It's Valentine's Day, and while I could rant about the commercialism of it all and boycott the day all together, I'm not going to. Fact is, I kind of enjoy it. For more than four years Jordan and I were in a long-distance relationship, and neither of us had the disposable income to commute back and forth between Ottawa and Toronto on a regular basis. This meant we missed many holidays together — Thanksgiving, Easter, birthdays among them.
However, Valentine's Day was different. Through no prior arrangement ourselves, we always managed to spend the day together, usually because at least one of our univeristy Reading Weeks seemed to coincide with it. One year, while I was in my third-year radio class, Jordan was at my house in Ottawa cooking me a lobster dinner. Sure, we probably would have done that even if it wasn't Valentine's Day, but that's beside the point.
This year, Jordan had to work. He was just promoted to Chef at the bistro he works at, so the hours are long. The upside of that is a late dinner at the bistro once all the diners leave. It's 10:06 PM right now, so I'm remarkably hungry and hoping for his phone call any minute.
I guess my point is that I know so many people that go out of their way to rant about the reasons they don't celebrate Valentine's Day, and really, my thoughts are: Why not celebrate? Sure, it's trendy to say "Fuck it. I'm boycotting this holiday that was created by the card companies ..." and that's just fine! But while you're doing that, I'm off to have a late-night dinner with the guy I love!
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