Yesterday I ate lunch at one of those McDonald’s that offers a self-service drink fountain. I was in a Mr. Pibb kind of mood, so I reached over and went for it. As I was filling up, I read the slogan on the little graphic icon: “Put it in your head.” Now I ask you,…
Hooray for school. Oh wait, that wasn’t sarcastic enough? Let me try again…
Oh, the drama: mixed signals, varying shades of advice from every corner and from every angle, lingering doubts, and lingering suspicions. Sometimes, man… At some point, something’s gotta give. It’s just like Carlos always says, “Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes that fucking bear…he gets you.” What’s the score at now, anyway? I think…
I feel at peace tonight. We’re just friends, and that’s okay. Although there will always be an irrational part of me that holds onto the hope that she’ll one day be mine, I think I’m finally learning to let go. We could have been something, I still believe that; but I’ve realized that she really…
Lately it seems that the more we talk the more it hurts. She’s onto me, too. She senses it in every lull and every introspective silence. So be it. Yesterday afternoon, while we were speaking on the phone, she suggested that she should hang up because she made me too sad. I asked her to…