Yup. It’s the lovelorn lass from up north again.
AnnaL has told the highlander in whose company she is often seen that he acted horribly towards her.
This was after he began to protest that a relationship was impossible. His protestations were spurred on by my asking him to stop with the Beckett for five seconds. We were out with other postgraduates, doing other topics and having a good time. I was also informed that he was taking control of his life by not drinking. I was happy for him. Until he started telling me he wasn’t drinking with pint after pint in front of him.
Flash forward to later in the evening, hours after I have been pawed in a nightclub by a stranger, I ask him to cut out the crap and say yes or no. He overexplains everything. I recieved the ‘reasons why I am not drinking’ lecture five times over, in more detail than I needed. He says no, I am fine with this. All I wanted was an answer and my Tom Waits back. I am told that I was a drunken mistake. Yes, okay, I was a bit pissed too. I am also told that I am a good pal, it’s just that we can’t talk, meet each other or do anything together. If we pass each other in the hallway, we are allowed to say hello, maybe talk about the weather. At this point, I don’t care. It’s half three and he begins to lecture me on literary theory. I tune out and nod for the next hour and crash on his couch, as I am not walking home at half four.
Two days later, we are at the society (of which we are both members). He makes an announcement to the group and starts with his pointless elaboration. At which point he stops and says- “oh, but there I go explaining things too much again”.
He can feck off. I get yelled at if I mention we were in the same room together with twenty other people.
One last e-mail has been passed, as I am no longer allowed to correspond.
“Thanks for the couch, the tea and the roll, thanks for the cds back. Sorry you felt you had to get that dig in”.
feh. Just in time for Valentine’s Day. I don’t care. I have Tom Waits. All is right with the world.
AL
