stretched...

OK, well, a lot of time has passed and nothing has happened. We had lunch one more time, I asked her to come and listen to some free sitar music at the South Bank which she couldn't do due to a parents' evening, but her response "maybe another time" was not too encouraging. We still have the arrangement to go and see the Bollywood movie but she doesn't seem to be doing much about organising it. She has brought me in Gujarati food from home a couple of times though, which was lovely.

So either she was interested and has lost interest, or she's got fed up waiting for me to make a move, or she's realised my interest is more than friendly and is backing off. Not brilliant choices really.

In addition, I've had to move desks and sit opposite her for reasons we won't go into here, which is nice in some ways but perhaps familiarity breeds contempt. Hmmnn. Also, Bob the Builder has left our organisation - she and I both attended his leaving do, people in the office were kind of dropping hints about him and her so maybe my suspicions were correct - and it looks like the knowledge was a little commoner than I supposed. She seemed to be on very friendly terms with some of the operatives as well. I'm actually jealous - how about that?

Today she left for the day at lunchtime, announcing she'd tell me all about it tomorrow. I await the news with interest. Wednesdays is her self-day of course. I've been wondering whether to invite her to do something afternoony for weeks - looks as though someone may hae beaten me to it.

Damn, this is not good. I need to make something happen, but not at the risk of utterly cacking up our friendship. I'm helping her fill in another job application anyway, we'll see how that goes. Hopefully also the next blog entry will have a bit more flair...