updates

i'm going to Greece! it sounds so bizarre saying that. it's not really a place that people go everyday. it's not like saying, "i'm going to California" or "i'm going to New York". i guess that's why people say it. my boss went to Hong Kong a couple of months ago and he couldn't stop saying it. i think most people refer to their vacation as "vacation" and not usually by the destination. maybe i'm wrong. but for a couple of weeks prior to his vacation, he kept saying, "well, when i'm in Hong Kong..." or "that'll have to wait until i'm back from Hong Kong." that being said, it's 20 days until i leave for Greece!!!

oh, it's a 9-day Greek island cruise, basically. the first three days are spent in Athens and then we cruise to 5 islands with one stop in Turkey (not Istanbul, unfortunately, but i will get to see the ancient city of Ephesus!). and i'm going with my mom. not my ideal travel partner but then again, she's funding the trip so who am i to complain?

as for the love-life, you can see it two ways: non-existent or on the brink of exploding. i had a date with a guy i met online on thursday. he spent the first 20 minutes talking about how much money he had. i determined in the first 10 minutes i didn't want to see him again. ugh. then there's another guy i met online that i thought would turn into something but he doesn't seem to think that getting together is of great importance. we went out once and it was really nice and that's why i thought for sure i'd see him again soon. not so. we've talked on MSN a couple of times since and on the phone and he's asked me to go out a number of times but he never makes a firm plan. weird.

then, there are the boys at work. we won't talk about the Office Crush as we already know that it's a hopeless case. but i keep trying :) no, there is a bike courier at work that is apparently going to ask me out. he's been talking to my receptionist about me and she's been keeping me abreast of the goings on. i don't see him much, only when i relieve at reception. he's really nice. he's the one that used the "Miss Tahiti 1999" on me. i understand from my receptionist that he's afraid i'll turn him down or it won't work out and we'll stop using his company for courier work. methinks he's had some rejection in the past! i was at reception on friday when he came in. unfortunately, when he came in, one of the lawyers was up front reading the paper at the counter so i only managed to smile and say hi to him. oddly enough, my Office Crush walked up behind him and to me and asked me for help. i managed to smile and wave goodbye to the courier while i was also trying to give my Office Crush my full attention. hard to do.

and of course, i began thinking about what that meant. had i been alone in reception, he probably would've asked me out then (maybe). he likely would've chatted me up more, in any event. yet circumstances were such that i wasn't alone and moreover, i was with my OC. did it happen this way because i'm not supposed to go out with him? or did it happen this way so i could see, at the same time, that the way my OC looks at me is nothing compared to the way the courier looks at me? the courier has this sort of dreamy, smitten look when he says hi to me. my OC doesn't really get that look. although, sometimes when we're just chatting about nothing related to work, he does have this sort of smouldering, bedroomy look in his beautiful blues. he is Greek, after all.

update - i have a date tomorrow night with the wayward online guy. we'll see how it goes. well, i know it will go well; it's just that i don't understand why he doesn't call me. i was determined not to give him the time of day if he had the nerve to phone again but in his message, he didn't sound like he felt he had done anything wrong. don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. in any event, the plan is made. i will keep you posted.