I say Hussein, you say Shady

What is considered shady? Specifically shady behavior? I believe this is a term that is 95% of time applied to guys trying to take advantage of girls but I suppose it happens rarely the other way around. As Jon and I were smoking out of a hookah(not hooker) over the weekend we conjured up a time old and revisited conversation about shadiness.

For instance, take Jon, as the objection of my current discussion, as a case study of what is and what is not shady behavior. Is Jon a shady guy when it comes to girls? Talk to the uninformed masses, and I believe you might get the impression that Jon is an outstanding guy with an impeccable reputation. Or, talk to a few people "in the know," and you might hear that he's the second coming of the dark devil himself.

Of course this may all be tongue in cheek and hearsay, but suppose for a second that what I'm intimidating is all true. Now isn't this the paramount of shadiness? That outward layer of innocence and good feeling surrounding a dark deep inner evil? Jon's opinion regarding himself, is that he's not shady, and that there is nothing reprehensible about his actions. In other words, left alone, he wouldn't alter his behavior at all. No reason to.

Sometimes when you don't know what's going on per se, you can still sense a vibe. Some guys, are just plain slim shady. The air around them reeks of it. Any self respecting girl knows to avoid these guys ever since their mothers began to warn them of the evil sub-human race of creatures known as "man".

However, what about the "wolf in sheep's clothing" guy, which I tried to tell Jon he might be, to which he responded, "I ain't no f------ sheep." This is the guy that lacks the outwardly shady vibe, wears slacks and collared shirts, shaves every morning and politely opens the door for old ladies. He's the church "elder" that offers to bring by bibles to a girl's dormitory at late hours of the night. Or that overachieving TA that can help out with a little sumthin' sumthin' and a private study session.

The truly shady in my book...they don't think they are shady. I mean, for whatever reasons which may very well be legitimate from a certain point of view, don't feel as if they are doing anything wrong. These people are the most dangerous, because you could strap them to the polygraph and they would slip under the radar. They aren't cleverly hiding their shady vibe...they just don't have one.

These are the sheep that don't really know that they are actually wolves. And its hunting season.

You know what you are? You're like a big bear with claws and with fangs...

...big fucking teeth, man.

Yeah... big fuckin' teeth on ya'. And she's just like this little bunny, whose just kinda cowering in the corner.

Shivering.

Yeah, man just kinda... you know, you got these claws and your staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself and with these claws your thinking "How am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?"

[ esca | 5:32 PM | ]

 

Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am

So yesterday I went out with a couple people from work to watch Freaky Friday, which incidentally was a pretty fun wholesome movie. The group included Julia K, who is my Software IPT Lead’s daughter, or in other words, big hauncho boss. So as I’m leaving my work, I happen to see my boss in the hallway and we start chatting. She happens to bring up her daughter so then I mention, oh yeah, I’m actually going to a movie right now with your Julia.

The look on my lead’s face at this point can be most aptly described as horrified. Her eyes widened to the size of baseballs as I could feel myself turn many shades of bright red as I quickly tried to explain, no no no I meant like going to a movie with Julia and other people, lots of other people, in fact pretty much the whole company such its pretty much guaranteed that I will be continuously surrounded with at least 20 people between Julia and I…

[ esca | 8:38 AM | ]

 

Girls don't like Boys Girls like cars and money

I've been meaning to blog about whether or not guys and girls can truly be "just friends" for a couple weeks now. Inspired in part, by jon's philosophical journey into the platonic. Every time I sit down to try to write some thoughts down though, I just end up getting jumbled in my mind. Its a confusing topic. Especially if you've ever been caught in the middle. Still, here's to one man's two cents.

Personally, I've been in a lot of situations when a female friend of mine, starts to become more than just a friend. At least in thought and mindset. Its when you look at a friend and think, wow, she's really special. And it happens so often that you start to ask yourself, wait a minute, explain to me exactly why I'm not pursuing her?

Well for many reasons, but the point is, at an age and juncture in lives where we spend so much time actively pursuing the person that we want to spend your life with, its can get clouded with opposite sex friends. When I think about the girls in my life that have made the deepest impression, I think foremost of Liz, but also a lot of my friends, like Isabel. I still the remember the day when she showed me her purple ranmaesque contacts to go along with her lightly blue dyed hair. It was the first time I really ever stared into someone's eyes.

I guess it was always confusing to me, to feel like it would be ok to like someone, but figuring out that it's not a two way street. There's nothing more heart rending in this life than to have your love unreturned. When you feel like there's something wrong with the only part of yourself that's truly beautiful. Its not very fun at all.

I think to this day, I've learned that its a losing battle to try to deny how you feel. I've learned through experience that when I see an angel across from me in the room, I can't help but catch my tongue in my throat, and my usually garrulous self becomes shy and quiet. I can't help whoever my heart decides to like, as fickle and whimsical as it may be. But I'm ok with it now. Wherever that takes me.

So being attracted to friends is ok in my book, its going to happen a couple times in anyone's life. But its ok as long as its understood. If you're both on the level so to speak. Its a compliment really, like saying I think a guy like me would get along really well with a girl like you. There's enough people in our lives we don't like to deal with, so let's get to be selfish once in a while.

[ esca | 10:37 PM | ]

 

Go Shortah...Its yo birfday

Ah...the carnage. In color:

[ esca | 11:42 PM | ]