Yep... my date with Ruth is tomorrow, probably around 6 or so (...though we actually only talked about it Wednesday when I asked her, so I should probably bring it up again today and set a definite time at least a little bit ahead of time.) I'm kind of surprised that I'm not incredibly nervous about the whole thing... actually all the nervousness and frustration from earlier this week pretty much disappeared the moment I managed to ask her (or more likely, the moment she actually said yes. XD) I guess it's kinda like... I'm not nervous now because the really hard part--actually asking her out in the first place!--is already over with. Or something like that. But anyway, I'm really looking forward to the whole thing; this'll be the first time I've ever gone on a date, so I'm not entirely sure what to expect... but I figure there will be a lot of just general talking and being around each other, which is always good!
Speaking of talking, I actually ended up text-messaging her a lot last night since I didn't see her at supper. Okay, that's not exactly talking (and that 160-character limit per message is really annoying, as is trying to type stuff without an actual keyboard), but still. I seem to be getting better at typing stuff into the phone, though; it only takes me a couple minutes to type up a 160-or-so character message now, and part of that was going back and trimming the message a bit so it actually fit in 160 letters. Would probably be easier if I had one of those phones with the little slide-out keyboard thing, but eh, I only just got this one a month and a half ago and it's working pretty well for me... it'd be really silly to just randomly get a new phone already, plus I usually don't do a whole lot of text messaging (last night was literally the first time I ever sent more than two or three in a whole day.)
And kind of a funny thing: pretty much everyone I've told about this has been ridiculously excited about it. I think one or two may have actually jumped up and down when I mentioned that after three days of not being able to say anything, I finally managed to ask her out. I guess I'm pretty excited about it too, though I don't quite show it the same way... of course, I have been smiling and laughing a bit more than usual, and I've generally felt pretty good over the last few days despite having a minor sore throat (which seems to be going away, thankfully--it'd really suck to get sick just in time to have to postpone my first date ever...)
Still amazed that, despite all the potential problems, she actually agreed to go on a date with me. I mean... there's religious differences (she's Mormon, I'm not), a bit of an age gap (she's 18 or so, I'm 25), we've only known each other for a month, and she said in one of her recent DeviantArt posts she wasn't really interested in dating/relationships in general. I guess she must actually like me, then! Heh...
I'll probably post about the date itself after it happens... though maybe not in great detail since it'd probably be a little creepy to have all these random Russian people (who seem to make up about 90% of my readers) reading about my first date.
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