why this is an issue though, if something came up that seemed like a good idea I’d go for it. He claims that this is hard to plan the future around - but if the future that is planned seems like something I’d want to do - I’ll do it. Getting married, buying a house and becoming a house wife in Guelph for the rest of my life isn’t something I’m going to do. Getting married and moving to Toronto (or any large city, just not Guelph or smaller) and both studying/teaching …sure, that sounds good. Having kids next year? Not likely. In 3 - 5 years? Yeah, sure that’s doable. …I’m not indecisive because I don’t know what I want to do. I’m indecisive because I want to do a lot of things and one clear path hasn’t formulated in front of me yet.
9. You’re not interested in a 2 month “thing” - yeah, because I’m not 15 anymore.
So that was his list that I couldn’t believe he made. Who honestly comes up with LISTS about other people? Anyway… that ended that because I won’t stop attending FAC meetings, agree to be married in a month, pretend to be excited over things and talk on the phone all night.
I can’t wait for the Sex and the City movie to come out… 28 days.
