HONESTY and DISAPPOINTMENT
So I got the email that I was anxious about getting. BOY was it a disappointment! Life is about timing and BOY has mine always been bad. Turns out this guy D was introduced to a friend of a friend this past weekend. I think that says a lot right there. =\ I really appreciated his honesty but it's still disappointing

I can definitely say that my life isn't over but what's behind my door has changed. Personally, I feel like my luck when it comes to timing has NEVER been good. The following are some examples of how time could have changed my life:

• TA (identity has been protected because we're actually friends!): He moved away right at the beginning of everything. I was starting to really feel something there but at the same time, I had been struggling with a crush that had developed before that. TIMING!! I learned a lot from him but I wish things could have been different.
• Giang: I've always felt like he and I were a timing issue. What if he and I had actually met AFTER college? What if he had had more time to "mature" (like guys do that!) and been a more independent thinker from his friends? Would things have been different?
  
• Doug: When I first met him, I was the "typical, party college girl" (who had JUST turned 21) and he was a busy professional. A year later when we became reaquainted with each other, I was more mature and calming down and he was back to "recapturing his youth" (meaning he was partying and drinking like a college kid!)
• Dave G: OMG timing! Let's see. . .first, I had graduated and was no longer in Austin. That sucked but I clocked a lot of driving miles during last summer because of him. Of course the other thing is that I met him four years earlier or some unknown amount of time later, he would also be single. I'm glad that we're still friends though. He's an amazing guy and tons of fun. No regrets regardless with him!
• WH (protecting the innocent again): Let's say timing and life does make a difference. When you're busy, you're busy. Trying to coordinate time to hang out is hard sometimes. No biggie. I just don't like games.

So Father Time has never been my friend. It's okay. I'm still young. I'm only approaching my 24th bday with many more years to go! I've got time to find more inopportune moments with the opposite sex. Like I said, the door of opportunity is still there, it's just that I don't know what it holds for me now.