I really don't like this one...

Funny, I haven't had to deal a whole lot with "friend" drama over the past few years. There's been a rough spot or two at times with a couple of them, but in general if they're worth it, we get together, have lunch or dinner and all is forgiven/forgotten and ya move on. Ya know...adult shit! Weird thing goin on right now with my tennis coach though. There was about a 2 week span in January I didn't return any of his phone calls, didn't set up lessons with him, pretty much I was avoiding him. Frankly, I was feeling a bit suffocated by him. Ya know we'd hang out on the side sometimes...cuz ya know...I'm laid off, he has time to kill during lunch, but at times he can just call too much and wanna hang out too much. It was pretty bad during that 2 week span because I wasn't sleeping, so I was sleeping in super late. His phone calls were in the morning and I wanted to sleep in so my phone was in silent mode, and at one point, he banged on my condo door at 11am until I woke up so we could grab lunch. On top of that, I never told him how much it was startin to piss me off all for the silly reason that I've seen how much drama he's had with other folks in the past, and I try to just avoid any confrontation with him all together. Irony of ironies, because that has led to the current situation where he doesn't call at all, and during my most recent lesson this week, acts like he barely knows me, focusing solely on the tennis. Oh and then my last phone conversation with him a few weeks back had him telling me he wasn't gonna call anymore because I'm a flake... I guess. I mean i feel bad that I didn't return his calls, but this passive agressive stuff is reminding me a lot of my old boss, and seems kinda beneath a 37 y/o. Jeebus, to be friends you have to always be on call??? I guess some folks need more attention. In any case, I'm gonna try to talk to him next week to see if we can be grown ups about this and move on because I can't have friends I can't be honest with and I can't do lessons in this kind of environment.

My roommate seems to think that he'll be reasonable, yet I dunno. Maybe I'm just being my overly rational self, but I don't hold out a lot of hope. Just the vibe I get from the guy, he seems to me...unforgiving. But I guess we shall see.

In the meantime, I'm off to san francisco this weekend for some good ole drunken fun with the SD/LA crew...can't wait!