Romance Update AKA the Gentle Success of the Shel
Alright.
Met Central American Man outside after my shift. I said I couldn't be a relationship and he took it surprisingly well. We went to another cafe and sat and talked (with several awkward silences) for 15 minutes. Then I excused myself.
Anyway, CAM tried to excuse his behavior by saying he was following my lead.
??????????
During our first conversation, after he talked about all his "feelings," I mentioned that I only intend to have serious relationships. Apparently instead of hearing the "take it slow" and "friends first" parts of my statement, he heard "serious relationship with you." I choose to blame both misinterpretation and the language berrier.
Things should be alright now. Although (hopefully just to make conversation) he asked when I start work tomorrow. If he does show up, I will fall to the cafe floor and have a huge hissy fitt that will drive all men away forever. Let us hope it won't come to that.
In other news, I got to make my first staff recommendation pick yesterday. I decided to go classic. Pride and Prejudice. The only problem is that I then had to write a two line blurb about why people should read the book. How can you sum up the joy that is P&P in just two lines? The girl I was working with, Kim, who I've helped convert to P&P (she's currently reading it and she's has borrowed by DVDs of the BBC version), helped me develop possible statements.
We decided on: "Overcome first impressions and misconceptions and become bewitched by reading this classic romantic comedy."
Like it or not, it took us an hour to decide on that sentence.
*Cough* SECRET SANTA PAY ATTENTION *Cough*
B&N has gone goofy over the past couple of days. Today's addition to the craziness was a DVD of a fire burning in a fire place. It ran on the break room TV all day. At first I thought it was rediculous. Then it totally grew on me. I miss fires. I love the crackling. I wants my own DVD of a fire that I can watch all day. It will be perfect for reading. But I'd feel like an idiot to buy that for myself.
*Cough* YOU HEAR ME OUT THERE IN SECRET SANTA LAND? *Cough*
Met Central American Man outside after my shift. I said I couldn't be a relationship and he took it surprisingly well. We went to another cafe and sat and talked (with several awkward silences) for 15 minutes. Then I excused myself.
Anyway, CAM tried to excuse his behavior by saying he was following my lead.
??????????
During our first conversation, after he talked about all his "feelings," I mentioned that I only intend to have serious relationships. Apparently instead of hearing the "take it slow" and "friends first" parts of my statement, he heard "serious relationship with you." I choose to blame both misinterpretation and the language berrier.
Things should be alright now. Although (hopefully just to make conversation) he asked when I start work tomorrow. If he does show up, I will fall to the cafe floor and have a huge hissy fitt that will drive all men away forever. Let us hope it won't come to that.
In other news, I got to make my first staff recommendation pick yesterday. I decided to go classic. Pride and Prejudice. The only problem is that I then had to write a two line blurb about why people should read the book. How can you sum up the joy that is P&P in just two lines? The girl I was working with, Kim, who I've helped convert to P&P (she's currently reading it and she's has borrowed by DVDs of the BBC version), helped me develop possible statements.
We decided on: "Overcome first impressions and misconceptions and become bewitched by reading this classic romantic comedy."
Like it or not, it took us an hour to decide on that sentence.
*Cough* SECRET SANTA PAY ATTENTION *Cough*B&N has gone goofy over the past couple of days. Today's addition to the craziness was a DVD of a fire burning in a fire place. It ran on the break room TV all day. At first I thought it was rediculous. Then it totally grew on me. I miss fires. I love the crackling. I wants my own DVD of a fire that I can watch all day. It will be perfect for reading. But I'd feel like an idiot to buy that for myself.
*Cough* YOU HEAR ME OUT THERE IN SECRET SANTA LAND? *Cough*
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