Tiger Mother

So, this isn't the drunk blog that I hinted at on Twitter yesterday; I'm actually at work and therefore not drunk. (Although that hasn't necessarily been a given in the past.) But I was too exhausted last night once I finally got home, so... here you are. I'm actually writing this while on hold with American Airlines, which has extraordinarily pleasant hold music. Like, I would illegally download it and listen to it all the time. But I digress. Some of my friends in NC have had a running joke for some time that my life is a series of Things That Only Happen To Me. This is by far the apex of said stories.

So, I recently (about 3 weeks ago now) met and started spending a lot of time with a group of really awesome people. A college friend moved here recently and had spoken with a couple of them about a sublet (it fell through) and they subsequently invited her to a birthday party. She asked me if I was doing anything that night, I wasn't, so off we went. They ended up being Super Cool and now I'm going out to Queens - about a 45-minute train ride away! - roughly 2 times a week for things like birthdays, trivia, etc. That first night, I hit it off with the birthday boy. Nothing major, but we had an awesome conversation and he's totally my type (floppy brown hair, thick-framed glasses, skinny). Saw him again at trivia night a few days later, and I could tell he was sparkin' on me too. Saw him again the next weekend at a housewarming party, and we ended up going back to his place. Standard girl meets boy story, right?

WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. To fill in a little background... there is a girl in the group who is sort of the elected "den mother," if you will (we'll just call her DM), and she has been dating her bf (DM's BF) for a couple years now. They live together.

To add a little clarification for the next few paragraphs, here's a calendar of recent events in Queens:

Friday May 26 - met everyone
Tuesday May 31 - trivia (mutual sparkage)
Wednesday June 1 - dinner with DM's BF
Friday June 3 - housewarming party, hooked up with cute guy
Wednesday June 8 - beer garden
Saturday June 11 - housewarming party, (everything goes wrong)
Tuesday June 14 - trivia, still oblivious
Wednesday June 15- shit hits the fan
Friday June 17 - today