I am settling in well. My roommate and I get along. She’s showing me around town and introducing me to people. We’re switching off cooking dinner, which is good. (She takes Mondays, because I leave my house at 6AM and get to hers around 6:30 PM, so I am dog tired.)

She has a cat. Named Kat. Kat is all white and looks quite a bit like Orion, especially from the side, and sounds like him as well.

She also has a creepy neighbor. He moved in across the street within the past month. When I came home after my first day on the new job, she was sitting on the curb talking to him. Note: he has a son who is 4 years younger than she is, and he was not a teen dad or anything.

That Wednesday, he came over and knocked on our door. He handed her a note saying how much he’d enjoyed talking to her and that he’d like to take her out to dinner. He included his phone number. This was written on the back of an ATM receipt from two days earlier, which is why I can tell you that he had $96 in his checking account.

Which, hey, we’ve all been there. But when you are a guy trying to court someone 20 years younger than you are, that’s probably not the information you want to be giving out right away.

She just let it go. She’s not interested. (She wasn’t before we realized about the ATM receipt. That just made it funnier.) She came home to another note on the door that Monday. She again has not responded and is hoping he’ll drop it.

I am hoping he says something to me.