Being single after a long relationship is kind of a weird experience.

I guess I should enter a little background on the relationship I am out now free from. Until October of last year, I had been in my very first real relationship. We had been dating a year at that point, 10 months of which we spent living together. I could go off on what an awful idea that was, but for now I'm going to focus on the events that have occurred since the break up, and less on the relationship itself.

Being single after a mildly abusive relationship that destroys your self-esteem is exciting... in that you have brief interest in several people before completely abandoning them. Can't say I didn't warn anyone, but I'm still a bitch. Of course, not at all rivaling the hedonistic ways of Chris, I can say there have been quite a few folks whose text messages I have stopped responding to in the last 6 months. I don't mean to be rude, but my lack of enthusiasm outweighs my politeness when it comes to texting.

Sorry guys. It's hard to keep my attention.

Although I recently started seeing someone whose affections haven't repulsed me (yes, this is an improvement) I'm still wary of the "relationship" thing. I'm fairly sure that I want to spend the summer single. Not for any pervy reasons, I'm just a huge stress-case when I'm in a relationship.

How do you late 20's-early 30's folks do it? The whole dating thing?
In television shows, men and women go on dates with several people in the same time period. And they all seem okay with this until things are officially monogamous.
You try to do that with folks in their early 20's and someone is bound to get offended and crazy jealous. That just isn't heard of these days. It's like if you go on one date with someone and are still somewhat interested, you have to see it through to the end before looking around more.

Now, I'm not saying I want to date around. I really don't have the patience for more than one person at the same time. I just thought it was sort of interesting.
I think that people my age are far too obsessed with falling in love. I don't want to fall in love again. All that mushy crap disgusts me anyway.


As a side note, though...
If I find someone who will be my player 2 in Altered Beast and play til we beat the damn thing, I will have found the person to spend my life with.

So, I guess seeing as this is my first post, it should be introductory in some way.

Hi. My name is Allison, and (insert Alcoholics Anonymous joke, right?) I am a 20 year old who recently moved back into her folks' house in Mount Vernon, Washington, after living in California for three years. I sell shoes for a living. I'm going to community college to get my transfer degree, with dreams of double majoring in Marine Bio and Philosophy at UCLA on the far horizon.

I was inspired by Chris Reinhard to start blogging. Jury's out on whether I'll say anything interesting though!

That's all for now!