A few random ponderances on Valentine's Day, now that I'm celebrating it with somebody, rather than spending it thinking about how I'm not doing that.
1. In the store buying flowers and chocolate yesterday, I observed that the age gap between me and the rest of the guys doing the same thing was on order of 15 or 20 years. Coupled with Sarah's observation that there didn't seem to be a lot going on at Yale, and I'm left somewhat confused. Certainly OSU was pretty rampant with people doing Valentine's stuff, which is part of the reason why it was so annoying.
2. Thursday is a really retarded day for a holiday.
3. As a holiday, I'm fairly certain the whole thing is kind of a wash, especially considering the whole "makes single people feel downtrodden" thing. As an excuse to, you know, hang out with my girlfriend and get her nice stuff, not to mention having a nice dinner (which is her being nice to ME), it works out fairly well. But since I don't need a whole lot of excuse for this stuff, well.
4. Speaking of which, some of you know that part of the evening's festivities will be watching a debate between Ron Jeremy and some anti-porn Christian guy, which should be entertaining. It would appear that the whole thing will be televised on ABC's Nightline, tonight, so you can all tune in if you like. I'm also told that we're watching You've Got Mail at some other point during the night, which is an...interesting contrast.
5. In another of those problems that I never had when I was single, I've discovered that I really lack suitable outer shirts in the range between "flannel" and "nice suit jacket" which provides me with a problem as I dress up in slacks and a nice shirt for tonight - I need a dark jacket, and I don't have one. This has never before been a problem for me. When you couple that with that out of the last four times I've gotten flowers, I've A) been involved in a car accident; B) gone on a multi-city, multi-hour trek, I suppose you've got to start wondering about women.
Well, maybe not.
Posted by Dwip at February 15, 2008 12:06 PM