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Friday April 17, 09
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11:19 PM - It's like going with your grandpa...
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Younger dude may be younger, but I completely outlasted him tonight.
First, he said he was coming to pick me up at 6:30. Cocktails started at 6:30 and it would take about half an hour to drive, park, and walk, but he wanted to be "fashionably late."
He was fashionably late by about 25 minutes in picking me up, so that we missed cocktails all together and made it in time for the meal portion.
(I still got my drinks, but still...it's nice to hang around and talk to people).
The meal part maybe lasted a couple of hours. The party was moved across the street to this other bar so that people could continue hanging out.
He didn't particularly want to go to that!
We went over, but he was ready to leave by 10:30.
I agreed because he was obviously the one driving and I'm not going to force people to stay out if they don't want...but I was like "seriously?"
Of course, during the course of the evening, I bumped into one of the band members. He's a peripheral band member who is not a law student but functioned as a fellow law student's "date" if you know what I'm saying. He's supposedly dating somebody, but my guess is that the charms of hot blond lawyer (who is actually starting to look like a junior league mom at age 26) are starting to win out.
Anyway, he told me that the band is playing tomorrow at some gig that has to do with the Farmer's Market. Guess who didn't know about this? ME!
yes, interesting how there were effusive "we like your sound...we want to add your material..." words but there are no steps towards inclusion to the point that I don't know jack shit about any of it.
I can't figure out if he's just being a dumb guy that doesn't think of women as part of "the band" or if there is something else going on.
I find it interesting that his buddy that apparently had a big crush on me (and who I never got to properly meet in part due to Robo's meddling) is apparently coming to town this weekend...but there haven't been any further attempts to bring me around to meet him. Is it because I accepted a date to the banquet tonight with grandpa? I told him about it. Maybe he took strong offense that I would go on another date while his childhood friend carried a torch, but come on....it's logistics we're talking about here, and not only that I've had enough of this sitting around and waiting for shit that may/may not happen.
Or maybe Robo's constant presence has made him feel like he's forced to choose sides. It's not particularly what I wanted a "choose sides" sort of thing. It's that Robo's behavior in always hanging around has kind of turned it into that. I told LG the story just for background purposes. Robo started showing up to the weekly gigs, but then stepped it up by calling those guys all the time.
At any rate, I shouldn't be surprised considering that he didn't express any remorse that I didn't know he wasn't showing up. As I said, I don't know if it's because I've "betrayed his friend" in not holding out for him and I no longer serve a purpose or what.
Then again, I admit that I haven't exactly warmed up to that bunch socially. It's kind of hard to do because I feel awkward around LG's girl friend because I feel like the woman that shouldn't be there. So, I feel weird in trying to do anything socially with him because it feels like I'm trodding on her space....for obvious reasons.
It would be easier if I was actually dating someone and not simply showing up with baggage in tow, but there ya go. That's the lot dealt to me in life.
But anyway...yes, I was disappointed in tonight. I feel like when one puts in the effort to find and buy a dress (like I did) that it should be WORN IN PUBLIC. This "let's go out for a grand total of 3 hours" is just kinda sad and unnecessary. it makes you wonder why he even bothered going to the banquet if his idea of going was just to go eat and then split.
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