Says all you need to know about me
Feb. 14th, 2012 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistLast week a friend texted me to ask if I was free to meet up this week.
Sure, I said.
"When are you free?" she asked. "I'm busy Monday but will be around the rest of the week. I know you have plans on Tuesday."
And there was a smiley face at the end of that. It haunted me. What did that smiley face know that I did not? I wracked my brains, trying to think of what I had to do on Tuesday and why someone I don't see that often would know better than I would. The first and third Tuesdays of the month I often do bi stuff, but we'd just had the first Tuesday so I knew it couldn't be that.
I couldnt't think of anything else. And that smiley face wasn't talking.
I even told another friend, who could only offer the suggestion "you'd better not make any plans for Tuesday then and see what happens!" (This makes me feel a bit better; I am not the only one to miss a conclusion that now seems inescapable.)
It's only today, when I woke up to that shiny red heart that I figured it out.
"Oh it's only Valentine's DayH! I don't have plans I've forgotten about!" I all but shouted aloud in my kitchen with no small measure of relief.
Sure, I said.
"When are you free?" she asked. "I'm busy Monday but will be around the rest of the week. I know you have plans on Tuesday."
And there was a smiley face at the end of that. It haunted me. What did that smiley face know that I did not? I wracked my brains, trying to think of what I had to do on Tuesday and why someone I don't see that often would know better than I would. The first and third Tuesdays of the month I often do bi stuff, but we'd just had the first Tuesday so I knew it couldn't be that.
I couldnt't think of anything else. And that smiley face wasn't talking.
I even told another friend, who could only offer the suggestion "you'd better not make any plans for Tuesday then and see what happens!" (This makes me feel a bit better; I am not the only one to miss a conclusion that now seems inescapable.)
It's only today, when I woke up to that shiny red heart that I figured it out.
"Oh it's only Valentine's DayH! I don't have plans I've forgotten about!" I all but shouted aloud in my kitchen with no small measure of relief.
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Date: 2012-02-14 02:09 pm (UTC)A colleague who doesn't know me well asked at lunchtime what I'm doing this evening - and looked confused when I said happily: "I'm having an evening at home on my own".
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Date: 2012-02-14 07:00 pm (UTC)I really have no excuse, though. James got me a GORGEOUS vintage folio edition of MR James' Ghost Stories.
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Date: 2012-02-14 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-15 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-14 03:21 pm (UTC)"What?"
"Vateletines Day! Do you want to be all romanced up?"
I laughed. "I don't know. I hadn't thought about it." I certainly hadn't expected that we would. "A thing like what?"
"I don't know. I am all snotty," he replied.
About an hour later I said cautiously, "We could go to the cinema?" We talked about doing this over the weekend, but it didn't happen.
Turns out it won't today either, because Andrew's still ill with a sinus infection I probably gave him.
But he did give me a big hug and say "I'm glad you're not one of those mentalist women who care about Valentine's Day" when he realized what some of his friends are going through today. (A card that was signed "here's your fucking card" was threatened.)
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Date: 2012-02-14 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-14 08:01 pm (UTC)