Another thing happened!
And another didn't happen.
My coffee date cancelled :( It was apparently work-related, but there's been no re-schedule.
I don't really care, to be honest. He owes me nothing; I owe him nothing. We were just two people who maybe wanted to meet IRL at some point. But no dice. No sweat off my back though.
However, I did get a message from someone who I found to be relatively cute and he *gasp* put effort into his message AND profile! He meets all of my minimum requirements! (I know, I definitely set my bar pretty high). From now I shall refer to him as PassTheDutch (because I like that song and he lived in the Netherlands).
After some messaging back and forth, I left the door open (WIIIIIIIDE open...if he didn't get my huge hints that we should meet, he would have been an idiot) to ask about an IRL meet-up. He met the challenge and accepted it!
We now have plans for Sunday afternoon. At 4pm (is that a weird time to anyone else besides me?).
We're gonna walk around the sculpture park (since he's never been) and then get dinner (I still need to decide what kind of food. PRESSURE. I feel like I'm putting too much thought. But it has to be delicious and I must look cute eating it. Which means burritos are out :( As is anything pesto-related because of the super high probability of green-crap-in-teeth situation. Decisions!).
I feel like that's a lot of activity for a first date though? What about coffee? It would be easy to chat for an hour and run if things sucked. What if he's a creepy murderer? or WORSE. Not as cute as I think! (I clearly have my priorities in line). I'm locked in to a meal AND an activity. That's faaaaaar too much time to spend with a stranger.
And worse yet? We've been texting. Like, getting-to-know-you texting. THE HORROR!
I'm legitimately afraid we're going to use up all of our conversations over text and then have absolutely nothing to talk about during our excruciatingly-long Sunday date. We'll have nothing to do but sit in painful silence while I chew my not-burrito (which, since there's no burrito involved, already sounds terrible).
AND HE'LL HEAR ME CHEWING (noted: choose noisy restaurant). Oh god, is it too late to back out now? *mild panic attack*
Good thing I love science so much, otherwise I might very well say 'cya later OKC', I'll be a shut-in with my bottle of wine and giant burrito.
But, for you, science, I won't
Not to mention, I find this guy kinda cute and somewhat interesting and a person I might actually want to get to know.
Which is actually scarier than him being a murderer for 2 reasons.
1) Maybe I've built him up in my head to be far more awesome than he actually is. This being my first online-to-real life encounter ("encounter", lolz, that sounds...sexual), it could very well set me up for disappointment for all of my future 'encounters'. Maybe he sucks. Maybe he's not attractive. Maybe he's alright, but not that great. These aren't horrible things, but I'm just afraid I'm going to set myself up for disappointment.
OR
2) WORSE!
What if I like him? What if he likes me back? What if he doesn't like me back?!
There is a potential for emotions to get involved. I'm not sure if I'm okay with that. This is for science after all. This is not an experiment to make me feel the feels.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Maybe he'll suck and I'll have to spend 3 hours of my life listening to myself chew loudly. We can only hope!
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