February 01, 2006 - 5:51 PM

License Plates and Instant Messages

I've seen some cool license plates around. Today, there was one that read "DWNTRDR", or Dawn Treader, as in The Voyage Of. The person also had stickers of someone praying before a cross and that funky deformed dove of peace, so I'm guessing this person approached C.S. Lewis from the Christian Allegory side. But still, what a kick to see that on a license plate.

What else have I seen...there was the one that said "OMG WTF" which, if you are any type of nerd, you would know translates to Oh My God, What the Fuck. A VW Bug had MXCNMDE on it, which at first I was trying to convert from Roman Numerals, before I realized it meant Mexican Made. There was a kindred spirit with a license plate stating "L8 AGAIN".

Oh, and I liked the bumper sticker that said, and I quote, "Using Your Turn Signal Does Not Constitute Giving Away Secrets to the Enemy!" Amen, too-long-sticker-that-can-only-be-read-at-a-stoplight, amen.
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Oh, know what else? When I was in Massachusetts in December, I drove down to Providence to see fabulous Pam one night, and we had drinks and sang karaoke (which she documented on her website). The thing is, as I was driving through Rhode Island, I noticed that many of the cars had only 5 alphanumerics on their license plates, and a good number had 4. None of the plates were those special government ones, either. Regular old, everyday Rhode Islandian plates, they were. What, are there only 30,000 people in the state, Pam?

By the way, Pam can really realllly sing. And she's coming out here to visit L.A. in a month. Hooray for socks (monkeys)!
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So, everyone who I've talked to or who has emailed me (thanks, by the way) has echoed similar sentiments: J is a doodoo-head for not telling me earlier that she was seeing someone, and if she was gonna lead me on like that for a month, then she's not someone I want to date. As you can imagine, I have conflicting thoughts on this. Those have to be worked out. But I have more pressing matters on which I need your advice.

Do I contact her? Do I explain why I haven't contacted her? Do I tell her to leave me alone for the time being so that I can let my feelings abate? Or do I just stay the hell away from initiating any sort of contact? Because, dude, she IM'ed me today (I have to leave IM on at work now so that the other people in the office can ask me questions [yes, they are too lazy to walk the 15 steps down the hall to talk to me]) to tell me how much her computer sucks, and I replied a couple times in our usual bantery way before I had to leave for a run, and a few hopeful feelings burbled to the surface which I had to fight down. Snarf.

The rational side of me and the protective side (and let's be honest, the vindictive side too) agree that I should be removed and nice, but should rebuff any chummy chumminess. But the god-I-want-a-girlfriend side is all "gosh, i wish she'd come to her senses, dump that other guy, and date meeeee". Just like a Frosted Mini-wheats commercial. We're all agreed that I should do my best to move on, and that if a situation arises with J, I should decline any entanglements with her, right? RIGHT?

Rassum frassum.

Now Listening To : The Story - The Angel in the House
Random Thought : I sang Daydream Believer and Beyond the Sea, for those interested in my karaoke exploits.

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