Strange Things Are Afoot at the Circle K

So last night I was signed in to Yahoo Messenger. As the only person on my “buddy list” is my friend Chris and he was in California, I didn’t think anything of it … Imagine my surprise when Ryan sent me an IM, after 2+ weeks of silence. (Ryan is formerly known as MJCF … I grew tired of all of the nicknames.)

The tone was friendly yet not too familiar … he told me about how awful the past two weeks had been, although he didn’t mention anything about me. His car broke down, he’s been sick, work sucks, etc. etc. etc. I sent him a photo of me dressed up for Halloween and he commented on how cute I looked. Eventually he said he wanted me to know that he wasn’t trying to “start” anything by IM’ing me. I told him if he was, he was going to have to try a lot harder than what he was doing. He said, “You mean you’d actually give me a shot? … Just kidding!” Yeah, right, my ass he was kidding. I said, “You know I like you … I just got tired of everything.” He replied, “I know. I realize that. You were right.” That’s about as deep as he gets. Maybe his tiredness/illness made him contrite, I don’t know.

I left work tonight and had a message on my cell. To my surprise, it was Mark, apologizing for not being able to talk long yesterday and asking me to call him. I did but he didn’t answer, which was fine. From what he said in his message, it sounds like he’s had a fever, which means it’s more than a cold … so stay away! lol At any rate, Jesse hasn’t returned my call from yesterday so f–k him. If he does call, I’m not answering. What a jackass … so much potential gone to hell. Funny how the red flags — i.e. all of his friends are from his fraternity and he’s 27 — bear out.