Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Apparently in "the next month or so" she's moving house to a place 
>>> many hours' drive from here.
>>
>>   I have never understood why people are so obsessed with moving.
>> Sometimes it feels that not a month goes by without a friend or someone
>> I know moving. I know some people who have moved at least 4 times in
>> one single year!
>>
>>   I have long ago stopped keeping track of where everyone I know lives
>> because it's just impossible. I would need a database.
> 
> Apparently she moves house every 2 years. She moves into a place, 
> renovates it, moves out and rents the old place out. She's hoping that 
> by the time she's old she'll have a huge string of properties bringing 
> in cash.
> 
> So not content with working for an F1 racing team and travelling all 
> over the world at random moments and completing her PhD, she's also a 
> property developer in her spare time. (Spare...time...?!)
> 

You do like F1 racing - right???

> Seriously doubting there's any *room* in this girls life for a 
> relationship...
> 

you would be surprised

Don't give up
But don't put all hope in it.

You can make great friends with someone who you see only a couple of 
times a month.  Friendships like that have a way of taking off sometimes.

It just might give you something to do on weekends ;-0




Tom

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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> 
> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we will 
> ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.

Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was 
thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I 
would be highly offended by this.

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:52:18 -0400, Tom Austin wrote:

> You can make great friends with someone who you see only a couple of
> times a month.  Friendships like that have a way of taking off
> sometimes.

This is very true.  I'm a firm believer that if you don't start as 
friends, anything more is doomed...

Jim

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>>Apparently in "the next month or so" she's moving house to a 
>>place many hours' drive from here.
> 
> 
>   I have never understood why people are so obsessed with moving.
> Sometimes it feels that not a month goes by without a friend or someone
> I know moving. I know some people who have moved at least 4 times in
> one single year!

Well, when the rent's due and you can't pay it...

Regards,
John

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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> andrel wrote:
>
>>> In all the looking I've done, I have yet to find a single job where I 
>>> can even say "hey, I could probably do that job". Never mind one where 
>>> I'd *want* to do that...
>
>> Do I need to remind you that you very much restricted yourself 
>> geographically?
>
> One of the reasons for getting a new job is so I can spend less time 
> driving there and back. There's enough big companies in this city; surely 
> one of them would like some programmers...?

    Ok, go and knock on *ALL* of their doors and ask to see the personnel 
manager's - if they can't see you, just ask the receptionist if there are 
any vacancies available. If there aren't, ask to be put on 'the list' and 
give them your details, or leave your resume with them.

    If you don't do that one simple thing, you will never know what's 
'actually' out there. You may be the answer to a problem that they never 
realised they had, or you may be the person that somehow would boost their 
sales (efficiency in the comp. dept. for example, speeding the whole process 
up > creating more sales). You just don't know until you tell them what you 
can do.

       Just do it, you've got nothing to lose and everything to gain. And, 
if you're fortunate enough that someone spots the potential in you and 
offers you a place, (it happens!) just go for it regardless of what 
wages/salary you may get. You'll save a stack on petrol anyway.

      You have ALSO got to think that you are probably 5 to 10 times 
*better* than some dude that's been crap in his/her position for a couple of 
years - it may be the case that he/she loses their job for you, but so what? 
It's a do-or-die world out there, go and do the 'killing'.   >:)

       ~Steve~


>
> -- 
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/

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"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>>> Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>>
>> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we will 
>> ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.
>
> Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was 
> thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I would 
> be highly offended by this.

    Totally agree with this. You get to know people by 'having' friends 
Andrew.

      ~Steve~

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John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >   I have never understood why people are so obsessed with moving.
> > Sometimes it feels that not a month goes by without a friend or someone
> > I know moving. I know some people who have moved at least 4 times in
> > one single year!

> Well, when the rent's due and you can't pay it...

  The solution is to spend the rent money in moving your stuff to
another place?

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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andrel wrote:

>> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we 
>> will ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.
> 
> Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was 
> thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I 
> would be highly offended by this.

What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will 
now never be is "insulting"?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:12:54 +0200, Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will  
> now never be is "insulting"?


What is insulting is that you seem to consider friendship with her to be a  
failure. How is friendship not "a beautiful relationship"?



-- 
FE

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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> andrel wrote:
>
> >> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we
> >> will ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.
> >
> > Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was
> > thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I
> > would be highly offended by this.
>
> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will
> now never be is "insulting"?

No, the fact that possibly making a new friend makes you very sad.

I dunno about you, but I don't have so many friends that pass up a
friendship that virtually dropped in my lap.

How often do you complain that you don't know anyone who like you. Now
you've got a good chance to change that and, it appears, you're not really
interested.

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