My housemate’s brother is here for the weekend to visit.

When she found out he was definitely coming, my housemate came to me with one of her more mischievous grins, “So how do you feel about skinny 24-year-olds?”

“You mean outside of the fact that I just finished dating one?”…

So her brother is a skinny 24-year-old geek and he’s adorable. He lives in Connecticut so my housemate’s efforts to set us up are all in vain, but he’s definitely providing a bit of amusement for the weekend, and the perfect source of distraction to keep me away from the metric fuck-tons of work I need to do since next week is the last week of classes for the semester. I was thinking to myself Thursday how nice it would be to make a new friend and … well, her brother and I have spent the past couple nights and this morning talking for hours. It’s been pretty neat. It’s all useless chatter, but he is a good solid geek personality (plus social skills! How exciting!) and … it’s been nice. And he’s somebody to sympathize a bit with my feelings on my housemate’s kids, and to compare notes with on their developing personalities. These kids are going to grow up to be some really, really interesting people. Especially the one with the evil smile. Great things could happen to her if she turns that evil into something creative. J

Oh well. Back to work for a bit. Stress is putting me in a positively foul mood but I’m finally coming to my standard realization that the only way to improve that distemper is to just suck it up and get something done. Sigh. So back to it I suppose…