Ever notice how…

when you don’t be stuttin folk, they appear to pay way more attention to you? Or people who you haven’t talked to in a while, on random days, get in touch with you. That has been happening to me a lot lately. I know some of ya’ll readin are thinking, “surely she means me” (buffi, my brother told me u IMed the other day and he signed off, I didn’t know my AIM was on, so I wasn’t ignoring you. lol) Irv, we talk every once in a while, when I am on IM, and I’m never really on for a long period of time, you made your point. Sean, all of a sudden is talking to me a LOT more. We don’t really talk on the phone as much, but whenever I’m signed in to email, I get a message, to chat. There are a couple of other people that I’ve talked to that I haven’t in a while, but I digress.

I’m beginning to get a little nervous now, I went on the second interview for the railroad gig last week and I haven’t heard back from them yet. The typing test and the interview went very well I think. I typed 59 wpm on the test, which is far beyond the average needed, I answered all questions comfortably and to the best of my ability. The head of human resources seemed impressed and sent me from Joliet to Gary for a third interview with the head of the clerical department at the station. They both were talking to me as if the job were already mine, and the head of HR actually gave me a list of places where I could find work boots. The head of clerical said that the head of HR would give me a call in about a week or two if I’m hired because they are interviewing for the other two spots. They said if I don’t hear anything in a week or two, it’s because I won’t be extended employment at this time. At first I was fairly confident that I got it, I mean all signs point to YES…right? It’s been a week. If I don’t hear anything next week, it’s back to the drawing board. (and I was soooo hoping that Movie Gallery would only have me as a customer and not an employee.)

Where shall I begin? Almost as quickly as I parted ways with someone, someone came into my life. but the funny thing is, when I first met him, he soooooo rubbed me the wrong way. I met him back in December when I was still attached and he came into my job just to harass me. I did the black girl thing and rolled my eyes and clucked my tongue, but well that didn’t phase him. I was mostly turned off by the fact that he is seven years older (although age isn’t really that big of a factor to me as long as he isn’t like eleven years, that’s a bit much) but dudes that are that much older tend to have what I call “the daddy syndrome”. He was handsome to me, but I mean, looks aren’t everything, especially with that mouth of his. One day he came into my job and cracked a joke that REALLY made me laugh. We kind of exchanged a look. After that, I didn’t see him in the store for a while. Fast forward to January, I am now single, he comes into the store to rent. All this time he made it a point to ask for my number, regardless of whether or not I had a man. This time he didn’t ask. So I say “hmm, surprised you haven’t asked for my number today,” and he says, “well I figured if one day I stopped asking, you’d give it to me.” He said it seriously, no laughter no cracking of jokes. That turned things around a little, so I gave him my number thinking, well if he doesn’t get on my nerves too much longer, we could be cool, go out for a few meals even, to break the monotony of my life….

to be continued…