Gettin' Tingles in 2015

Another day has come and gone. Work was mostly a pile of poop, only because we had a couple people call-in and there was a massive glob of donors that came in last minute. We didn’t stick the last donor until two hours after we closed the doors and stopped taking more donors, which is very uncommon. Oh well.

I’m hanging out with Maggie tomorrow, who I met via responding to a CL ad and have been talking to all weekend. First email, then text, and then I just got off the phone with her after an almost 3 hour conversation. I did not expect that. She seemed cool before, but she seems REALLY cool. now We have a lot of the same interests. No idea what it will lead to, she posted wanting a friends with benefits sort of thing, but we are getting along insanely well. Assuming it’s this good in person, perhaps it could lead to a relationship in time.

If that possibility does come to pass, that would be extra nice. I’ve never really had a “normal” lead up to a relationship. With Mayumi, I didn’t know her well at all, I pursued her and we hooked up for a while, and got to know each other and then decided to be together after that. Not to mention the whole keeping it a secret thing. None of my relationships have been normal. This feels like how something should start, craigslist post notwithstanding. You talk to someone, get to know them, and it escalates from there. You talk on the phone before hanging out at all or at least extensively. Even talking on the phone with someone who wasn’t out of state family was a refreshing throwback. Being friends before dating someone seems like an obvious step, but it feels so uncommon in 2015. The culture seems to be shifting to hooking up and then maybe things develop from there. I can adapt to that if that’s what it takes, but I like how this is going a lot. We’ll see how tomorrow goes, but I’m pretty stoked.