Well…. Things have been so much better between me and Odie these last few days. I guess we’re just ignoring our problems and trying to be as nice as possible to each other - wonder how long that will last. we’re not having sex - not even the slightest make-out. Which is more than fine with me but I know with him he is getting slightly annoyed, and at some point may get further than slightly…. Anyway, yesterday I came home to find he had gone over to his friend’s house to play D&D, and was planning to stay there until about 3am at least. This kind of annoyed me sine I had gone out of my way to get him painkillers for his back ache and vegetarian food since we have nothing to eat. OF COURSE I want him to have a life so I shut up. But I decided I would do something I haven’t done for a long time, in order not to annoy him, which is go to an art exhibit with my friend, Celery.
Now, Celery is my ex-roommate’s boyfriend’s best friend. He is a healthy, coarse, and not very sweet guy, that’s why he gets this name. I guess he’s the opposite of Odie in almost everything. Where Odie is always nice to people and sometimes too saccarine-friendly to a point they want to puke, Celery is reserved, gives of an air of snobbishness, and many people think he’s "stuck up" and "evil". I think it’s true that he is a bit evil, which is also he very opposite of Odie, who I have never seen hurt anyone intentionally. (I have never seen Celery commit murder or anything either, but he tends not to be nice to girls who like him, and he is more sarcastic and insensitive in his remarks. When you talk about your grandparents he immediately asks about the will. Things like that). Do I also have to say that Celery works at a very well-paying computer programming job, is very ambitious, does sports all day and has a great body? Or was it implied?
For a while I’ve had the feeling that Celery is looking at me thinking "the next time I’ll get dumped I’ll go to her looking for consolation, and who knows, maybe something will come out of it." I don’t think he really has a crush on me or anything, but I believe he’s been checking me out, assessing me. I’ve kind of been doing the same to him. But I would never, EVER want to exchange Odie for him. I’ll take the good-hearted feminist any day. (Did I mention Celery has some very weird opinions on women? No really chauvinistic, but weird.) BUT, Odie doesn’t know that. He just knows that I’ve been spending some time lately with a rather good looking guy, who does all the things Odie doesn’t do (like take me on a motorcycle to openings of art shows and other interesting, "cultural" things. That have to do with the REAL world and not D&D!). I wonder what I’d say if Odie decided to spend time with a girl who only did the things I don’t do… L.
So I’ve been trying to go out with Celery only when Odie is in Jerusalem. But yesterday since Odie had left me high and dry at home, I decided to go to this art show anyway.
It was pretty weird. I don’t know what openings of art shows look like in other countries, but I get the feeling there is a little more regard for art in other places… The gallery was housed in this tiny, crumbling building, under an ugly parking lot (I know, all parking lots are ugly, but this one was worse). The stairway looked like it would lead to a homeless shelter, and the door looked like the door of a bomb shelter. But I guess it was really a shelter for the artists to hide their shame at the amount of people who showed up - aside from us there were: another couple that just came to watch, the owner of the gallery, an artist who had nothing to do with the show, and about 30 people the artists had brought with them, like mothers, brothers, cousins and all their kids. I know that they usually serve some kind of food and maybe wine in openings, but since these people, I guess, were Muslims, they just had soft drinks and baklava, which made the whole thing look like a Muslim Bar-Mitzva. (The baklava was really great, too! Better than anything I’ve eaten in any Bar-Mitzva. I had 3 small pieces.)
After sizing up the situation and understanding that we didn’t fit at all, we went to look at the exhibit itself. (to be continued...)
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