Ms. Complacent

last week, i came in to work and it was raining from the ceiling above my computer. two floors up on the 18th floor, the plumbed-in coffee machine had burst a pipe, and it leaked all the way down to the fourth floor. needless to say, there was some water damage to our little corner of the office.

a good part of the week, i was working with two industrial-sized fans blowing my papers around. i had to clean off my desk so the drywaller guys could get access to the window and the ceiling. i had to deal with walls banging and de-humidifying. okay, it wasn't just me that had to deal with it, but apparently i dealt with it in the most pleasing way because one of the partners handed me an envelope today and said, "here ya go."

i opened it up and there was a thank you card that basically said thank you for putting up with all of the disturbance, and they enclosed a $50 gift certificate to the Milestones chain of restaurants. nice! i didn't want to bring it up to Mon, mostly because i don't think she'll get one for her troubles (and her office sustained the most damage, including that to her law degree). however, she was the most vocal about how displeased she was, so i think i will keep my bounty to myself.

on the JW front, we had a long conversation on the phone yesterday. what i find unusual about him is that he wants to know how to handle me - most guys could care less. he wanted to know what he could expect from me (behaviour-wise) as we got to know each other, what he should do to make things easier to get to know me, etc. it was weird just being able to say, "okay, so i'm an introvert. you need to be patient enough with me to let me get accustomed to you at my own pace, but forward enough to just drag me out and say, 'enough sitting around, let's go out and do something.'" i told him that he was doing well as far as getting to know me was concerned, because i was still talking to him and he hadn't done anything to annoy me once. he thought that was pretty funny.

oddly, he never mentioned the whole HPV thing. i suppose he assumes i'll see it on his profile, or perhaps he'll mention it when we've decided to actually start spending time together. right now, we're basically just getting to know each other through emails and phone calls but nothing has been established yet as far as whether we'll actually try to be friends or more. we have to meet in person first.

and again, i don't know if i can do more just because of his medical situation. he alluded a lot to "creative sex" yesterday, but never really said why. i didn't ask because it's an icky conversation to have ("so, did you cheat on your girlfriend or did your girlfriend cheat on you?"). i definitely think we could be friends though. he's different enough from me that he'll draw me out, but not so different that i wouldn't want to spend any time with him.

it helps that he's hot, too.