excitement presympathized chipper novelty
i am meeting a friend for dinner tonight. this is a girl i know through metafilter and have only hung out with a couple times, and in group situations. she’s cool, and i like her, and i’ve wanted to hang out with her in a smaller setting.
so we’re gonna get dinner tonight at a place by her house. normal, right? completely unintimidating. but this is me we’re talking about.
i’m not wearing the right thing. i’ll be greasy after a 10 hour day. i’ve never eaten vietnamese before and who knows what tummy troubles it may give me. i’m fat and huff and puff if walking super fast and talking and she’s skinny and walks fast and it’s embarassing. and i might be too fat for the chairs/booth at the restaurant (yes, it is a concern, and yes, it has happened before. i am that massively large.).
plus, i don’t have anything interesting or normal to talk about. who wants to talk about apocalyptic sci-fi or hiroshima or how annoying it is when people can’t meet a damn deadline? i am a very negative person and i complain a lot, and i really try to rein (reign?) that in when i’m meeting new people or hanging out with people who haven’t known me for YEARS.
posted by sarah on 07/17/2008 at 03:29 PM
Why do you have to live in PHILLY? If ONLY I had someone up here who would meet me for dinner to talk about post-apocalyptic sci-fi, Hiroshima, and how annoying people are (in general, most of the time)!! Instead, I have to use my text-ordering-authority to force my students to talk about the first two…
on 07/17/2008 at 05:12 PM
yeah, that’s why we got along so well in the WC!
