BACKGROUND
So the other night, I was hanging out with three female friends of mine. The gal whose wedding I performed (we'll call her Mrs. M) and her two roommates, to be specific. I have hung out with them like five times since school started back up this month. One of the two roommates is single. I met her last year, only a few months after getting dumped, and I was...not my best. I've trying to make up for that first impression by bringing the three of them fresh baked cookies almost every time I come visit. Seems to have worked.
Anyhow, single girl is a nerd. She's a big Doctor Who fan, loves Firefly, had read Snow Crash, digs Star Trek, loved X-Men First Class, reads TV Tropes, etc. To show how off my game I was when I met her, those are all things I'm in to and NONE OF IT came up in the hours her, Mrs. M, and I spent hanging out.
THE POSSIBLE SIGNAL
While Mrs. M and Roomie-With-A-Boyfriend were off in their own little conversation, Single Roomie and I were talking. We were at the movie theater, seeing a midnight show of Pulp Fiction, and there was a Twilight poster outside the theater, so we were discussing that. I mentioned that my ex was a Twihard and a Gleek, and that I thought I could do better going forward. She agreed...and then she said what I needed to do was find a really nerdy girl to ask out.
THE FRIDGE LOGIC
She coslays. She watches Doctor Who. Earlier that night, she borrowed a BUNCH of my DCnU #1s (9/16). She owns Firefly on DVD. I referred to "thought viruses" on the drive home and she asked if I had read Snow Crash.
THE QUESTION
WAS THAT A SIGNAL? Or just friendly advice?
REASONS FOR DOUBT
So the other night, I was hanging out with three female friends of mine. The gal whose wedding I performed (we'll call her Mrs. M) and her two roommates, to be specific. I have hung out with them like five times since school started back up this month. One of the two roommates is single. I met her last year, only a few months after getting dumped, and I was...not my best. I've trying to make up for that first impression by bringing the three of them fresh baked cookies almost every time I come visit. Seems to have worked.
Anyhow, single girl is a nerd. She's a big Doctor Who fan, loves Firefly, had read Snow Crash, digs Star Trek, loved X-Men First Class, reads TV Tropes, etc. To show how off my game I was when I met her, those are all things I'm in to and NONE OF IT came up in the hours her, Mrs. M, and I spent hanging out.
THE POSSIBLE SIGNAL
While Mrs. M and Roomie-With-A-Boyfriend were off in their own little conversation, Single Roomie and I were talking. We were at the movie theater, seeing a midnight show of Pulp Fiction, and there was a Twilight poster outside the theater, so we were discussing that. I mentioned that my ex was a Twihard and a Gleek, and that I thought I could do better going forward. She agreed...and then she said what I needed to do was find a really nerdy girl to ask out.
THE FRIDGE LOGIC
She coslays. She watches Doctor Who. Earlier that night, she borrowed a BUNCH of my DCnU #1s (9/16). She owns Firefly on DVD. I referred to "thought viruses" on the drive home and she asked if I had read Snow Crash.
THE QUESTION
WAS THAT A SIGNAL? Or just friendly advice?
REASONS FOR DOUBT
- Mrs. M is on record as saying that she can not, under any circumstance, picture me and Single Roomie dating. Seeing as Mrs. M is one of my most level headed friends, I take her opinion as next to gospel.
- The aforementioned horrible first impression.
- While not being obsessed and depressing, I haven't exactly been smooth and confident around her neither.
- The self esteem issues that render next to unable to understand signals.
