Why Do You Do What You Do To Me, Cookie?

So yesterday she and I did end up hanging out after work. In fact, I left work in the passenger seat of her car, because we had somewhere to be, and we hung out until around 10:00. Mostly what we did was talk, and it was very enjoyable. But let me back up and hit some points.

*Leaving work. Yeah, so we left together in her car. This was seen by just about everyone, and as there's already been gossip about the two of us, now everyone thinks something is going on between us. That's ok with me, by the way. Let them think that. I enjoy it. She and I are having a lot of fun with the rumors. She's getting a little attitude from IB, who she knows from a previous job, and who obviously has a case of the Screaming Red Hots for her. Somehow, I'm not getting any of that attitude myself. However, SD, who I've worked with for five years now, was kinda icy today. I have a theory on that, which may or may not have any bearing on anything, but I know she has to be aware of the rumors, and I think she resents it. Furthermore, this is the first time that I'm sticking up for one of the new people when she goes on a tizzy, and I don't think she likes that either. Interesting times.

*Places to go. She had a lead on a job opportunity, and she asked me to go along with her. We both took applications. Hers was handed in, but I had to take mine with me to get some other info. The job is a fair distance from here, and I don't know if they'll be interested in either one of us, but what the heck? I'm burned out at the current job, and even though I've been an inspired team player of late, I'm long overdue in getting the hell out of there. Am I right? There's also some loose talk about becoming roomies, as we could both stand to upgrade our current living conditions. That would put me back into a Shannon type situation, which I really enjoyed, but ultimately didn't end well. That's true, but Jen isn't exactly Shannon, either, and as far as the roomies idea goes, that's a good thing. For instance, I don't think she'd sell anything of mine to finance a bag of pot. But this is a discussion for a later post.

*Talking. After our field trip we hung out and talked over a picnic table for several hours. We covered all kinds of things under the sun. Work issues were talked about. Some cards were put on the table. She knows I like her (she already did, by the way, and I knew she knew). There are some ghosts of her past that make things like this difficult for her, but I believe she did come as close as she's humanly possible to telling me that she does in fact like me, too. I'd been on a roller coaster lately, feeling this way and that, but this conversation helped me feel a lot better. I brought up some other things that were on my mind, and we talked about those. She told me her deepest, darkest secrets -- none of which I will ever discuss here or elsewhere. I told her some of mine, including the big one, which will almost certainly come up in a post here sooner or later. A big conversation resulted from that, which made me think about things a little differently. It was just a great conversation.

She and I have good chemistry. I think she could be a very important friend of mine.