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DregsInTheCrowd wrote:Which really sucks, actually.

DregsInTheCrowd wrote:I work at a company that manufactures audio and video cables. For the moment, I work in assembly, terminating cables (XLR, BNC, DT12, DT fans, RCA, CAT5, etc). It's a pretty drudgey job, but there are a lot of people in my department who either went to Columbia College with me, or are there now and also majoring in audio engineering.

When I started six months ago, I worked with this beautiful, brilliant, funny girl, who by some crazy bit of coincedence was also a recording engineer. After talking to her for a couple weeks, I decided I really liked her A LOT. Then she was transfered to a cushy desk job. I figured I wouldn't be seeing much of her anymore, so I decided to ask her out for coffee because we just seemed to click. But she rejected me (in the least confrontational manner possible - not responding to my e-mail - yeah an e-mail. I had no idea where she'd been transfered to!). So I let it go.

A couple months later, my friend (now my supervisor) told me she'd actually had a boyfriend for the last three years, with whom she shared an apartment. Well, jeez, that would have been an easy out for her when I asked her out, no? Whatever. I seldom even saw her anymore much less spoke to her - I was over her.

Last week, she came back to work in my department, and sits right next to me. It was supposed to be temporary, but it might end up permanent. She's said that she much prefers soldering cables to her desk job. She hates the boring superficial office folk that she works with.

So we've started talking again, like nonstop. No awkwardness. We just talk and talk and talk for our entire 8 hour shift, about everything. Music, politics, books, parents, Chicago hot dogs, you name it. We just have fun and listen to music (we're working too) and laugh and discuss. We connect on an intellectual level, share a warped sense of humor, and have a thousand things in common, and clearly have a rapport. So, she's in fact MORE awesome than I'd previously thought.

Which really sucks, actually.

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