Dear Diary . . . day by day

Friday, July 7th - "I've got a crush on you . . . sweetie pie . . . all the day and nighttime . . "
I'm sorry I've been so lax with these entries. I have a really good story about last weekend, which I sorta started in my July 5th entry, but have yet to get to the good part. Then it got twisted and put into a SF story that I started yesterday. And I'm all excited about my old cat story but I sit down and start yet ANOTHER speculative fiction story - I have too many ideas and not enough discipline! My kingdom for some focus!
What kingdom? Good question.
I got a weird email this morning from The Spark with the subject line: "Someone you know likes you!". It seems they have this service where you sign up and list emails of people you like and they'll send those folks a note letting them know someone they know likes them. Then they can go and sign up and list emails of people they would like to hang with, and if you happen to list the same person who sent you the email, then they let you both know that.
Now, my coworkers that I showed this to had the "how junior high!" reaction, which I understand but don't quite agree with. There is something exciting about being a grownup and getting an annoymous note from a secret admirer; who says we have to be serious about crushes, just because we're over 21? Adults don't giggle enough, that's what I say!
Anyhow, I was comforted by the wording on the site:
"So if you match, it means the person who listed you thinks you're cool. That's it. The best results come when you list a mix of friends you like and others you want to know better."
I'm all into friends right now; I've been failing miserably at any sort of dating attempt (wait 'till you hear the story from last weekend, and you'll see more clearly what I mean), but my friendships seem more solid as a result.
Of course, the temptation here is to list everyone I think it could be, just to see who it was. That's not quite fair, I suppose. There's only one person I think I would be happy dating right now, and I've already confirmed with that person that that's not going to happen (read: I was rejected and am licking my wounds like a wounded puppy and not willing to trust anyone else just yet). But I suppose if I make it clear that this is just a "get to know you better/become better friends thing" then it would be cool to hang out with someone new . . .
Why do I babble about this so much here? Because this email from TheSpark came to my gryffyn@there.net address, which is the one I list here on my webpage. I suppose this is my way of letting him or her know that if they get a match with me, this is where my boundaries lie. But there are several of you with whom I wouldn't mind going for coffee and chatting for awhile, so I'm gonna go ahead and make a list . . . I think.
Exercise log:
Lifted weights both Wednesday and Thursday nights: Chest, triceps, back, biceps and abs.
Writing log:
Wrote 2000 words of a new sf story. Then I found out my instructor really really liked my first story (cat story), so I think I'll go back and finish that one first. I think.
I'm currently reading:
Store of Infinity by Robert Sheckley

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