Stalk it, good.

I think I wrote on stalking some time ago and compared it with courting. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. An acquaintance chatted with me the other evening about some of his unfortunate experiences and of being accused of being a stalker. I find it interesting how so often people (generally women) don't have the training necessary to tell someone that they are not interested. That's unfortunate enough but the worse part is that they will oft go and tell their friends that they are being stalked when in fact, they have never verbally indicated that they do not wish the attentions being shown to them. Some people (both men and women) seem to believe that the world around them is completely aware of their feelings, wants and needs without them ever having to say a word and that when someone acts without taking those unspoken desires into account, they are rude, selfish, unfeeling or, in this case, a stalker.

Of course, this fellow actually could be a stalker. After all, he has allowed his emotions to taint his judgment. Flowers and attempting to chat with this girl after two years of email back and forth (with no mention of him bothering her) is quite possibly the worst case of stalking I've ever seen. :p

In other news, someone recently (April 7th, 2004) made me an offer to help make a dream come true. It's still in the preliminary stages and there's a bit of paperwork to examine, design and agree upon, but I'm looking forward to the possibilities.

I wonder if it's light enough to go outside and practice some T'ai Chi.