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bachelordom

24 Jun 2007

One of my favorite exchanges from this weekend:

Paul: (looking around my apartment for the first time) … dude, how do you expect to get laid in this place?
Me: Well … I guess I don’t, really..
Paul: … … that was a rhetorical question.

One of the first things I did after The Breakup was to reclaim the apartment as my own by at least re-arranging and purging it of various things (it was that or move, and moving is the devil). One thing that became abundantly clear this weekend is that I desperately need to reconfigure it as more of a bachelor pad. Well, more generally, just as a place at which I can actually entertain. Turns out tapwater and beefjerky are not the most alluring refreshments to offer guests at your apartment. Who knew?

Comments

Turner — June 25, 2007 at 04:32 · reply

Heh. I had much the same problem when lyricagent and I stopped keeping house together; I’m still in the process of rearranging / redecorating / rewhatnot.

Ginger — June 25, 2007 at 13:40 · reply

Yeah, but you’ve got great coffee. (Non-expired creamer would add to your allure, though.) hee! ;)

Emily — June 25, 2007 at 15:41 · reply

mmmm…tap water…. Just say no to beef jerky dude. Seriously.

cwage — June 25, 2007 at 15:43 · reply

It’s home-made!!

Beer, Free as In — June 25, 2007 at 15:59 · reply

Dude. You have women giving you friendly advice, under a post talking about ‘how … to get laid’.

Listen up!

lcreekmo — June 25, 2007 at 16:59 · reply

This is a very funny post. I will say, I suspect a certain type of woman is attracted to a man with spartan living quarters, but I believe they’re also the kind who think, I could really make a mark around here.

So you might want to inject a bit more personality into things. And perhaps buy some fresh fruit. You’ll get scurvy if all you’re eating is beef jerky.

Emily — June 25, 2007 at 18:45 · reply

mmmm…scurvy…

Yah, may need to lay off the beef jerky. Even if it is ‘homemade’.

Lindsey — June 25, 2007 at 22:23 · reply

I don’t know if you’ve got anything living around your place (plantwise, not necessarily petwise), but if not, I’d get something growing quick. I went over to a dude’s house and saw that the only green thing anywhere (including in the yard) was a plastic ficus tree in the living room, and it instantly creeped me out a little.

Greg — June 27, 2007 at 03:44 · reply

I’ll help you with your place… its bad when Paul calls you out.

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