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Week o' Thursdays....
Well, not a full week, but just four days in a row being crazy - with Saturday being the craziest.
A friend that I used to work with had a crazier few weeks - she worked at a bank (for more money than I care to think about) but because of the economy it was unlikely that she would be promoted anytime soon.
So she decided to leave work, break up with her girlfriend, move to The Other Coast, go back to school for social sciences and social services, and, if she can do it, get a job in social services for less than half of what she is currently making at the bank. The break up with her girlfriend was a direct result of both the move across country (she doesn't want to go) and going back to school to qualify for a job that pays less (she thinks that Molly (Donahue, not to be confused with the Mighty Molly Gallagher) is nuts).
So, I was going to help Molly pack the van on Saturday, when my girlfriend shows up, unannounced, on Saturday morning. She felt the need for some comfort and sympathy, having found her first gray hair on Friday. (I made my Wisdom check, and did not tell her that she has a few behind her ears that have been there for about a year. Though she may have wondered why I had taken to play with the hair behind her ears at about the same time... I think they're cute. ) She turned forty in February.
So, I Shanghaied her into helping Molly move, introduced them, and hoped (forlornly and facetiously) that they would not gossip about me behind my back.
Back when I worked with Molly I used to joke that she wouldn't go out with me, so she must be a lesbian. A joke that only makes sense if you know that Molly is a lesbian, and is not in any closet - unless you count driving a car with numerous stickers advertising that fact as a closet, and that we had gone out, or at least went to folk concerts and dubious movies together. (When test screening bad movies for a Hallowe'en party, Molly was my fellow judge. )
Any hope that they wouldn't gossip was not only forlorn, but purely verbal - Jackie needed something to cheer her up, and comfort given by me, someone who's hair will certainly be completely white inside of five years, may not be the most palatable. If gossiping helped, then so be it.
Saturday is also a game night, and this was the part that actually worried me. A few months back one of the girls at the game propositioned me. Jackie has met her, but hasn't seen her for years before the, umm, overnight invitation. If I had known that Jackie was coming over I would have canceled the game. (Given how seldom I get to see my girl, in any conflict where I have enough warning, Jackie wins.)
This... went less smoothly. Jackie doesn't game, was feeling vulnerable, and things were touchy. Fortunately there were no fireworks - the younger girl didn't push, Jackie did not confront her, and I did not go fleeing, screaming, into the outer dark. But there was tension.
I kind of wish that she had stayed at my apartment instead, but as I mentioned, she was feeling vulnerable - something that I have only seen once or twice in the twenty years that I have known her. Is a grey hair all that important? I have a full head of them, and it did not bother me at all when I found some on Jackie's head before this. Or is it just being forty? My own fortieth was years ago, and I like being old. (It is a lot better than being dead.)
Hopefully I am at peace with all parties concerned, but I may have sped up my white hair agenda by about three months....
The Auld Grump, gods, I hate soap operas....
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
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