From: hagop@edison.seas.ucla.edu (Hagop D. Janoyan)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Books & MY New Year's
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:25:04 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


Hello everyone,

I had asked in this newgroup (a long time ago) about suggestions for 
good books to read, and I just wanted to thank everyone for all the 
great titles/authors.  I received tons of responses, both through this 
newsgroup and e-mail.  It was nice going back to read Camus, since he 
was the one person I had tried to avoid all throughout high school!  
Reading "The Bell Jar" was also very, uh, enlightening!  The "biographical 
note" at the end mentions that Plath had started working on another novel.
What ever became of that?

Anyways, since everyone is documenting their exciting adventures during 
the New Years Eve Parties, I thought I'd write about mine:

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Me and my best friend, Joe, were invited to this big party thrown by a 
(distant) friend from work (Alan).  We didn't have any dates, but we were 
told that there will be plenty of "eligible" girls at the party.  So, me 
and Joe get all dressed up and drive down to this party, which is in this 
huge house on the top of a hill facing the whole Los Angeles valley.

After an hours drive up the hill, we get to this house (which has the most 
beautiful view of Downtown LA I've ever seen).  Immediately, we see plenty 
of fine looking women, all dressed to kill.  For a while, it's only me and 
Joe conversing at a corner of the room, since we didn't recognize anyone 
there (there must have been almost 100 people there).  Then, this gordeous 
girl comes towards us, smiling.  My hopes are completely killed when it
turns out this girl was approaching for Joe.  It turns out they knew each 
other from high school (small world).  They strike up a conversation, and 
feeling completely left out, I leave them two alone.  I didn't see either 
of them again for the night.

I'm now all alone, just busying myself at the bar.  There was still a 
couple of hours left before New Years, so I still had hopes that the night
could take a turn for the better.

Sure enough, it did!

There was this other girl there who seemed to be as bored as myself, and 
she too was alone, just standing there looking around.  Somehow, me and 
Dana (this girl) managed to strike up a conversation.  I still can't 
remember if it was me or Dana that initiated the conversation.  In any 
case, there were immediate sparks, both physically and socially.  She was 
a gordeous blonde wearing a dress that showed plenty of cleavage.  I was 
just wondering to myself that there must be something horribly wrong with 
Dana, or else she would have been with someone and she certainly would not 
have been interested in me.  As much as I tried, I couldn't find one flaw.
She was intelligent, witty, and very fun to talk to.  It turned out she was 
a Computer Science major, just like myself. 

We talked, and talked some more.  We go and sit on the couch.  Our hands 
are all over each others by now, but we still continued our discussions as
if nothing was happening.  Finally, the New Years countdown begins.  She 
faces towards me and pushes in for one of the longest, most passionate 
kisses I've ever had!

The night was coming to an end, and there were only a couple of people 
left in the house.  Not finding Joe anywhere (I assume he went with that 
girl), I offer Dana a ride home.  We reach her home, and I'm dissapointed
that she doesn't ask me in.  She says her parents are in the house, and 
she would feel uncomfortable, etc.  I walk her to the door, and we again 
embrace each other and she whispers in my ear, "Thanks for the most 
beautiful night!"  I leave her there, and drive home in a very emotional 
high.  

I've been seeing Dana every day since.  The great part is that she is 
going to school within driving distance from me, so I'll still be able 
to see her after the vacation is over!  

I've never met anyone like Dana, and we seem to be a match made in heaven!

The morale of the story is, you will find someone special that will give 
you a whole new outlook on life; it might not happen today, it might not 
happen tomorrow, but it WILL happen, I promise!

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And then, the next morning, I woke up...it turns out, the whole story 
above was just a very wierd, very life-like dream.

I know, bad attempt at a story...I just had to write something after 
reading all those other stories about how great people's New Years Eve 
experience was this year.

The truth is, I had one of my most dull New Years Eve experience this year.
It wasn't exactly depressing, just dull.  If I had stayed home and not done 
anything, then things might not have been that bad.  Instead, I went to this 
Red Cross charity thing with two friends, and the whole thing was dull, 
dull, dull.  

Also, I have never fallen in love and never met anyone like Dana.  In fact,
you can tell at how unexperienced I am with falling in love by the 
unconvincing, unbelievable story I tried to make up above.  I don't 
really mind though, since that is just something I have learned to accept
about my life.  Some people were made to fall in love, and some weren't; 
just as some peole were made to be great athletes, and some weren't.

I also don't believe in the "you will eventually find someone special 
someday," which I've noticed mentioned many times in this newsgroup.  
I think it's pure bullshit.

Sorry for making this so long...sorry for writing this at all.  I'm 
wondering now if I should even send this article, or just delete it.

-- 
Hagop Janoyan
hagop@seas.ucla.edu