"Don't call us. We're eating and watching the monkeys."

[napoleonherself]

Here is some before-bed introspection, to create a delightfully jarring counterpoint to my last post. (which I still love, btw.)

I am bad at making friends when it's not via the shiny box on my desk. The last time I actually made a non-online friend was back in high school -- and keep in mind, I graduated in 1999. And even then, looking back, it seems that I really only made friends when the other individuals made some obvious overture of friendliness, thus letting me know that they wouldn't be averse to hanging out with me.

This very seldom bothers me. Sure, I never made a single schooltypefriend during my entire four years at CSUF, but so what? There were some people I might've liked to've known better, like the guy in my bio class who came from Sweden to live with his fiancée's family and said fiancée, or the one person who recognized my Halloween 'costume' as a Red Dwarf reference. But the fact is that I usually just don't much LIKE the people I meet in meatspace. So if I continue to feel alienated and apart from them, then it doesn't much matter, right? Sure.

As it's probably easy to surmise from the fact that this post exists, though, this time it DOES bother me. Because I have really taken a liking to Colin, AKA Cold Stone Guy. The way he chooses to express himself, both in class and when I see him at Cold Stone, suggest that he is both intelligent and possessed of a sense of humor compatible with my own. He actually reminds me of certain aspects of various of my closest online friends. In short, I think would be neat to make friends with good sir Cold Stone Guy.

This, of course, leads back to the start of this introspective blathering: I suck at making meatspace friends. In addition, I have utterly lost all knowledge I once had of how to make meatspace friends with a guy without coming off as some crazy lovestruck stalker chick. I befriend men far more often than other women. That's just how I am. Other women have a tendency to bore and/or disgust me. However, that's a little hard to explain to someone who may already be wondering where you're going to hide the body.

And now, for those of you with short attention spans who do not want to read the long paragraphs (I'm looking in your direction, BRIAN), I present the following summary:

"Jenny no make friends good. Person neat. Jenny want make friends person. Person boy, Jenny girl. Jenny no want person to run in terror. Jenny just want friends. Fire good. Fire goooood."

Now, since I am sleepy, and since I FINALLY brought myself to switch off zSNES and thus cannot continue playing "just one more day" in Harvest Moon: bed.

The subject line is from the Daily Show, incidentally. Jon Stewart polkas.

Comments

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

A summary just for me?! You're so sweet! And now if I made a list of the best quotes seen on my friends page so far this week "as well as the ability to sit down." and "Fire good. Fire goooood." would be numbers one and two.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I just know you too well, you big meanie. :P

Also, yay! I am quotable!

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

No no no...I am a nice guy! And I read your paragraphs! I may not read everyone's but I read yours.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Bah. You're just saying that to convince me of this lie that you are nice.

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

There are no lies! I'm nice, through and through. Now, I will admit when most of my LJ friends go on and on and start using big paragraphs, I might start to skim. But that's becuase most of the people on my "friends" list aren't really friends! They're just weird internet people. You're weird internet people, sure, but yo'ure still my friend.

[whitenoise.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to let you know that I feel your pain. I'm exactly the same way. In my entire life, I've made only five friends on my own... and even that was just because they started talking to me. I've had a few other friends that were introduced to me. I only had one friend (who is my cousin and current roommate) From the time I was born up until I was, like, 16.

Things are tough for us socially anxious folks.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

It is not fair, and I demand recompense. In the form of, I dunno, money and adoring masses, or something.

Is that an icon of Poe dressed up like a clown? 'Cause if so, dude, that's hypercreepy.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

I do recall making one friend in university by stomping up to them and saying "HI!" and asking to borrow his magnifier, and the main point I took away from this is; there's always someone shyer than you in some situation.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Given that we have a midterm in less than a week and I have yet to find a copy of the book to buy, I may just be forced into a similar situation...

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Hey, I sometimes frequent meatspace! We could get together and then you might have a real-life friend... who you met online... which does altogether shadow the point I would have been trying to make...

Who knows, we may have bumped into each other before and not known it. Meanwhile, we should meet up again, and shame on you for forgetting me! Do you frequent Sam Goody at the College Mall much?

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I actually don't think I've been in there a single time. Also, the phrase "shadow the point" makes me think of the one Animaniacs episode where they used the pun "beyond the shadow of a Dot". I am strange.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are. But we should conspire to be there at the same time at some point... or perhaps another location, although I prefer Sam Goody because they've got an [insert not entirely thrilled adjective here] anime collection and they're close to my apartment. And it's a mall. There's also Avalon, the new gaming store just down Third, but I haven't been there either. Still, I know some of the guys who work there from when they used to work at Sam Goody.

[id-42.livejournal.com]

You mentioned this guy seems to have a similar sense of humor to your own. Would it be possible to tell him, either verbally or through some manner of text medium (your choice of electronic or dead-tree) that you were interested in hanging out with him sometime BUT WERE NOT REPEAT NOT A CRAZY STALKER? If you could make a joke out of it, it might not only get the point across, but be amusing as well- and being amusing is its own reward! ^_^

No, but seriously though.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Yeah, could be. I am just so damnéd uncertain!

[emsworth.livejournal.com]

Does the class you're in have much discussion? You could always take the "serious academic" route, and say, "I was quite intrigued by your position regarding fundamental differences in the treatment of fungus in noted collectors of pedal extremities, yet not entirely sure I support your conclusion. Care to tell me more?"

Works for me! Of course, my few college friends are either former co-workers/McNair scholarship people (most of whom I've lost touch with) or older women, often with sons my age. This is probably due to the fact that they're the only other people who actually remember the dead character actors I adore so much.