Just as a simple update:

Just as a simple update:

L.A. Heather and I had a class together for a couple of days... and then she dropped it. Which totally blew my plan of showing off my mad skills as a student. But even though we no longer had the class - I still managed to run into her a bunch this last quarter. Usually I never see her. However been the doofus that I am I either said nothing and walked on past or hightailed it in the other direction. Eventually L.A. Heather picked up on this and asked me why I looked so horrified every time I saw her. Ha! I forget what I said but the real answer was "Because you're cute, I like you and you make me nervous."

Back on the infamous MySpace I met a girl (who found me). We'd exchanged some comments back and forth - nothing deep but she seemed cool. (She has a girlfriend so I refrained from flirting. I also refrained from flirting since she had no pictures up and really could have looked like anything.) (For the temp basis - I shall call her "Torrid".) So one day I login and receive a message from Torrid that she's decided to quit MySpace and here's her phone number. I wrote back, "Don't do that! I've only just started to talk to you and I'm never going to call you!" Well somewhere in there she got my phone number and swore she was a nice person and that she'd call me.

So last week she called and we had a nice chat and we setup a friend date for this last Saturday. She was going to bring her girlfriend and another friend but, thankfully, she had no entourage when I arrived. She turned out to be a well-educated red-head with a plus-size semi-goth appeal. In short - she was cool. I liked her. We ended up just talking for four or more hours and even carried our conversation to the market to do some shopping. During this chat she brought up that she and her girlfriend were "on different pages." And she told me all of her dramatic relationship history. And I caught her up on mine. She also told me that I was the first internet person that she ever wanted to meet in real life - I felt honored.

She called and commented the next day to tell me she had a fun time. :)

I had a good time too so I'm hoping this friendship grows and DOESN'T turn in to some horrible experience where I again pine for the unavailable chick. Meanwhile I've been overwhelming her with comments... probably scaring her and her girlfriend. :) What can I say... it's hard to connect with people and I'm still desperate for the teddy bear experience and I want it now now now. I'm a little impatient what with this gaping Franco-wound still in my chest.

And speaking of teddy bears - the CL girl I've been trying to arrange a meeting with for the teddy bear/shoulder to cry on hook-up has still not chosen a date.

I'm also now trying to arrange something with an older woman for a shoulder-massage exchange. That also seems to be getting postponed.