It's great to be single and infatuated!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I went to a sayonara-party on Saturday for a lady-friend of mine who is moving to Austin. I didn’t know what to expect, as I don’t know her too well (or her friends at all), but I think she’s cool. Well, I was sitting at the party, talking to strangers (and one guy from years back whom I wish I hadn’t met again), and This Girl came in.

This Girl Looked amazing, causing my usual defense mechanism to kick in and tell me “she’s out of my league.” She was youngish, maybe 24 (I’m 30), slender and adorable, and wore a sundress and thick, nerdy, horn-rimmed glasses like mine. (Translation: SUPER-sexy.) My first thought: “Don’t kid yourself. Chicks like that are born with boyfriends.”

Anyway, someone at one point told me her name was A------. The name rung faint bells in my head. I went over to her and had the following conversation:

Jackelope: “Excuse me, is your name A------?”

A------: “Yes.”

Jackelope: “Did you go to Univeristy of Memphis?”

A------: “Yes.”

Jackelope: “Were you a freshman in 1996?”

A------: “Yes.”

Jackelope: “I think I was your English teacher…”

Sure enough, it was her, from my first semester of teaching. We spent a good part of the evening talking. She has changed quite a bit from the shy, quiet girl I knew six years ago, and has made it clear that she’s extremely interested in me (as I am in her). She’s heading out of town for a week tomorrow, but has promised to call me immediately upon return.

Everyone please wish me luck, whether you post it or not!

2

Good luck
If all else fails you can always use the club and sack approach.

egg

3

good luck. us married folk live vicariously

4

Wishing you large amounts of luck.

leechbabe

5

Wishing you so much luck, the little luck goblins have hernias carrying it all.

6

Now THAT is funny.

Oh yes, I made an offering to the Patron Saint of Good Luck in your name, so it should all work out well.

7

Here’s to you pal. I’ll toast to you whilst I enjoy my one can of Bud. Well, maybe two. Or three. Could be four. Better make it five. Hell, just round it to six. No, wait a minute, odd numbers sound better - I’ll go for seven. No, you’re right, even numbers: make that eight. Since you’re celebrating, better make it an illuminous nine. Okay, okay, a soul-searching ten - see you in pixeyland, courtesy of money-robbing Angel.

8

Bump

So jackelope has she called?
Have our good luck wishes worked?

leechbabe

9

It’s like that sweet feeling you get when you’re next in line at the post office, isn’t it? You’ve still gotta wait a little bit to get what you want, but you know it’s coming!

10

And I thought MY social life was empty! Sheesh! :smiley:

11

I’m waiting with bated breath here, Jack. Spill it! Did she call?

12

Thanks for keeping track, Max. She didn’t call. She said she’d be back Monday, and I figured she’d be exhausted from the drive, etc. So I went about my business as usual Monday (but never got more than a few feet from the phone).

Then it got to about 10 p.m. Monday, and she hadn’t called, and since we hadn’t really established who would call whom, I called her. She made it clear she was thrilled to hear from me (I get the feeling she was too shy to call), and I invited her to a friend’s birthday party this Saturday (I work late every night until then, and I simply must attend this party), and she said yes.

So Saturday we’re going out. I figure I’ll ask her to dinner before the party so we can talk alone a bit before we go mingle. I also plan to get a few drinks in her. Not to take advantage, but because the people who will be at this party are aggressively rebellious intellectual types, and a stranger will need some liquid courage. Lord knows I did when I first met this crowd.

Anyway, thanks for asking; keep the thread going and I’ll update as is appropriate.

13

YAY! Good Deal Jackelope! I’m happy for you. :slight_smile:

14

Thanks for the update Jackelope. Good Luck Saturday :slight_smile:

15

Rock on. :slight_smile:

Keep us posted, and have fun Saturday.

DarkJudicator, apparently not the only boy who makes passes at girls who wear glasses…

16

I know I already told you this earlier, jackelope, but best of luck on the date! Sounds like we both have exicting weekends planned. (yuou have your date and everything else, and I have the Dopefest and everything else) Hope it all works out, and keep us posted! :slight_smile:

DarkJudicator, you make passes at girls who wear glasses? (hey, you’re a poet and you know it, right? :p) Well, were it not for the distance between us… :wink: Happy almost-100[sup]th[/sup] post, by the way.

F_X

17

(The above was my attempt to go for the gold [1800 posts] before the boards went down. That vain, heroic attempt failed. I note you are now over 100 posts, but felicitations regardless.)

18

Thanks, all, for the kind wishes: I now have the official results, and after having them tabulated by a team of experts, the date is officially:

A success!

We had a great dinner (well, a cheap dinner at a fun local place with lots of “character”–Huey’s Midtown, for those who knwo Memphis), then went to my friend’s birthday party. She stuck close to me for the first hour or so, then took off and started meeting people on her own, to whom she introduced me in time (it was a pretty big party with lots of people I didn’t know). I’d guess that I spent two-thirds of my time there with her, the rest talking to others (and keeping a discreet eye out to make sure she wasn’t sitting alone in the corner). She had a ball, I had a ball, and we didn’t feel tethered to each other like a lead weight to a helium balloon (in either direction).

In short, we both agreed that we had a ball. I was busy all day today shooting a movie, but will talk to her tomorrow.

That’s the update, folks. Thanks again to all who’ve posted.

19

Kissing? Any kissing?

20

::sings an old Police ditty::

Wet bus stop
She’s waiting.
Your car is warm and dry

W-wait - six years ago?

Good Luck, man :slight_smile: