The Devil Made Me Do It

A recent story line on The Devil's Panties has involved Jennie being single after years of having a boyfriend. Some of the comics have resonated with me rather a lot. The arc started with Jennie breaking up with Will and foreshadowed a bit with the comic on her sister breaking up. Only I was the dump-ee rather than the dump-er. I sympathized a lot with the sentiment of having no idea how to date and annoyance at the expense.

When I was newly single and trying to put a positive spin on my feelings this comic would have been appropriate for me. The thing is that I've sort of degenerated into a slothful bachelorhood after misadventures similar to this. And I had my fair share of being too specific when I was more of geek. In that respect I think being with Richard may have made me a better person to date, I'm not so focused on being a geek anymore that I think it a requirement that my boyfriend love reading fantasy novels. But I'm lonely and I don't think I have as many friends as Jennie. One of the ways that fandom was really bad for me (in addition to the good it did for me) was that I made a lot of friends two decades older than me who are even less available for socializing than people my age. And I'm over 30 now. I think I'm past my sell by date.

Still at least I know, more or less, what makes me happy at home. I've just got to keep working at pushing back the tide of bachelor mess. And the theme song for this week will be The Kink's "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman". Nine stone weakling unhappy with what I see.