I am trying to work out who it is in Gr8080's office that actually has the crush? It could be either of them.
i used the phrase "mutual flirtation" in my first post!
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 15 September 2012 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry didn't catch that. I have almost no experience of crushes that are not totally one-sided.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 15 September 2012 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
WCC, it's really cool to read someone going through something fraught and electric in such a thoughtful way, thanks.
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
I can't remember if the "Croydon is on the Hellmouth" discussion happened on this thread or the OKC thread, but in more exciting Croydon-related news, this morning we discovered that the telephone exchange for our office (which means probably this entire end of Croydon) is 666-. So this is very definitely on a Hellgate.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 17 September 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
My inappropriate attachment at my first work experience job in 1995 lived in Tetbury, which shared Malmesbury's phone code of 0666 (now 01666).
Yes I looked up his emergency contact number from the list on the wall and remembered the area code (which I have never once had to ring) for 17.5 years, what of it? I don't think I memorised the rest of the number though, in case anyone is scoring my creepiness out of 10. The phone number was probably 10 digits so I guess four digits = 4/10.
― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 17 September 2012 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
See, creepiness used to be such hard work, actually memorising phone numbers and all that. Now it's just entirely too easy to crepe on Facebook or whatever.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 17 September 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
(Not that I have a Facebook to crepe with.)
What I do not understand is: why is it, no matter what time I get to work, does he always appear to catch the lift with me?
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 17 September 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
she just came in my office and asked if she could ask me "an English question."
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 17 September 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
"i dont know, can you?"
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yesterday was full of all ARGH ooh ARGH moments.
Each day at work has become both delicious and fraught and beautiful and funny and painful and horrifying. And I find myself actually wanting to go to work in the morning, not to do my job, but to wait for those moments of delicious interaction. And this is STUPID, jobs are annoying places where you hate your life and waste your time trying to ignore it all, not where you spend your time flirting over standard deviations and helvetica neue. I keep waiting for the crash, and every crash is horrible, but every high is even nicer. And I can kid myself that he knows and goes along with it, when in truth he's probably ~oblivious~ and would be horrified at the time I spend fantasising that he could be the Harold to my Maude.
I know I am playing with fire, even my *Mum* has noticed that something is up with me ("you spent last weekend cursing his name and saying he was the worst thing to ever happen to your job, this week he's amazing, do you *have* to live your life as a character from Pride and Prejudice?") and tells me how dangerous this is, that I could lose a job I actually quite like over this. But what about the idea that his presence makes the job more enjoyable? Do these things always have to turn out badly? ("he is 24, yes, this will turn out badly, all men are bastards and they are even worse at that age" says my Mum, the cynic, to me.) No, they turn out badly because I'm me, and I overthink things instead of just enjoying them.
I think it will be good for me to get away from the office for a week next week, but the problem is now, I'm looking forward to getting away less than I was. This is absurd.
I will shut up now and go away.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
No, today is just one of those days when I feel like a fool. An old fool.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
I call those weekdays.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
right. i have this problem, she's a recovering mormon, gayy, politically leftwing ferocious, a blood indian from south of lethbridge along the belly river. i like her and she'd say things about how no white dudes ever liked her before, and finally it's a weirdo like me. and it all started when i began flirting with her guiltfree because she had a girlfriend and dug it and it became like a sandbox for flirting gambits for me. then she told me about cheating on her girlfriend and there was a queer crackle in our fakeflirts and one night, we both worked late on canada day and she went to the roof of the building to watch the fireworks and i snuck up to and watched her watching them and when she came back down, i said to her, i knew that was my moment, i should have come over and put my arm around you and MADE MY MOVE, and she said, why didn't you, you pussy? i drove her home that night, and i drove her home the next night and i was going to vancouver for a week and she leaned across to hug me and then i ended up kissing her for a while and it was awesome. but i came back and she'd been transferred to another office and i responded to the situation by cutting off all contact with her.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
he is 24, yes, this will turn out badly, all men are bastards and they are even worse at that age
as a 24-year-old I gotta say this is OTM. we leave trails of tears and ruined lives.
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
I knew better than to date 24 y.o. boys even when I was 24.
Just before leaving time today big boss owner called a special meeting with EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE EXCEPT ME and so now I am feeling really paranoid and butthurt.
I had a bit of a "wah no one appreciates me" earlier today and OfficeBoy did email me saying I was great but I think he was only buttering me up to get his hands on my data. Boo hoo.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
dylannn u making me tear up
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god I touched him today. I forgot about that. Only his shoulder, nothing ~inappropriate~ but still it makes me feel dirty thinking about it.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
to get his hands on my data
amirite?
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
dylannn bringing the raymond carver vibes.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
our office is really close to the front desk office so we pass by them all the time and know some of the managers there. just now one of them handed me a cup of frozen yogurt topped with cherry slush (i think it came from an employee appreciation day thing they're having today).
i don't eat dairy but i took it anyway and seconds later was in crush's office dropping it on her desk and saying "i brought a present for you." and omg the look on her face its like i told her i was giving her a million dollars
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
but then it turned in to a conversation about how i don't eat dairy, general eating habits/diet, and Chinese cuisine, culminating in her enthusiastically stating her love of eating dog meat :-(
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
did you then tell her you knew that was your chance to MAKE YOUR MOVE?
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Never try to talk about food with your crushee. Mine declares his love of protein shakes and bacon sarnies (despite the fact I've repeatedly told him I'm vegetarian.) I did ask him if he'd eaten anything odd like dog, as he recently lived in China, but he said he didn't ask what he was eating most of the time.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
opposite problem: you and your crush love all the same foods but she is spoken for, yet insists on buying you said foods which you eat crying at your desk from loneliness*
*slight exaggeration
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
, culminating in her enthusiastically stating her love of eating dog meat :-(
God, how horrible.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
"blood indian"?
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
crip indian
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
no joke iirc there were two big gangs in east berkeley, PANJABI BOYZ and the ALL INDIAN MOB
but they were sikhs
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
and neither crip nor blood
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=449
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainai_Nation
they have the best trad indian names, ex. Kaistosinikyi Kill-For-Nothing
― dylannn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
she has an equally cool name but it's unique enough that i won't mention it here. and this amazing nose. she wears her hair all combed up in a big ridge, half rockabilly half grand ole opry. i added one of her friends on facebook in the hopes that i could creep some pictures of her. she didn't accept my friend request.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_Woman
― dylannn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
culminating in her enthusiastically stating her love of eating dog meat :-(
graduate-level negging
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
oic, i thought you were talking blood quantum not actual tribe name
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
i was ready to yell at u for it lol
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god full-on sex dream last night. This has gone too far. I'm going to blushing furiously and unable to speak to him today.
(of course I won't, I'll be sending him funny links from ClientsFromHell and FlowingData like always, but ARGH)
I am still really really annoyed at big boss, though. Don't know whether to make usual joking comments or say flat out that was uncool but still feeling kinda put out.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
i've been thinking about her a lot recently and did stupid things like go to a bar that i know she goes to, a shitty gutterpunk sort of place in an old pawnshop where the signs for the defunct pawnshop are still bigger than the signs for the bar, and drank twins of budweiser/shot of jameson and didn't even see her because what are the chances that she's going to go there on the same tuesday evening that i decide to go there and i only ended up talking to a drunk that gave me a handful of loonies to put into the jukebox when i bought him a shot of jameson and then asked what fag chose this when gloria came on, which i played because i know it's sort of an important song to her and is her actual real name even though she goes by something completely different now but i remember her mentioning that it was a song about her when it came on her ipod one night at work, the night we ended up getting way too stoned at work for the first time and i saw her giggly for the first time. i don't know what's wrong with me, since i haven't been as timid and skulking behind the scenes with a girl for a long long time and this is like a throwback to my first year in university when a girl invited me to a movie (bill murray in japan) and i put my jacket between us and never talked to her again and just obsessed about her for a year until now i don't even remember her name. in a way, i find this sort of juvenile longing filtered through workplace social situation situation desirable after a recent history of cold hookups and emotionally tortured way too adult relationships.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
Congratulations, you are a nightmare.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
Josie and the Pussycats: Classic or Dud
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
still a lame-ass bitch 11 years later
peace
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
Trying to put a positive spin on it ^^^^^ he at least makes me feel a bit healthier about my terrible relationship choices. :-/
OfficeBoy was in very early today, and I ended up having a massive go at him over messing up the kitchen saying "I'm not your mother" and him going "aaaawwww, but why not" and then me giving him a feminist rant after he tried to make out that girls were just more ~OCD~ about tidying than boys which was just the RONG thing to say to *me* of all people and I sent him off with a flea in his ear about gender roles and the etymology of the word "slut."
Why god why.
I told him not to act like he was 12 in making a giant mess and not cleaning it up, but I seem incapable of not acting like *I* am 12 when I'm around him, and pulling his pigtails and punching him in the shoulder because I can't handle the fact that I ~liiiiiiiike~ him.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Inappropriate Professional Attachment,
it is far too cold this morning to wearing tops like that. I speak only in concern for your health and not because I forgot what I was doing for 5 minutes. *slaps self in face, drinks more coffee*
Yours,
Hype
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
aw i like dylann's story.
― estela, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:24 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
congratulations, you're being a dick on a crush thread
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
hey andy, sorry for calling you a bad name
http://www.desicomments.com/dcpics/dc-605.jpg
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
And do you know what OfficeBoy did after being sent away with a feminist flea in his ear?
He cleaned up his mess, he said "actually, thinking about it, you're probably right" and he sat his sweet ass back down. From dealing with men his age on the internetz, I was expecting a "LOL Feminazi" and pushback and all kinds of defensiveness and accusations. But he just said he hadn't thought about it that way, and conceded the argument. And then my vagina exploded with delight. Why is he so lovely? Like, not just physically lovely, but everything I thought was going to be iffy with him, has just turned out to be *fine* because he's been thoroughly decent about things.
Why can't he be 20 years older? (I won't say "why can't I be 20 years younger" because you could not pay me enough money to be 21 again.)
I have gone from just wanting to bang him, to hating his guts to thinking he is Jesus within the space of about 3 weeks. I have got it BAAAAAAAAAD.
― The Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
you're making me feel like I need to be trying harder with my office crushes.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link