5pm Dread
5pm Friday should be when my step gets a little lighter, when excitement builds up inside. The week is over, and I have three full nights and two full days of weekend. No work (except for the occasional email,) no alarm clock, no co-workers.
5pm Friday now kinda sucks. Sure, the work week is over, but the week was when I was busy 24/7. I had 10-hour days at the office, and 2 hour plans at night. I watched my DVR, I went to the gym, I went out to dinner. Everything was rushed, I was always running.
Now, I need to make plans again. I get to be the third wheel with my friends and their husbands or boyfriends. I realize how empty my bed is on the weekends. It painfully reminds me of my new singlehood. Sunday brunches are no longer The Man and I curled up with the Times and a PB&J bagel. Sunday brunch is a powerbar on the way to the gym. I am more quiet on the weekends as I talk less. I have less people to talk to. I get bored.
And anyone who knows me knows that boredom and I go together like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards.
5pm Friday now kinda sucks. Sure, the work week is over, but the week was when I was busy 24/7. I had 10-hour days at the office, and 2 hour plans at night. I watched my DVR, I went to the gym, I went out to dinner. Everything was rushed, I was always running.
Now, I need to make plans again. I get to be the third wheel with my friends and their husbands or boyfriends. I realize how empty my bed is on the weekends. It painfully reminds me of my new singlehood. Sunday brunches are no longer The Man and I curled up with the Times and a PB&J bagel. Sunday brunch is a powerbar on the way to the gym. I am more quiet on the weekends as I talk less. I have less people to talk to. I get bored.
And anyone who knows me knows that boredom and I go together like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards.
posted by Does Debbie @ 5:15 PM
16 Comments:
At 11:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hopefully you were not as bored as you feared. I debatd whether to write this post as the DD faithful clearly have voted against me, but I am a persistent one. After you suffered through a weekend of boredom hopefully I will bring a smile to your face when I share the following....I did find myself at times wondering if debbie (you, not some other one, silly) was having a good weekend, and more importantly whether I would ever have the chance to give you the something to anticipate and look forward to. Then again, I did receive the cyber-kiss of death from your friends, so maybe our brief cyber friendship is reaching its untimely conclusion....of course part of the anticipation I could provide (and my relatively feeble attempt to ressurect my lost cause) is the occassional trip to my summer house in nantucket, which, by the way, is especially beautiful in the fall
At 11:27 AM,
Anonymous said…
hey Anon. read the posts carefully. no one voted against you. they voted against debbie giving you her email address on this public forum. meaning, they voted for you and her to keep your communications in the public space where we can all enjoy them. and that if you really wanted to have private communication with her the gentlemenly thing to do would be to give her an email address. your missing this means you either have poor reading comprehension skills, or are too old to be technically savvy enough to create your own new gmail account.
At 11:31 AM,
Anonymous said…
that's all well and good that you have a summer house in nantucket. but we need other clues as to your existence. for example...what color hair? how old? what do you do for a living? where did you go to college? what degree type? where did you grow up? are you jewish?
At 12:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
I agree... I am all for you keeping up your BPR (blog post relationship) with DD. I just think she is in a place that she needs to be a bit careful.
At some point, you can be a gentleman and give her your PO (personal information) and she can decide if she would like to continue to communicate with her outside of the BPR. But by all means, if it perks up her day, and you enjoy communicating with her via BPR, I think it is great!
At 1:04 PM,
Does Debbie said…
Hi. I agree with Anon #3. I, too, wish to know more about Mr. Anon. Details please!
At 3:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
I am glad you finally asked about bachelor number 1....for a quick bio, I will share the following: I am in my mid 30's, just about 6 feet tall (not a jewish 6 feet, but a real 6 feet), I have light brwn hair and blue eyes (shockingly enough), I currently find myself entertained by the world of finance, but broke my mothers heart when I decided to enter that after my residency, most importantly, I am Jewish...so, in the immortal words of Linda Richman, the topic is jewish, doctor, finance, talk amongst yourselves
At 10:56 PM,
Does Debbie said…
Mr. Anon- good start. Care to appease my curiosity? Where did we meet?
At 10:31 AM,
Anonymous said…
We've met on a few occassions, one of which was a bar, mutual friends party...although different friends caused us to be there (ie one was friends with the host, the other was friends with a friend of the host). Do I get to ask a question now? If so, what happened with you and the Fool?
At 11:22 AM,
Does Debbie said…
A-
You can ask me any questions you want, however, I will not discuss The Man on my blog, sorry. I made a promise to him that I intend on keeping. Who is our mutual friend?
At 11:41 AM,
Anonymous said…
I am not sure that there is a "traditional" mutual friend, as we had different connections to the party. I understand and respect your promise.
At 1:09 PM,
Does Debbie said…
Ok, I call Bullshit. I honestly don't think there is an anonymous poster, and that it's someone fucking with me. So fess up!
At 1:27 PM,
Anonymous said…
I am actually not fucking with you, but if you prefer I will stop commenting. That is unfortuante as i do find you very cute, very witty and intelligent and was curious if we could have had more of a connection when the time was right.
At 1:32 PM,
Does Debbie said…
A-
No need to stop, this is fun. How about you give me more to work with, like a name or an email?
-D
At 2:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
ok, you beat me down...for now I will hold my name back, but as for an email, how about thiscouldbefun1@gmail.com. I hope to not disappoint the other DD readers, but it is time that Debbie and I see what kind of cyber-magic we can create in a more personal setting.
At 3:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
way to go mr. anon. mad props to you for sacking up!
At 2:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
I probably shouldn't be re-opening this can of worms, but since this is the internet and the passage of time kind of works in funny ways - I was recently contacted via a personal ad I had posted ad by a young woman, with a photo, very enthusiastically soliciting me for nude photos and stories of my fetishes. she claimed to be a bisexual freshman at NYU who was very into sexually dominating scrawny older guys like me. wow, i just scored. so i googled "her" email name just to see if she had a myspace or facebook profile, and came across this webpage. added "thiscouldbefun1@gmail.com" to my google chat list and sure enough i started getting chats from "Nadia" via that address, complete with "her" characteristic bad typing and internet abbreviations. "Her" other IM address is "iminnyc2003a" and "she" also uses "thiscouldbefun1@yahoo.com" as an email. So whoever this "Anonymous Admirer" claims he (or she i guess) is, he's also impersonating college-aged girls in online personal ads and trying to solicit men for cyber sex (and who knows what other kids of scams or setups) way to go. guess you'll have to sign up for another gmail account and try again.
anyway, just leaving this as a signpost for anyone else who's run across this guy and wants to know what his deal was.
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