I love the smell of the outdoors after it rains. Everything smells fresh and clean and new. You can actually smell the green in the air. My grandmother used to say that rain is good luck. Eve has been telling me that rain is good because it cleans things up.

So, I broke things off with static-cling-girl. I felt horrible doing it. But I'm glad I did it now rather than later because I was starting to collapse under the guilt of quasi-leading her on, and I was having flashbacks to the end of a past relationship -- she was acting the same way as one of my exes had acted, and I was reacting similarly to the way I reacted back then, and I know how that situation ended so I didn't want to go through the motions all over again. I guess it really is true that you learn from past relationships.

As it turns out, she had been talking to her ex-fiance anyways, and he was coming out in a few weeks to see her. So I don't feel entirely too bad about the situation. However, I probably could've handled things with her a lot better, and I do feel awful about that.

So, I'm a free agent again, and my plans for this coming Friday are broken. Now if only I can get past the whole thing of being shut down this past weekend...

(By the way, special thanks to Eve. Not only has she been working all day on my blog, she's also patiently been reassuring me each and every time I've asked her whether I've done the right thing. Eve kicks some serious ass.)