Learning experience

[cyrano]

Apparently I suck at parties. Who'da thunk.

However, lovely women telling me I look good should happen more often.

Comments

[satyrlovesong.livejournal.com]

Yep.

I went to a party a few months ago, and met a CHARMING gentleman. We spent hours talking, then I made a special point to give him my business card. I was practically floating on air when he called the next day, but *somehow* he got the impression that I didn't really like him and was just toying with him. After all, why would a pretty girl who had had guys swarming like bees to honey want to spend time with a heavy set guy with a limp, right?

Wrong! I happen to prefer big guys, and more importantly this guy grokked me and my occasionally off beat sense of humour. And he understands and shares my obsession for researching, and consulting the encyclopedia on obscure scientific or historical trivia. He's a tech geek too, so his eyes don't glaze over when I start raving about the benefits of clustering. And he's funny, and charming, and he COOKS!!!

But no, I must not like him because he's big and awkward and shy and sometimes mis-speaks or there is a moment of perfectly (to me) comfortable silence.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I don't *remember* getting your business card...

[satyrlovesong.livejournal.com]

Nope. We haven't met yet (that I know of) but I imagine we will eventually. We have enough things in common, but don't end up in the same areas of California often.

But I *do* enjoy your writing, and your good sense. That's why I read you periodically after seeing comments on rightkindofme's journal, and eventually wanted to know more.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was amusing myself there. I'm pretty good with silence and less good with tech.
I do hope I make sense here. I worry that recently my writing is more caustic or superficial in an unconscious reaction to a world that seems to grow darker and more bleak. But this journal isn't just for me, and it makes me happy to know people are reading it.
And I'm looking forward to meeting you.

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally. The movie-star type is pretty to drool over, but unless he's got an utterly amazing personality, I'll be over talking to the geek in the gaming T-shirt if you need me.

Some people have gaydar, I have geekdar. I can sniff them out even when they're dressed the same as everyone, and a geek who also looks nice? Heaven on earth.

It doesn't even have to be a tech geek, either. Gaming, books, plays, movies that don't star Adam Sandler or Lindsay Lohan, politics (real politics, not "I'm a [insert party here]" but unable to explain why)... you name it.