Saturday Evening Weirdness

I called Biker Chick this afternoon, since I had not heard from her in awhile. I left a message, and she called me right as i was about to go into rehearsal. We chatted long enough for me to learn she had broken up with the guy in her life. So after rehearsal, I called to see if she wanted to grab a drink and talk about it. We ended up in a bar frequented by a number of actors.

And who is sitting there as I walk up, but the Classical Actress.

A little back story. I met the Classical Actress about eleven years ago, when we did a number of shows together. I have seen her every now and again over the interveneing years, but had lost touch after my divorce and subsequent move to NC.

Last fall I attended a play she was performing in, and ran into her after the show. We chatted for a brief minute, and then later ran into one another in a bar near the theatre. We hung out (among a group of people), and caught up a little. During this time it came up that I had gotten divorced.

We met for lunch later in the week, and her first question as I sat down was, "So what happened between you and (ex-wife)?" Classical Actress had known my ex-wife, and so I guess it was a logical question, but it threw me. I had long ago explained to those who knew both of us (and who cared to hear my side of the story), what had happened between us. I had put it behind me, and almost no one in my life now really knew my ex. So it was strange dredging all of that up again.

The next question concerned a mutual friend of ours, whom I had had a falling out with. CA asked what had happened there, and my response was, "I told her something she didn't want to hear." I got the sense she already knew the answer however.

These two topics of conversation had me out of sorts, and I was rather quiet through the rest of lunch.

I don't know if I said or did something (or didn't), but after that lunch, CA did not return my phone calls, and has acted very strange every time I bump into her. I don't know why, because we had once been friends, and it bothers me someone I think very highly of has put themselves at a distance that did not used to be there.

So seeing CA tonight was weird. I stopped to say hello on the way in, and said goodbye when I left, but the distance is still there. It is bothering me enough to ask about it. Biker Chick's advice is "Blow it off.", but as we all know, I am not very good at that most times.