Everyone remember Emma ...?

First, just wanted to mention that, on the subject of kindness, I was all grumpy towards my boss yesterday because he asked me to work late to finish an application so that he could review it before leaving the country. He offered to get me some dinner, but I had other plans, so made some off-hand comment about how I never turn down sweets and got back to work. But, at the end of the evening, he returned to the office with a small tray of Egyptian donut-like thingies, which were VERY good, and after the three of us still at the office ate some, he sent the rest home with me ... with a HUGE serving tray packed with every kind of sweet imaginable! He said he got me a selection of sweets from across the entire Arab region, so that I would have a good sampling. PEOPLE HERE ARE RIDICULOUSLY GENEROUS!!!

Anywho, for those of you who don't understand the post title, allow me to explain. Emma is a girl who was in my class last year ... the first day of Civil Procedure, she made some rude comment to me, probably completely on accident, and then followed it up with a couple of socially-inept comments in the next couple of weeks. In return, I hated her WITH A PASSION, even with no fuel for the fire, for most of the school year. It became a running joke, where friends would look at me for my reaction whenever she said something idiotic (which, in my opinion, was often), and my hatred actually infected a couple of people who otherwise would have been completely uninterested in the girl. Of course, I eventually got bored, and then started treating her just like every other person I don't much care about either way ...

The point: I've come to the realization that OSMAN IS MY EMMA! I developed this dislike for him the first day I met him, and it's continued since, even though he hasn't really done anything to provoke me at all. I mean, he's a nice man, and wouldn't like to think that anyone doesn't like him. He's never been anything but polite to me, or anything but polite to anyone else in front of me, and yet I still just can't stand the guy!

I kind of fear he has some sort of social problem ... he just doesn't seem to put ANYONE at ease. I've discussed him with most of my coworkers, and EVERYONE has the same reaction. He's hit on every woman that works here, which is clearly some of it, but the fact is, he's just a silly, inept nerdy guy who desperately needs to find a woman and so tries. I mean, we shouldn't hate a guy just for having the balls to go for it, right?

And really, I don't think we do. He just happens to be one of those people that rubs others the wrong way. I just find it fascinating that, even halfway around the world, I can find someone to irrationally dislike. :) However, I rest easy in the fact that others irrationally dislike the boy as well. Come to think of it, though, we have a majority - it might have become infinitely more rational ...