Friday, October 12, 2007

Maybe I should take my own advice?

I'm getting the sense from some of my friends that I am being too picky. I am debating this premise. Text boy texted me last night, at 10:45 just as I was drifting off to sleep, about something on TV. Text boy has been told a) I really, really despise texting. It is overly arduous for very little return. AND b) I go to bed at 10:00 or 10:30, and I only answer the phone after 10:30 if I value you more than sleep. Which is not a status people earn after a date or two. YET, even after having broken up with me because I was so demanding as to need 8 hours to work and 8 hours to sleep every day, he's STILL infiltrating sleep hours, only now without any hope or promise of any benefit for me here.

I am also having a bit of a grump about someone I went out with last weekend never calling me back. And by "bit of a grump," I might actually mean existential crisis.

I just think that somewhere between never calling, and getting text messages at work and late at night, there is a happy middle ground. A sane realm where people converse with one another during reasonable evening and weekend hours. Text boy dumped me not really because I didn't write, it was because I didn't respond to his 2:30 PM e-mails immediately. (Though I did write him back in the e-mail that night.)

Lately I have had a spate of people interested in me who think they are more important that normal sleep and work hours. One guy who I would have otherwise been very interested in because he was so gosh-darned cute actually e-mailed my BOSS to get my contact info. A cute butt can overcome many sins, as Pance says, but not getting me fired.

All I am asking for here is a little social intelligence. Am I crazy? Because I'm starting to wonder if maybe my standards need revision or something.

5 comments:

Mel said...

He e-mailed your boss? Cute or not I would have told him to not let the door hit him where the good Lord split him.

judgecraig said...

He must have been quite eager to connect with you. Or maybe he thought your boss might be hot too?
I don't know about the 10:45 pm text though...I typically send a text if I think it is an awkward time to call. So the person can call/text back when it is convenient.

Christine said...

He sounds...wrong.

Haven't seen you around my way lately; hope you aren't getting your kid fix elsewhere ;).

Jen said...

calling/texting etiquette should be a main topic of dating 101, but then I yet have to met the guy who has taken this course!

Dicia said...

E-mailed your boss?! Oh wow! that is an automatic negative pointer right there! that's a "I'm waving good bye now!" You have lots on your plate!