So...once a week or so I go to this bar I like...I have done it for a good long while and I know all the regulars and such. There is a young woman who has taken a liking to me who is there sometimes. She obviously has kind of a crush on me - and so so I on her - but she has a boyfriend and I am married, so nothing has (or likely will) come of it. Just friends...we both know whats what. Anyway...this boyfriend of hers is kind of a weird little guy...always wearing his hood up and being all mopey and aloof - he and I have not talked to each other much at all, he doesn't seem to like me. Now when his girlfriend is over talking to me he gets all huffy and has stormed out of the place a couple times. I asked her what the deal was and she said not to worry about it...it has nothing to do with me...etc. (It really does look like it has something to do with me, though)

So lately I have been having a streak of very bad luck - for lack of a better term. Lost my job...been hitting nothing but obstacles trying to find a new one...been really depressed...been sick (as has my family) and some other more personal stuff...

I have remarked to several people that it seems like someone has laid some sort of curse on me.

So...I am in said bar the other night...I see the girl and her fella...she comes over to talk to me and is a little touchy feely (had a few in her I think) and of course the dude leaves. I later mentioned something about all this to another friend - one who works there and knows these two folks pretty well - and she says (in a joking but not really sort of way): "You should watch out for him...he's a wizard". I have asked her several times since to elaborate, but she wont.

Now...I don't know if this fellow is a practitioner...rootworker...satanist...chaos mage...what - he might just be into roleplaying games and my friend really was joking. Two things I know for sure - he dislikes me and my life has been pretty lame for just about as much time as he has.


so...what do you folks think?