"I want you to stay up and talk on the phone with me until I go to sleep!"

No. Not, "sure, I guess." Not, "I'll think about it." Just plain no.

So I was complaining a few days/weeks ago about spending the holidays alone. About how it's such a pain in the a** and I ******** hate it. This is still true. I still want to find someone. But not the person who uttered the above a few hours ago.

Said person is someone I met on X-Box Live a few months ago. We talked, we flirted, we fought, I stopped talking to her for a month. Then I made the stupid mistake of talking to her again. And she's gotten worse. For the last few days I've been able to ignore it, to let it slide, but she's starting to go too far. She's been wanting me to stay up and talk to her until she fell asleep. Then when she dozed off and I hung up, she called back and said she wanted us to fall asleep together.

Now, something about this doesn't add up. Probably the part where this is taking place at 1am... when I'm at work. I generally don't sleep at work, or at least I don't advertise that I do. Nonetheless, she wanted us to fall asleep together. Creepy. Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I value my sleep quite a bit in that, if I'm talking to someone, and I want to go to bed and they're not tired yet, I'll more than likely say the hell with them and go on to bed. Especially with my work schedule lately. Granted, it's getting better since I ditched one of my jobs, but still. Right after a 12-hour work shift, I'm going to want to do one of two things: go home and go to bed, or go home, play Battlefield, then go to bed. Either way, I'm going the hell to bed. I'm not gonna pester you to stay up til I get tired, I'm not gonna beg and plead with you to stay on the phone until I go to sleep, or demand we fall asleep on the phone together. It's stupid, it's annoying, and during the daytime, it burns minutes like there's no tomorrow.

So no, I'm not gonna stay on the phone with you till you fall asleep. If you're tired, I'm going to tell you to get your a** in bed, get off the damn phone, and go the ******** to sleep.

Speaking of sleep, a nap sounds good about now.