So Mark called me tonight. He could not have sounded less thrilled to talk with me and, mind you, he called me. He was stressed b/c he starts his new job tomorrow and has to see a patient. I tried to be empathetic, but he kept changing the subject away from that — yet would go back to it once I started talking.

This has been a major annoyance for me. I can say something like, “I’m glad to be back home” after spending five days with my parents. Instead of saying, “Oh yeah, I know what you mean,” he said, “I’m glad to be moving out this weekend. That’s where my mind is.” The more he uses that conversational ploy, the less I want to talk with him.

Then this weekend entered the conversation and I asked him if he still was coming over Saturday, as he’s the one who wanted to do something. He said, “Um. I guess. What’s Saturday?” When I said, “New Year’s Eve,” he said, “oh.” I said, “Do you still want to do something or should I make other plans, because it’s already Wednesday?” “Um. No. I should be able to do something.” Oh hell no. Five weeks of dating is not nearly soon enough to leave me hanging.

Anyway we ended getting off the phone. I was checking my e-mail and decided to check match.com to see what his status was — and he was online right then! I sat and stewed and decided that wasn’t the right thing for me to do. So about 20 minutes later I called him back - and HE DIDN’T ANSWER! I left him a message saying the conversation didn’t sit well with me, that I felt like I was keeping him from what he wanted/needed to do (ie reading), that I wasn’t sure why he called and it just seemed strange.

He did call me back about 10 minutes later, and he apologized quite a bit. (He did say he has a lot going on right now, with work and his “life,” whatever the hell that means.) We talked for about 20 minutes. The conversation went a lot better than the first one.

I still don’t know what’s going on.

∗ Posted by Monique on 12.28.2005
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