sometimes, i just want to watch football ...

huh. this dating thing is hard sometimes. at least -- we're not normal, by any means.

for example, he wants to talk about national and world issues -- all the time. and not just talk - argue. discuss. talk about all the different sides. fight for the poor, the oppressed, the disadvantaged. what's wrong with the world, head-in-the-clouds dreaming of changing the world, etc. how do things make people FEEL.

and uh ... i want to watch football. talk about football. play football.

it's like men mars, women venus - reversed. i realized why i was getting so frustrated at the end of this whole conversation last night. other than the fact that i'm not naturally interested in debate, current events, or intangible idealism. i mean, i'm learning to be supportive and do some research and suck it up and talk about all this stuff purely for the sake of him liking it - and i'm not opposed to the issues themselves - but i realized when i woke up this morning ... it's draining. at the end of a day, i want to relax, not get more tense. i consider quality time to not include arguing, unless said arguing is about things that directly concern us. (like putting the toilet seat down, for example).

i just don't have the emotional capacity, at the end of a long day - to be heatedly debating over the problems of our nation, and alllllll the different opinions people have about it. he, on the other hand, finds these to be energizing ... except when he gets offended or frustrated in which case i'm thinking...why are we wasting a perfectly good fight over THIS?

like seriously ... espn. so simple. so entertaining. so easy. granted, i'm on a business trip right now so the phone thing made it rather convenient to have eyes on the ball game and ears on the phone

i'm not sure what's weirder ... the fact that i'm being the dude, or that he's not.