meeting new people

so, tonight was a going away party for jeff. jeff is the guy who played the emperor in the play i finished just before christmas. he's the penis part of the boobs and penis show... he's also the one i told you about that i really liked a lot and was courting in that fun developing a new friendship kind of way. well, it worked, i've sucked him into my web, er, i mean, he's now a friend...

and, now that i've got this great new guelph friend who i really like a lot, who is smart and funny and caring and has that little biting edge that i like to see in my friends, well, now he's moving away. *sigh* ;) actually, it's really great, he's going to be a host on a cruise ship, which is a great opportunity for him, he'll get to travel, get out of here, try a new job, and if he ends up hating it, it's only based on 4 month contracts or something like that.

so, yeah, background finished, now onto the actual posting...

tonight was a going away dinner thing for him and i met a very very very wonderful man. seriously. his name is scott. he's a lawyer. we have all sorts of mutual friends and aquantences (mum, he knows robbie, in fact they've worked on cases together...) and it was fun to go through that list with him. he's smart and funny and biting. he's all those things i look for in a friend. i'm not sure what it is, but i *loved* this guy. seriously, he rocks! i would love to have him as a friend, to sit and drink coffee with him and just yak and yak. and normally in this situation what i would do is, well, the same thing i did with jeff. court him essentially. you know, in the friendship platonic kind of way. but yeah, courting nonetheless. but, the catch here is, he lives in hamilton and won't be doing anything with theatre for the next year. and i'm not sure that just hanging out for a couple of hours at a mutual friend's goodbye party is enough to get to the point where i can email him or phone him and see if he wants to hang out. even i don't move that fast when building friendships. but yeah, he's great. and i'm at that kind of anti-climactic dissapointed state where i'm pretty sure i'm not actually going to get to be friends with him.

*sigh*

oh well, i had a fabulous night with some great people. thanks jeff, and as long as you come home then it will be all good. *grin*