I figure I should work my way to the second page of posts as quickly as possible to give the appearance that this is a real blog. I sent this email to a girl last night at 1 AM:
start email:
subject: drinks?
Hey Jen, this is YoungAdventures from [that thing]. This is a sort of random late night thing… I was just thinking about how I enjoyed talking/hanging out with you the one time and how we never got around to seeing some jazz; so I was wondering if you were interested in meeting up some time and getting drinks and/or picking up some live jazz. No pressure, just thought you might like to get away from working on the dissertation/celebrate if you are done.
Joel
ps school is pretty much out for me and my schedule is really open; so if you’re more into doing an afternoon thing or whatever im flexible. feel free to call: [my number]
(hope the email thing isnt weird… i just thought of this and if i put it off to tomorrow i probably wouldnt do it)
end email.
I met this girl through an ultimate frisbee league, we hung out with one other person at a mexican place after the first game (not a date) and had a good time. I mentioned that I was going to pick up some live jazz with friends that night (something I still haven’t done in DC) and she told me to call her if I ended up going (!). didn’t happen. I saw her once more at another game about a month ago, and no contact since then. Spawning from the same new sense of life that led me to start this blog, I threw caution to the wind and asked her out via e-mail last night. Obviously you’re supposed to call in this sort of situation but it was late and (as i suggested) i probably wouldn’t have done it if I had put it off a day. also, awkwardness/fear.
No response as of 11 the next morning. girl is cute (kinda has that funny-looking aspect that makes for good “not the hot one” characters in teen shows while still being attractive), is 5 years older than me, about to get a PhD.
Ironically, I have a date with a different girl tonight. Have not been on a real date in over a year. The sunlight, it rejuvinates.
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