It\u2019s Sunday and normally I would be telling you about the week ahead, but there is no week ahead \u2013 it\u2019s today, tomorrow, and Tuesday and that\u2019s it, no more daily posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I must admit, when I decided to do this, I didn\u2019t know what I was getting myself into. Well, I did and I didn\u2019t. Writing everyday is hard. Do I have any writers out there? But here we are, and here I am, writing at the last minute again. What\u2019s it going to take for me to get out of that habit? That\u2019s going to be a goal of mine. I\u2019m going to set getting out of the habit of writing at the last minute to be a goal I achieve by the end of the year. You know, gotta give myself some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I guess the most important thing I can do is write. Better the last minute than not at all. Looking back, I probably should have discussed current events more here, or stuff I read about or saw on the news. I think the only thing in the news that I talked about here was how I discovered who Rich Paul is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, I was supposed to talk about being social versus being alone, but I don\u2019t think I really talked about that too much. I guess I can expound on that a little more. A lot of people have thought that I\u2019m an introvert because I\u2019m a loner, but I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s really the case. I mean I not really an extravert either, but I think I\u2019m definitely not an introvert. I talk to people in social settings, though I usually don\u2019t initiate the conversation. However once you initiate it, I will make you feel like you are the most important person in the world. I will listen to you blah on about whatever even if it doesn\u2019t interest me, because it kinda interests me that you think anybody would want to hear whatever uninteresting thing you\u2019re talking about. So even though I was initially uninterested I\u2019m now interested \u2013 but only to a certain extent. I also have a hard time leaving people who come up to me. I should take cues from how people leave me, but I don\u2019t because I\u2019m always thinking I don\u2019t want to be rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Switching gears a little bit, I have this saying that there\u2019s always room for one. It\u2019s one of the great things about going places alone. You can still find a good seat at a concert last minute, you can sit at the bar in a crowded or booked restaurant. In so many instances, people tend to be fine with squeezing in one. So when I went to the Bahamas in August I was a bit dismayed when my party-of-one winning-streak seemed to run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We stayed at the Baha Mar \u2013 my mother was there for a conference, I was there for some R&R. They have a waterpark there that\u2019s free with your room and I went there by myself. I was going to get on this one slide when the attendant told me no. That slide needed at least too people. There was also another slide, which I overheard was fun, that also needed at least two people. It was like for the first time I was being penalized for being one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They had three other slides that single people could ride. One was called the devil\u2019s backbone, which I tried and felt like I was drowning the entire time. Consequently, I didn\u2019t set foot near that one again. Then there was another slide that just drops you straight down \u2013 that was never going to be an option. Finally there was a slide called pirate\u2019s plunge which dropped you into 12 feet of water. I typically don\u2019t fuck with pools that are deeper than I am tall, so I didn\u2019t do that one either. So the whole time I was there, I pretty much was relegated to the wave pool that was 5ft deep and the lazy river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s interesting how all the single rider slides were like daredevil slides, as if that\u2019s what you\u2019d have to be to go to a waterpark alone. And all the fun slides were for parties of two or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I\u2019m no hater, maybe it\u2019s just a sign that I need to put some effort into turning my one into a two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s Sunday and normally I would be telling you about the week ahead, but there is no week ahead \u2013 it\u2019s today, tomorrow, and Tuesday and that\u2019s it, no more daily posting. I must admit, when I decided to do…<\/p>\n