I'm so glad that at least two of these appear to be Dante mooning after Beatrice. It tickles my little nerdy heart.
TOASTS HELLO LONG TIME NO THREAD CHAT HI HELLO MY LIFE IS GOOD
The company where I've been an intern for the past 6 months hired me, praise be to Ada Lovelace! I'm a grownup! Wahoo!
And I'm dating an amazing cutie who writes poetry in praise of me when they get drunk! (last night it was a limerick). Life is wonderful!!!
Yo, toasticles, long time no chat. I'm about to basically go ask one of the partners at the company I've been a contract worker at since September to hire me permanently, so, you know, quietly panicking.
Petrarchan! With an actual rhyming scheme and no drunken typos!
Popping in to say that sometimes, when you date MFA candidates, and you joking suggest that they might write a sonnet in your honor, they will get drunk on a thursday night and actually do it. Also sometimes they're Toast readers, who could be reading this comment RIGHT NOW (If that's the case, you know who you are, and you're a peach see you on Sunday).
Hello, Toasticles! This time, in the ongoing saga of EJ13 Schtupps Quirky but Arguably Ill Advised Menfolk - last night I hooked up with a dude with the word "grammar!" tattooed on his forearm. Exclamation point included. Where would we be without Tinder? Better rested, to be sure, and absent a sense of vague regret.
My NYE plans involve isolated witchery and self care, which I hope sets the tone for 2015.
Yeah, I'm in a situation where I'm not sure whether I want to establish a platonic friendship with someone I had a brief but intense fling with. I sort of feel like knowing him as a normal human would curb the romanticization process, but it might just suck instead.
Temptress' lair yessss. I've taken to mentally referring to my bedroom as "the inner sanctum". Can we have a thread about the perils and joys of the dating world? I'm preparing myself to ease back into it, and I'm a little trepidatious.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HOT DATES BET YOU'RE A HOTTIE TOO YAY!!!
So, does anyone else do that thing where they romanticize people from their past into neat little narratives? And then, like, swoon over them everyone once in a while until they cease to be human? I think I do that a lot, and i'm not sure it's healthy. Related - anyone have any success stories of being "just friends" with someone they used to date, in a normal, non-torturous way?
Okay, first topic for the thread (startin' off easy). This is my last day of work at my delightful job before a two week break! Huzzah! And I get to come back after! The employment gods are smiling today. Getting ready to go home for the holidays, and I want to know, Toasties, what are you planning on cooking??? I have a very elaborate spreadsheet in the works...
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