Weird Things

Today as I was eating lunch, some guy came and sat down next to me, and started talking. I thought it was kind of weird, because it's not like there aren't other empty seats in the food court. From the cheery way he said "hey" as he sat down, I thought it was someone I knew, so I just kept on stuffing lunch in my mouth. I stared at his face for a bit as he asked me how my weekend was, just to confirm that no, I do not know this guy.

I spent a while thinking "is he trying to hit on me or something"-- and he probably wasn't, but it was totally weird having someone sit next to you and just start talking as if they've known you for a long time. I was confused for ages- because in all my life, the only people who've tried to talk to me out of nowhere, are people who are devoted to God and have tried to convince me to join their church group on Friday night. Yeah, I must seem like an easy target to clergymen or something. Whether I'm walking home from the library or just waiting for a bus- they leap out from the shadows and want to ask me about my name/age/work before flattering me and trying to make me go to church.

Anyway, the whole "woah some random is talking to me" thing was totally baffling, but he was a nice guy so whatever. He told me he had really bad taste, then proceeded to recommend DC titles I've never heard of. I wanted to ask him what the difference between Batman and Spiderman was, but I didn't want to troll someone too much on our first meeting.

So uh anyway, that happened. On an unrelated note, I'm going to buy myself an e-book reader, because it's totally unnecessary and I'm borderline depressed, so I need to spend some money to cheer myself up. My excuse is that if e-book reader will pay for itself if it can stop me from buying books for about a month- which is totally true- but because I'm a sucker for books and I like collecting things, I probably won't stop buying books. Like, there is no good reason as to why I have 3 copies of Pride and Prejudice- but basically I bought the 2nd one because I killed my first one completely, and I bought my 3rd one because it was cheap and hard-cover.

Mmm, I think 2014 will be a good year. It is the year of luxury, where I have every single fancy technological gadget, and it is the year where being single on Valentine's won't seem so bad, because random guys are almost-hitting on me in the food court.