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I might be a little pathetic. I'm at the point where my boss's wife is calling people up and asking them to be my friend. I feel sad for myself in a profound way.

The result being, I have a blind lunch date next week with a woman my age, who is in the financial industry, and has an infant. She sounds really nice, and I hope she likes me so I can have a friend. Isn't that sad? It's like being one of those desperate single people that absolutely cannot stand being single, so they latch on to whomever throws them any crumb of attention as they ooze desperation. Love me! she cries. That's me. I'm friendless, I ooze desperation and I'm looking for crumbs of attention. I also finally managed to chat with my upstairs neighbor. We both seem to have the same type of schedule: when we're not working, we get the hell out of town. So, she told me her work schedule for next week and we'll try to get together Wednesday evening and go see a movie or something. We were both lamenting how sad it was going to see a movie by yourself -- and being the only one in the entire theatre. That is sad. I saw Julie & Julia a couple weeks ago, and I was the only one there. She had the same experience with Time Traveler's Wife. I guess we're the only two young women in town who go to 9pm showings of chick flicks.

Anyway, I'm a very social person and I usually make friends very easily, so this whole no-friend-thing is bewildering to me. I know I've only been here a month, but figuring out how to meet people [I actually want to spend time with] is difficult. I suspect that the majority of people my age and with my interests will be nurses over at the hospital we sue. (Like my upstairs neighbor.) My blind lunch date directed me to a local young professionals association, although she said it's mostly CPA's, but I've joined anyway. There's not really a local young lawyers association. (If there is, I think it's me and one other dude.) A friend of mine suggested Meetup.com, but the only two groups here include one dedicated to electing a Republican to Congress (FAIL) and the other is Paranormal Believers. (I might be an overly-devoted and slightly-obsessive X-Files fan, but even I'm not that nutters.) And apparently one of my law school classmates is in town working for the police in some capacity; however, he was rather obnoxious in class and is overly-devoted to wearing track suits, so I'm going to pass on giving him a call.

But I need to make friends soon. Lunch by myself sucks. Dinner by myself sucks even more. I had cereal tonight for dinner and watched the rest of Season 1 of Dexter. High fiber cereal and serial killers. Super fun. I'm thinking of getting a few dozen cats to seal the deal.

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