I guess I should be flattered

It happened again, someone wanted me fixed up with their daughter. I know this doesn't happen often but it's happened on a number of occasions. Usually it's my mom trying to fix me up with someone or trying to convince me that I should go for some girl even though I know for a fact that the aren't interested in me. Like I said, I'm used to that. For whatever reason she seems to be really over-eager for me to find someone and decides she should try to help rather than leave me to my own devices. I'm convinced that I'll come home for break sometime and she'll be letting me know when my wedding is (I'll of course have to ask her permission to meet my bride first).

So anyway back to people trying to fix me up with their daughters... Like I said, it isn't the first time it's happened. For whatever reason a lot of people's parents seem to decide that they really like me and think that I'm the type of guy they want their daughters to be with. Normally either the daughters have other opinions (unfortunately) or the simple fact that their parents like me and encourage them to give me a chance is enough to make them think otherwise.

Here's how it went down.

We took my mom out for a late birthday dinner. After dinner since we were in Selinsgrove already my dad wanted to go to the wal mart down there to try to find a battery for the lawn tractor. On the way in to the store I see some guy in a truck that was about to pull out of the parking lot waving at us to stop. It was a friend of my mom and his daughter. So he pulled off to the side and got out. Turns out he had needed to call her about something and figured this was just as good. So as they're talking he says something to me about how his daughter had decided not to go to Pitt for grad school and was going to Gannon (towards Erie) and told me to go ask her about getting lost when she was out in Pittsburgh. I went over and we talked for a few minutes. It had been a long time since I had seen her and wasn't even sure that she'd remember me. She did. After they leave my mom commented that "I don't think she's seeing anyone right now." Typical. Like I said, she's always trying to fix me up. I started to tell her to CTFO (if you aren't familiar with the concept you should ask Mendick about that one). She then informs me that it was the dad's idea. WTF!?! She said that he had hoped she'd pick Pitt for grad school because I was out there and I could "look after her". This is even more surprising because he's a hardcore Penn State fan (I think he bleeds blue and white) and therefore has always given me crap about how I'm wasting my time at a place like Pitt. So yeah, to want his baby to go to a rival school because of a guy is kinda major. Now obviously this was his idea, not her's. She's certainly an attractive girl as far as that goes but still... The idea of fixed marriages and such just don't really seem to suit me. I guess it's a compliment to me that he trusts me like that or thinks that much of me. Whatever though. Not like I did anything special. Maybe I just have that effect on some people?

I'm definitely gonna continue my own pursuits. I really don't think I need parents (mine or someone else's) to help me out. I think I can do just fine on my own (or with the occasional help of a friend or 2). All is certainly not lost just because I'm still currently single. That'll change, I know that for sure.

The first night I had the pager it went off. Was there any doubt? 2:30am and I get the little beep beep beep telling me there's a problem. It was blackboard (yes they use it too). But of course that's one of the systems that you aren't supposed to do anything about till 6. 3 minutes after receiving the first page I got a second saying the server was back online. It turns out that I was never supposed to get the notification in the first place. I wasn't pleased. Last night it didn't go off. It waited till this morning to go off and it was my.bucknell.edu that was down (yes they have the web portal too). I called my boss and it was scheduled but the notification system didn't know it.

Lunch break is just about over so I'm finished for now. I might post tonight like normal.

That is all,

Eric