Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.

Date #16: Friday, 10 April
Kendall, 27, soon-to-be Westminster grad and printing expert

Another wedding story: (I've been around a long time, so I have a few...) About 3 years ago, one of my best friends, Candice, met her sweetheart and planned a fabulous wedding. He had four groomsmen, she had four bridesmaids... and like something from "Picture Perfect", the happy couple noticed as they drove into the sunset that there were two of them that took a liking to each other.

Kendall and I have great chemistry. But even in our second meeting, it was evident that we are complete and total opposites. And I mean in Every. Single. Way. And though the phrase "opposites attract" may be true, it's also not a good formula for a relationship. So we never had one. Just a lot of fun flirting and hanging out.

Well, I'd planned to go out with him on this night, but got sick -- I'm sure it was divine intervention (which he doesn't believe in)! But by nightfall, I was feeling better, and I discovered that I'd previously purchased tickets to a comedy show in Provo. Well, I can't lose my ten bucks! And clearly, I can't find anyone else available on this particular night! So I called and cancelled my cancellation with Kendall.

So we went. I picked him up and we rushed down to the show... which just happened to be on the BYU Campus. (Mind you, he's not a member of my faith, or anyone else's for that matter - one of our many differences...) The group performing was called 'Divine Comedy'. Oh dear... The opening skit was about a strange LDS YSA phenomenon called Ward Prayer. *rolls eyes* Yeah... the rest of the ridiculously long performance, "Best of Divine Comedy", went from there to jokes about the BYU Honor Code, dating 'premies' (pre-mission aged boys, not boys who were born too early), and the like. It was awful. Mostly because I was sitting next to the only guy with facial hair. I mean, I like facial hair, but... "one of these things is not like the other!" And I'm pretty sure the "Best of..." could've fit into 15 minutes, instead of 130. Yikes.

We ran off campus as fast as we could -- maybe it's the age difference, or my life experience, but even I felt like we'd been abducted to another planet! -- and I took him back home to his inebriated roommates. I like those guys; they're all really nice and fun. And I like Kendall for all the fun that we have and how comfortable I am with him. But even if we're like those opposite magnets that are drawn to each other inexplicably, when it comes to anything more, I have to flip myself over and move away.