{"id":133,"date":"2008-05-07T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=133"},"modified":"2008-05-07T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:32:47","slug":"title-is-missing-characters-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/05\/07\/title-is-missing-characters-isnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"title is missing characters isn&#8217;t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as low maintenance. In relationships I&#8217;ve kind of figured I trot along on my own accord and it&#8217;s sort of taken me a while to get the other side of that coin. As time goes along I&#8217;ve gotten a better idea of what I&#8217;m looking for in a relationship but I&#8217;ve always known that someone wanting to be around me is pretty high on that list. It doesn&#8217;t sound like it should need to be, although I realize upon thought that many people don&#8217;t share that desire; in a Denis Leary <em>just eat, fuck, and stay the hell away from each other<\/em> sort of way. But it has apparently been hard, for different reasons. I&#8217;ve dated girls that wanted to be left alone when upset and didn&#8217;t want someone near, for whatever deeper psychological reason (I tend to leave labeling those sort of problems to the college graduates with degrees and less indifference to the art). Which I realize is a bit of a personality thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve quipped about it in the past, because I&#8217;m sarcastic I suppose, but mostly I want someone around to share life with. I don&#8217;t have an expectations of spending every moment around someone, although I&#8217;ve almost been accused of that before but it was more along the lines of being too intense. Because I am.<\/p>\n<p>I am an emotionally intense person, although they&#8217;re sort of the runts of the litter sometimes. When things are gloomy though, little cheers me up as much as being close to someone I like. I just saw a quote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Long-Way-Down\/Nick-Hornby\/e\/9781594481932\">book<\/a> Tori bought me that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The cure for unhappiness is happiness. I don\u2019t care what anybody says.&#8221; &#8211; Elizabeth McCracken<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cats seem to get it, which was kind of odd and made me giggle. They&#8217;d come in and lie down with me and it&#8217;s nice to think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m upset and they know that I&#8217;d like someone near even thought it seems real folk don&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t complain a whole lot that anyone should be around that isn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t believe that, I suppose it&#8217;s just that it feels there&#8217;s too much loneliness going around right now. And it seems like a shame that is something that never got figured out and communicated in the past. It&#8217;s far too easy to think about communication when there&#8217;s no need to though, and that much harder to do it when feelings are at stake.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, my mom&#8217;s mother told me tonight I should go drink a nice cold Irish Ale. I&#8217;m not sure if it was an attempt to connect with me or not, I&#8217;m not real sure how to take that. It was a weird conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a broken record saying I&#8217;ve sort of figured out more and more bits about what I like in life, and speak up about them a bit more, which is something I&#8217;ve definitely slacked on in the past. I suppose more and more I pick up on the uniqueness of people and live with it better, which is good because I think the two are inexplicably linked. Ah, my heads pretty much a wash today. Thus leaving work early. I think it&#8217;s time to see if I can find some food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as low maintenance. In relationships I&#8217;ve kind of figured I trot along on my own accord and it&#8217;s sort of taken me a while to get the other side of that coin. As time goes along I&#8217;ve gotten a better idea of what I&#8217;m looking for in a relationship but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}