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KANSAS, OK Dan
Simmons has announced that he really doesn’t care about his “really great friendship”
with Cara Schlink—and he’s totally prepared and willing to ruin that
friendship.
Simmons, who met Schlink last fall in Algebra class, has been
madly in love with her ever since, but she still has no clue. None whatsoever. The two
of them became good friends—contrary to Simmons’ wishes for something more—right around
the time that they worked together in a small group in class. But, Simmons has decided,
he has more friends than he can handle.
Last night, as the two of them
were eating dinner together at the burger place in the mall’s food court, Simmons decided
that the mood and the ambience were just right—so he somewhat nervously asked Schlink if
she’d accompany him to his grandparents’ wedding anniversary celebration next
weekend.
“Um,” Schlink sighed, “Like, as your date?”
“Uh, yeah,” Simmons responded.
“Dan, I don’t think that’s
a good idea,” said Schlink. “I mean, you’re totally my best guy friend, and I don’t want
to ruin that. And I know that as soon as we go out on a date, that would totally
complicate stuff, and…I just don’t think it would be a good idea. ‘Cuz if something
would happen and we’d break up, then we’d lose this really great
friendship.”
Simmons tried to explain to Schlink that he had thought it
all through—and that it was quite all right with him. Schlink, however, was quite
convinced of her views, and she refused to listen to Simmons’ protests.
“She wants to be friends,” Simmons told his best friend, Steve,
after the event. “I’ve got more friends than one guy needs. What I don’t have is
a girlfriend. That’s what I need. So I really don’t care if I lose a friend. In
fact, I am totally prepared to destroy a perfectly good friendship. I’ve got a few to
spare.”
Schlink, however, is unlikely to change her mind. Because while
she believes that Simmons is a really nice guy—and a great friend—she also thinks that he
has a bad haircut and horrible taste in clothes. Besides, as she recently revealed to
her roommate, Renee, if she were to express any interest whatsoever in Simmons, his
friend, Steve, might not ask her out.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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