Running out of excuses

I've always been somewhat accident prone (clumsy). I used to have a great excuse - anti-epileptic medications. As an extra bonus, if I banged a part of my body into something, it didn't hurt.

Of course, I can't bang numb parts of my body into things (that'd be too convienent). A few minutes ago, I was trying to reach for something outside the biosafety hood. Instead I misjudged and whacked the top of my hand on the glass front shield. Ah well, when it'll bruise it will match the bruise on my forehead from yesterday's surprise sneeze when working in front of the same glass shield.

Perhaps I should just take over the other biosaefty hood. That would mean having to clean it first *sigh*

The trouble with guy-friends

I never minded having guy friends. Most of the time, I'd rather spend time doing things with guy friends than girl friends anyway. However, most of my guy friends are like what Billy Crystal said in "When Harry Met Sally":

Men and women cannot be friends because the guy will always want to sleep with her. (or something like that)

My latest guy friends fell into that category. One I only considered a friend because while we had fun going to football games and the opera, I knew that fundamentally we were in two different worlds (hint: religion). That still didn't stop him from trying. When I politely diverted such attentions, he outright kissed me. We really haven't spoken since, but he does have a girlfriend now and seems to be happy.

The other I've known on and off for a while. We enjoy good vodka and a good smart assed commentary to a movie. He's already been married, and I truly had hoped it would work out. Now that he's single, he has expressed interest. I considered it for a while - I knew he was a good and caring person, and would make me happy. The biggest difference between us was literally night and day (me being the AM person, him being the night owl). I had pretty much decided by the summer that it wouldn't work out with us, and lost contact with him around June.

Then he sent me an email this AM saying he wanted to restart a friendship. That he cherished our friendship and doesn't want to lose that. I sent a reply saying that I would like to be friends, and perhaps we can get together this weekend and do something (which I'm sure our relationship will be discussed). I've never had to tell a guy that I only want to be friends, but I guess I'll find someway to do it. I don't know how I'll break it to him that I'm seeing someone else now (at least I didn't mention THAT in my reply), I don't want to hurt his feelings. Here's hoping that we really can be friends.