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There, and back again
Had a good weekend. Different for me, since it was a little busy.

A summary: 2 dates, dinner-and-drinks and dinner-and-a-movie, with the same girl. 1 party, involving nerds and ex-sorority members. 1 hangover.

Friday, I actually had a date. Let's call her A. Met up with A a bit after work, but it almost looked like it was not to be. First snag was when, after being mostly packed up, things shutdown, coat on, and feet aimed at the door, someone came to me with an oh-my-God-it's-broken-you-have-to-fix-it problem.

And the problem was annoying to me because it was with a site that needed to be launched live, something that we've decided as a company not to do on Friday's, let alone at 5:00 PM on any day. So I vaguely waved the fixing wand at it, might have fixed it, and ran out before anyone was the wiser. Seems like it was fixed since no one yelled at me today. So then, I get to the restaurant, and she's not there. Hang out for a half-hour or so, no sign of her. Eventually, I decide to take a walk outside for a smoke and to hook my cell phone up to the car charger.

Just walking out the door, I see a girl poke her head out of a car rolling past in the lot, and she says, "Les?" Well, that was A. I guess she'd been made late by construction (although she'd semi-joked about being unsure about coming at all), and then when she asked for me at the door they thought I'd left, and I was in a bad spot at the bar so she wouldn't have seen me anyway. But, just as we were both getting ready to go, we caught each other. Glad we did, because it was a really fun night. Don't go on very many "dates" as it is, so I was just kinda winging it. But humor goes a long way amidst grilling each other about likes & dislikes.. :) Finished dinner, had a few drinks, kept talking, finally saw her to her car a little bit after midnight.

Saturday, losgunna invited me to a lil soiree at her place, promising a night of nerds mingling with ex-sorority girl fun. Or weirdness. Or screaming running. She changed her mind on that a few times. :) But it ended up pretty cool, I drank way more than I ever intended (damn those girls and their drinking game madness!), had my smokes forcefully stolen several times, probably made a bit of a fool out of myself (but hopefully not a tool), and remember most of everything that happened. I think. Maybe.

Sunday, I was ruined. My own personal head-mounted Tilt-a-Whirl. I hate that, which is why I try not to drink that much. (Thus the aforementioned "hopefully not a tool") No one seemed to be glaring at me the next day, so maybe I'm okay. Ugh. Eventually I made it back home, since I crashed on losgunna's floor for fear of becoming a road hazard.

And though this completely ruins my standing in the Swingers world, I caught A on instant messenger and asked her out again. Trying not to be a freak, but I really like her. Good thing is, she accepted and reminded me that the guy in Swingers who actually ended up with The Girl, was the freakishly nervous guy who called the girl too early. Well, she has a point, but still... all things in moderation. At least I know she has a busy night tonight, so I won't be annoying her again for at least a day or two :)

So A and I got together to see Thir13en Ghosts. It was between that and K-PAX, but she'd mentioned that horror movies are good to see with boys, I figured that was a hint.

The movie was... okay. The sets were beautiful, the concept was promising but should have been given to Clive Barker. It seemed to want to be a Clive Barker movie, but I think he did that whole "giant diabolical machine" theme better with The Box in the Hellraiser movies. I wanted to be scared. Instead there were lots of loud, sudden things happening, and a lot of disturbing gore. I hate horror movies that resort to that, and only that. I wanted to have my head screwed with, and there was opportunity there to do it, but they missed it. But, I put my arm around the girl and managed to steal a few kisses, so that was good... I mean, I wasn't just there for the movie in and of itself.

Now... the thing is, the past few days make me seem like such a social butterfly, or such a whatever, I don't know. But if you know anything about me, this weekend was pretty different for me. For one, I went on a date. I haven't been on a date in... well, a long time. And going to a party on a weekend? Most times I never make it or I cancel, especially if I know I won't know many people there. Meet people at a party? *shudder* But I went, and fun was had.

Is this a new era for the mopester? Eh, I dunno. We'll see. Still thinking about getting that therapist appointment, but this weekend was definitely good. Now, I just have to keep myself from going overly gonzo about a nice girl and take it easy. Did I mention I was happy about the date? Hmm...