Late sleep and Nathan's theatrical dilemma; ADIC & KK; great photo and men on dating

[skreidle]

Man, slept late today--woke up sometime after 11 when Nathan called with the results of his audition dilemma: apparently the director of Dracula thinks he's a lock on the part he was called back for, and he wants to be in a drama--the other, Thumbs, is a comedy--so he's going with the former. As for the sleep--I could've fallen asleep at 23ish last night, but didn't get to bed/sleep until almost 02.

Maybe I'll give Arnie at ADIC a call--he's supposed to have been back from his business trip for about a week now, and he told me to expect to hear back from him and/or HR then..

And maybe I'll ride up to the Krispy Kreme in Alexandria. See, there's a new one opening in Dupont Circle tomorrow morning, and Christine's planning on patronizing it. The problem here is that she's only lived in DC for a few months, if that, and I've lived 10 miles from a KK factory for over a year and never been. It would be a travesty, really, if she beat me to it. ;D

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Via deusinnomen:


Sean D. Tucker, flying the one-of-a-kind Oracle Challenger stunt plane, and Air Force Capt. Matt Kouchoukos of Bloomington, piloting an A-10 Thunderbolt, fly over the city Friday as a warm-up for the Chicago Air and Water Show, running through Sunday along the lakefront.
(Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak)
August 21, 2004

14" print $59, 20" print $79, 20" framed $149.

So awesome!

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Via xviragox: Zero Calls, And One Cruel Answer. Guys just aren't as complex as women want to believe, according to one author. (On the one hand, I'm thinking, "Man, those guys suck," and on the other, I'm thinking, "It's about time the girls did the second-guessing!" ;P) On the other hand, he doesn't think girls should ask guys out, which is bunk. And as Christine maintains:

Fische225 (13:46:19): yeah, cuz if he's into you, he'll ask you out. scoff.
CU Stryker (13:46:53): ha!
Fische225 (13:47:26): i'm a firm believer that guys need a nudge

Comments

[partywhipple.livejournal.com]

It's really true. A lot of time I won't ask someone out because I just think they aren't interested. I have found out on multiple occasions this really isn't true.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of this mindset, because the reason Christine and I are dating is because she gave a nudge. ;)

This is all the more relevant for me because I prefer to let things flow as they will, rather than concretely asking a girl out. It feels more natural, it doesn't put anyone on the spot, and thus it seems more likely to work out if things do come to pass. Also, it means I don't have to work up the nerve to do any asking until things are already going well. ;)

[elf.livejournal.com]

yeah, but in that gray area you can run into issues; particularly if one person wants/expects more from your interaction than the other, this could lead to a lot of hurt feelings.

also: this sounds suspisciously like a 'fear of rejection.' =P

(someone's got to be the devil's advocate)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'd say that's going to happen anyway, though naturally, open communication can ward off a lot of confusion. However, I don't think "open communication" is going to be happening during an unsolicited advance in either direction--that'll still come later.


And I'd say it's not so much fear of rejection, as fear of mutual discomfort following a negative interaction.

[xviragox.livejournal.com]

That part of the article that didn't seem quite right to me, either. The rest made sense.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

However, I don't think guys are quite as ballsy as the author seems to think--most -won't- just go up to a girl if they're interested.

[skamille.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that's true for people of a certain age/level of dating experience. I don't expect guys that I interact with to be this way, but I think if you're a late-20 early-30-something in a big-city dating scene, things pan out much more like that.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Ahh, fair enough. As a mid-20s guy who doesn't frequent the Big Cities, I can't say as I've had much exposure to that scene.