i'm a pixel here, myself

lovelypoet, I saw you in the Safeway today. I didn't come over and say "hi" because I was on a date (which: more later) -- we'd stopped in to get something to drink because we were just coming off the beach and planning to wander around the park for a while.

I appear to be striking out on the boy front, though. This one was breathy-voiced and lispy (neither of which comes across in email) and totally passive. In fairness to him, I may give him one more shot -- unless it's an absolute nightmare, I think most people deserve two dates -- but the stake has been put in the ground.

His roommates, on the other hand, were very cool. Actually (amusingly) I'd messaged one of them on OKCupid (same place I met this guy) and we chatted by email for a while until he went away on a trip and stopped responding to my email, at which point I stopped sending them. This was over a year ago, and there was no indication he remembered me or knew who I was, so disaster averted. But he was cuter and more assertive than the guy I was on a date with :-|