Name: Anonymous 2005-12-06 3:41
I don't hang out in these boards much, but this seems to be worth a shot, even though I'll just probably get flamed though, hurray for anonymity! ^_^
So here's an interesting story. My college has a huge crazy Halloween party every year. This year, I ended up dressing in a really sweet samurai suit,. and I was all set to get to have an awesome night of debauchery. Unfortunately, I went into town just before the party started and lost my wallet, it just fell out. Big trouble for me. As soon as I noticed that the wallet was missing (on my bus ride back to school), I stayed around and waited for the next bus back into town so I could go search for it (something unlikely, since it was 8pm at that time, and it was pretty dark.
So I get back to town and start walking the entire path that I walked in town looking for it. I wasn't in town long, so it took me like an hour to comb the entire area I walked around in. No wallet in sight (even lost my chopsticks while searching). Bummer.
I head back to the bus stop, and realize the next bus to campus will be there in about half an hour, *greeeat*.
As I'm standing at the bus stop, this girl in a totally weird costume which I'd met at the dinner I was in earlier comes up, and we recognize each other. It'll be a while, so I go ahead and say hi (even though I am TOTALLY socially inept), and somehow a conversation starts. She was this cute short anime fangirl/gamer girl, or at least so I found out as we talked and talked. Before I knew it, though, I'd gotten back to campus, and was now free to go hang out with my friends. But, she didn't know the campus very well, so I offered to help her find her friends who were planning to meet her.
The rest of my night, then, was spent hanging out with her friends, who I'd just met. Since they were all from off-campus, I ended up being their tour guide. This is totally weird for me. I'm a complete geek/gamer. I don't really have a social life outside a pretty tight group of friends... I even live on the gamer hall, so meeting new people is bizarre. Somehow, though, I managed to make it through the night pretty well.
The girl kept being concerned about my wallet and stuff, offering to call up the lost and found place every day for me until it was found, and kept apologizing for making me show her around the place.
Eventually, the party ended and everyone went in their respective directions. A few days later, I sent a DVD with Chobits burned on it to her, because we'd talked about how she lsot her last DVD and was stuck a couple episodes before finishing the anime. She was lots of fun to hang out with and talk to...
Somehow, I developed a huge crush on her the following days. I got her AIM and stuff, so I'd just go and say hi and we'd talk for a bit. She never mentioned the DVD, either.
Anyways, we go to the same martial arts club, so when we do go on the same day, we have to take the same bus. I thought, after a few days, that this was a silly effort, and mostly futile, since she has a boyfriend. Also, every time we have a convo in person now, it seems like it's a bit forced. I'm terrible at forcing conversation, mind you, but here's the kicker... *I'M* never the one really forcing it when it's dying off, it's *HER*. She also does this whole shy-shy thing (as it seems to be common amongst fangirls and the like), when we talk, but I have such difficulty reading into what it all means. Her boyfriend, I found, actually lives on the OPPOSITE coast of the US, and I've always been on the impression that long distance relationships, specially in college, are a waste. On the other hand, she also seems firm about keeping it going, since it's been going for a while.
Yeah, after a while, it devolved into occasionally saying hi to her on AIM and going on 2-minute long conversations that simply stopped abruptly. Ironically, the longest was about how awkward the conversation was O.o. I don't know what to do at this point. I mean, I like her and stuff, and I'd like to get to know her a bit better, but it's like walking with the ground moving under you.
My whole torment is that every time I think we have trouble talking because she just wants me to go away, she starts saying something that points in the completely opposite direction, like compliment me, or apologize about something, or visibly make an effort to have a pleasant conversation.
Dah, I'm getting a headache, someone please help me X( What should I do??1
So here's an interesting story. My college has a huge crazy Halloween party every year. This year, I ended up dressing in a really sweet samurai suit,. and I was all set to get to have an awesome night of debauchery. Unfortunately, I went into town just before the party started and lost my wallet, it just fell out. Big trouble for me. As soon as I noticed that the wallet was missing (on my bus ride back to school), I stayed around and waited for the next bus back into town so I could go search for it (something unlikely, since it was 8pm at that time, and it was pretty dark.
So I get back to town and start walking the entire path that I walked in town looking for it. I wasn't in town long, so it took me like an hour to comb the entire area I walked around in. No wallet in sight (even lost my chopsticks while searching). Bummer.
I head back to the bus stop, and realize the next bus to campus will be there in about half an hour, *greeeat*.
As I'm standing at the bus stop, this girl in a totally weird costume which I'd met at the dinner I was in earlier comes up, and we recognize each other. It'll be a while, so I go ahead and say hi (even though I am TOTALLY socially inept), and somehow a conversation starts. She was this cute short anime fangirl/gamer girl, or at least so I found out as we talked and talked. Before I knew it, though, I'd gotten back to campus, and was now free to go hang out with my friends. But, she didn't know the campus very well, so I offered to help her find her friends who were planning to meet her.
The rest of my night, then, was spent hanging out with her friends, who I'd just met. Since they were all from off-campus, I ended up being their tour guide. This is totally weird for me. I'm a complete geek/gamer. I don't really have a social life outside a pretty tight group of friends... I even live on the gamer hall, so meeting new people is bizarre. Somehow, though, I managed to make it through the night pretty well.
The girl kept being concerned about my wallet and stuff, offering to call up the lost and found place every day for me until it was found, and kept apologizing for making me show her around the place.
Eventually, the party ended and everyone went in their respective directions. A few days later, I sent a DVD with Chobits burned on it to her, because we'd talked about how she lsot her last DVD and was stuck a couple episodes before finishing the anime. She was lots of fun to hang out with and talk to...
Somehow, I developed a huge crush on her the following days. I got her AIM and stuff, so I'd just go and say hi and we'd talk for a bit. She never mentioned the DVD, either.
Anyways, we go to the same martial arts club, so when we do go on the same day, we have to take the same bus. I thought, after a few days, that this was a silly effort, and mostly futile, since she has a boyfriend. Also, every time we have a convo in person now, it seems like it's a bit forced. I'm terrible at forcing conversation, mind you, but here's the kicker... *I'M* never the one really forcing it when it's dying off, it's *HER*. She also does this whole shy-shy thing (as it seems to be common amongst fangirls and the like), when we talk, but I have such difficulty reading into what it all means. Her boyfriend, I found, actually lives on the OPPOSITE coast of the US, and I've always been on the impression that long distance relationships, specially in college, are a waste. On the other hand, she also seems firm about keeping it going, since it's been going for a while.
Yeah, after a while, it devolved into occasionally saying hi to her on AIM and going on 2-minute long conversations that simply stopped abruptly. Ironically, the longest was about how awkward the conversation was O.o. I don't know what to do at this point. I mean, I like her and stuff, and I'd like to get to know her a bit better, but it's like walking with the ground moving under you.
My whole torment is that every time I think we have trouble talking because she just wants me to go away, she starts saying something that points in the completely opposite direction, like compliment me, or apologize about something, or visibly make an effort to have a pleasant conversation.
Dah, I'm getting a headache, someone please help me X( What should I do??1