ARGH. Speaking of OKCupid--girl from yesterday responded to my email--I had emailed after saying sorry if i kind of ran off, I was getting a migraine and went home and crashed, but I'd be up for a rematch, or I can just say hi next time I see you at (event we established we both attend, every few weeks)
Her response was "wait, you mean you kicked my ass at bananagrams with a migraine coming on? I may need some time before a rematch. :) And i wouldn't miss the (pride version of event in two weeks) for the world, so I'll see you then!"
...I'm GUESSING that means "no thanks, but you don't have to pretend to avoid me in the future"? Argh.
I did notice the other week, there was this ONE long eyebrow hair.
I am
constantly
getting Crazy-Old-Man-Eyebrow hairs. I am not vain enough to prevent me from admitting that I tweeze regularly to prevent Crazy-Old-Man-Eyebrows from forming.
Meara, I wouldn't take it that way at all. She sounds like she had fun with you.
Huh. I'm reading it as a friendly-but-not-interested. I need a Buffista ruling! :)
(I mean, I wasn't all "OMG she's the love of my life", but definitely cute enough that I had noticed her at a thing the week before, and hoped from her pictures she was the same person, and would be interested in going out again when I don't have a migraine and maybe with a bit of alcohol and touchy flirting...)
I'm GUESSING that means "no thanks, but you don't have to pretend to avoid me in the future"? Argh
Meara, I wouldn't say that at all. I think she really liked you, and was pissed that you kicked her ass with a migraine. but the smiley face says it all. I say ask if she wants an escort to big shindig.
(Of course, I give the caveat that I am **horrible** at reading women. I mistake friendliness for flirting. And still haven't figured out when I am actually being flirted with)
...I'm GUESSING that means "no thanks, but you don't have to pretend to avoid me in the future"? Argh.
I read it as complimenting your spicy brains and looking forward to seeing you again. She may have read you "rematch or just say hi" as being a bit equivocal and so might be following your lead.
Sigh. And of course, in addition to trying to parse her response, I have to figure out what to respond to it! Without sounding weird or desperate or stalkery, because as I said, I know I'll run into her again...
So Merlin has started pooping behind the sofa. The Girl's friend recommended phoning the local cat shelter for advice - apparently they have pet behaviour specialists available to help people who have adopted animals. That's nice. Otherwise life is fairly normal, except that bag-of-nerves hates-public-speaking me has signed up for a research storytelling thing where, after a couple of workshops, I have to perform a story relating to my research. First workshop is tonight and I spent all of yesterday working on my story so it had better be OK. (I'm actually rather excited.)
Anne, good luck with your licencing exam!
Congrats, Sean!
smonster, I wish you unbelievably awesome and incredibly exciting meeting/dates with Marty Sue.
meara, I think she sounds interested, in a laid-back-for-now, see-how-it-goes way.
meara,
I would take her to be kind of interested, and curious to know how things go the next time you see her. She probably is wondering if the migraine was an excuse and is letting you make the next move to see if you remain interested.
Ryan has reached the questioning phase. I was expecting "Why?" Instead I keep hearing "How to do that?" He has a practical bent, this boy.
