Isn't it ironic?

Taylor and I were chatting about deal-breakers during dinner earlier tonight, and we discovered that we have plenty in common.

Later in the evening, I remembered another one: social ineptitude.

I was reminded of this when I could come up with no good reason for a text message I'd received earlier in the day; Taylor kindly reminded me that guys have a tendency to be stupid. While I agreed, I didn't think that it was the reasoning behind this message.

I was at my friends' house, watching "Grey's Anatomy" and discussing relationships (which inevitably happens while watching "Grey's"), when I mentioned the text. My friend turned and looked at me and said, "He's a social idiot! There's nothing you can do about that."

Lightbulb.

I can't take social idiocy, nor do I have the patience to try and fix it - if they're even willing to consider their ineptitude an issue. Most won't.

So there it is - I knew something had to be wrong with him. He's interested in me, after all, and I seem to attract social idiots by the swarms.

I'll still talk to him, I'll still hang out with him, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no dating potential there whatsoever.

Probably a good thing I'd still rather be single.

Sworn Enemies

I once swore that math was my worst enemy, mostly because I thought I was bad at it. And I am bad at it, in one sense. I detest things like geometry or trigonometry, because I don't like working with angles, proofs, theorems, and so forth. It doesn't make sense to me. Algebra, on the other hand, and I get along quite well, since it's logical. To me.
Simple things like balancing my checkbook, budgeting, and keep track of my expenses is fun - I like simple math. It's no problem (no pun intended) for me.
All along I thought I was terrible at math, and I developed a hatred for it because it made me look bad. Turns out, I'm not so bad at it after all. And really - what's the point of geometry anyway? (Structural engineers need not answer that question.)
Anyway, the point is that numbers and I will never have the same relationship that I do with words, but I guess we aren't really enemies either. Who'd have thought?