A semi-recovery week in the books. Or the database, however you want to look at it. Technically today is the beginning of a new week but since I was convinced yesterday was Saturday, I'll pretend today's 81 mile ride out to the Shenandoah wine country through Plymouth and Fiddletown was last week. Tagged along with a coworker since this route was his idea. It felt like spring today... completely blue skies and warming into the 60s or something such that I was able to remove my arm and knee warmers and still be comfortable. No epic climbs, just rollers and bumpy roads. I can also say I have only been in Amador County on a bike.
In other news, well even though Kelly keeps telling me to stop reading He's Just Not That Into You I think it may have a point in this case... the guy just isn't interested if he isn't calling me, right? I should have figured that out last week, ugh. And also realized that the Olympics is the only thing on television that will keep me sitting in front of the tv.
2 comments:
ok, my issue with dumb ass date-advice books is they act as though 1. women are dumb and 2. there are some crazy set of rules everyone knows.
if a PERSON never returns your calls, then yeah they probably don't lik eyou that much. i mean if your friend always had a previous engagement, you'd be like uh guess they're not my friend. IT"S NOT LIKE THERE ARE DIFFERENT RULES FOR INTERACTING WITH BOYS.
further, by creating a book/set of rules, where it's like oh if he doesn't call then it's over, it creates these stringent parameters where common sense would work. i mean give a person the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were busy and did have shit to do. don't be crazy, but treat them like you would treat any person.
that is all.
Funny coincidences. My name is also Amy, and if that's really your full name in your blogspot url, I've just got a different middle initial...
But I also recently read He's Just Not That Into You after picking it up for 25¢ at the Yolo SPCA thrift shop, and sure, some dating other advice books might seem like they're treating women as if they're dumb, but HJNTIY felt empowering and uplifting to me. It stresses to the reader that she really is smart, attractive, successful -- in short, desirable, and she's just making excuses for this guy.
It's one thing to give someone the benefit of the doubt and another to make excuses, or in my case, to go nuts and obsess over why doesn't this guy like me, I mean, there's a whole herd of other guys chasing me, why does the one I actually want not put in the effort?
Sure, I had friends trying to do the support work too, but sometimes, you just want a book to spell it out for you on paper.
:)
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