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queerbychoice ([personal profile] queerbychoice) wrote2008-04-01 08:43 pm
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Very Bad Day

I broke up with Susan today. Our relationship just hadn't been working anymore since the NCAA women's basketball playoffs started. She wouldn't stop talking about basketball! Ever! Whenever I went over to her place, she spent the whole time in front of the TV, switching from one women's basketball game to another the whole day long, periodically standing up to demonstrate basketball plays to me (as if I'd care!) and telling me how she used them as a high school basketball coach in the past or planned to use them in the future. And it made me realize that since she buys season tickets to the Sacramento Monarchs WNBA games every year, there's really no way of interacting with her at all between mid-winter and the end of summer that doesn't involve constant discussion of basketball. Even when we went camping together so she didn't have access to the games on TV anymore, she kept trying to find them on my car radio, and making us late to class because she had to stop at the nearest store to buy a newspaper and check the women's basketball scores. I just couldn't handle having that much basketball in my life for half of every year. If only we hadn't happened to meet right at the end of last year's WNBA season, I would have recognized our incompatibility much sooner, and we both probably could have been spared a lot of pain.

Another thing that helped me decide I needed to break up with her was her irresponsible behavior in keeping those dangerous fish around. This morning before work, I stuck my hand into the the fish tank to try to remove the dead body of the latest fish they murdered, and the largest of the convict fish (the father of all the tiny mean babies) bit me so deeply on my ring finger that the bone of the whole first joint was exposed. I called in sick to work and went to the hospital, but my doctor said the top two sections of my finger weren't salvageable. She amputated it at the first joint.

So that's how I lost Susan and most of my ring finger on the same day. In other news, I've decided to make use of one good thing I did get from my relationship with Susan - namely, the cooking skills she taught me - by quitting my job as an editor and becoming a professional chef. Oh, and I think I should go back to Kingdom Hall again sometime soon, too.

[identity profile] legolastn.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, what a coincidence that the entry you linked to was on the same day!

[identity profile] dragged-up.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
You just about gave me a heart attack, woman!

[identity profile] gamesiplay.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
This momentarily terrified me. :)

(Not least because I am actually the kind of person who could prompt a breakup because I'm more invested in college basketball than in a significant other!)

[identity profile] hansel25.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
....When I read about the fish biting off your joint, I know it's April's Fool.

But you had me for a while.

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Same here. I was shocked/saddened - then I got to the part with the hand-mangling fish.

[identity profile] blahflowers.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
See, if Hillary Clinton just claimed it was an early April's Day Fool story then she would have been fine... ;-?

[identity profile] kejlina.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
My thought process as I started to read your entry:

"I broke up with Susan today. They broke up? Oh my god! They were so happy! They couldn't possibly....waaaaait a minute......."

[identity profile] mariness.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot believe you attempted to blame this on fish!

(I was, however, completely in tune with the basketball saga. What does that say about me?)

[identity profile] quixotic.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha!!

-a

[identity profile] dzuunmod.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
You had me until the second graph.

[identity profile] meaning-making.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so glad this was a joke! Wow.

[identity profile] frankepi.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You have gullible readers; I only read till the second sentence...

[identity profile] queerbychoice.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
It's good to know that someone knows better than to believe I would dump her for such a silly reason!

[identity profile] wanderingrogue.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm proud to say that I knew it was a joke by the second sentence. That, and I saw the date of the entry. ;)