more than empire strikes back

this weekend vegas told me he loves me more than empire strikes back, which is his favorite starwars movie.

i told him i love him more than indiana jones which is an equal exchange of our nerdy affection.

national geographic

this guy is a friend of one of my best friends.  i met him at a dinner party one of the matts threw and i noticed him giving me the eyes a lot of the time.  he is tall, dark, classically handsome and kind of dresses like an old man traveling overseas.  khakis, a button-up, maybe a sweater vest with canvas sneakers or old school new balances….get it?

anyway, he was super nice, and i invited him to a few things after that, none of which he could attend (he travels a lot for work).  so, i cool on him, figure he just wants an awesome chick to hang out with once in awhile.  well, then he asks me to go to the movies with him.  ok.  sure.  this was may of this year, and i suggest seeing the newest indiana jones that was coming out.  he says “sure” and then the day of the date he suggests going to “silverdocs” which is a documentary film festival in silver spring.  again, i’m agreeable, and i drive out to silver spring to meet him.  i ask him for directions to the theatre and he says “google that shit!”  hm.  ok.

so, i get there and get in line.  he shows a few minutes later.  he gets my ticket, that is nice, and we go see a 2 hour, completely subtitled documentary on stolen media in iran.  yup.  not exactly indiana jones, but it is interesting, and somewhat entertaining, and the chair wasn’t THAT hard.  ok, the chair was that hard. 

afterward we go and grab some guinnesses at a local pub.  he starts talking about the latest project he is working on for work.  he’s going to be traveling to new york to produce a special on genetic migrations and find out how people from different lines ended up there. 

or something.

national geographic then clarifies….or tries to….and says something like “well, we can map a path of migration by the mutating mitochondria that occurs every 500 generations in the human genome.” 

or something.

now, i’m no dummy, but wtf. 

i mean, it IS interesting….to someone else.  i’m sure.  but i would be dishonest if i said it didn’t mostly go over my head.

i tell him about what i do, how i love seeing patients get better, recover, get their mobility and lives back.  and i am just me.  i’m not trying to impress him with obscure terms that i haven’t heard since biology classes in college.  i’m just being me.  being nice, sincere and open.

i don’t want to seem like i don’t care about what national geographic is working on.  that isn’t it.  but, a job is a job.  it doesn’t necessarily define or describe someone.  what i want to know is why you love it or hate it.  how do you feel about people you meet along the way?  what makes your world turn?  what you are learning and why it is making the world better? 

i had a nice time, and i love intellectual banter, but i was exhausted after this.  and i still didn’t feel like i had gotten to know him.

how will national geographic ever understand why ghostbusters is one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time?  or why gremlins is my favorite christmas movie?  i don’t think it would work.

 national geographic fits nicely into the friend category, and that is where he’ll stay.

 

**btw, bob took me to see indiana jones opening night.  we also saw iron man and the dark knight, and he makes me laugh so hard my stomach hurts when i’m with him.   bob also asked me to come over thurs night…i didn’t go.  he asked me to stay at the barbeque longer on sunday, and i left.  go me. 

**i also hung out with vegas last night.  watched the game until it ended.  so glad the steelers won, but disappointed that it took until overtime to do it.  we made tentative plans about breaking in my new dvd player by watching wayne’s world, but nothing set yet.