Thursday, 14 May 2009

Older and Wiser?

It's been a while since I posted anything, so I shall write down some bullet points about what my life has been like:

- I had a birthday last Friday the 8th! I turned 22 and it was really good fun. Had fancy cocktails in Om till I couldn't stand up straight, and carried on the drunken mayhem till I reached a slightly psychotic state.

- I have not heard back from the DJ at all! He did not even say happy birthday to me, which in these times when mobiles and facebook are so accessible, is not good manners.

- I experienced a stalker in the campus library the other day. Literally! I was working on a computer trying to write my dissertation and this guy came and sat down next to me. Did not think much about it. Then I went out for a cigarette only to come back to a little note left by my computer. It said something like 'Hi, I think you're gorgeous.... Blah blah blah .... I'm having a birthday part of the 24th....this is my e-mail, add me on facebook' etc. Now, it's one thing to leave a note and then disappear, but no, this guy was still sitting next to me. It was so weird! Had it been someone attractive or likable this would have been a cute gesture, needless to say this was not the case. After 10 minutes I wrapped up my stuff and left.

- So a detail about the note from the stalker; I didn't know it was the guy sitting next to me who had written the note. I thought that maybe it was the cute guy sitting in the row in front of me. Stupidly, I typed in the e-mail he had written down into facebook, only to realise too soon that it indeed was the creepy guy next to me. Now since he was sitting less than a foot away from me he could clearly see my screen. I didn't want to be rude and look him up on facebook only to dismiss him, so the social pressures of the situation made me add him! So I'm now facebook friends with my creepy stalker from the library.

- Luckily I'm handing my dissertation in on Monday and will be able to remove creepy stalker from my friends and never have to deal with it again.

- A friend of mine ran into a old work colleague, who is straight apparently, and had public sex in a private garden in Kemp Town. I felt like I should share that with the world in case anyone knows the person living in the big villa type house just at the bend before you get to the village high street. The one at the end of those pretty colourful houses

- What's the general consensus on dating older people? How old is too old? I'm considering going on a date with a guy in his mid thirties, but he doesn't look like he is. In a way age is just a socially constructed concept and should have nothing to do with the way we conceptualise other people. But on the other hand he was 14 when I was born which means that he's probably been dating and having sex for the entire 22 years I've been alive.

1 comments:

Kerrie said...

O.K. The fact that you added the creepy stalker to Facebook made me laugh my head of. I do things like that all the time then spend ages trying to undo the things I have got myself into. As for dating older people. If you like them go for it. Age really is irrelevant.