Oh man.

I'm in trouble.  My date with McKinley went super well. Amazingly well.  And I know I'm going to crush on her madly starting from, well, I think I was already kind of emotionally invested even from her first message, but now I'm in that stage where I get a stupid dreamy smile on my face when I remember something she said, and I'm thinking about her way too much for someone who's just had a first date.  This is my fatal flaw.  I know this.  I get over-invested in people. And ideas of people.  But I still can't stop it from happening.

But seriously guys.  This girl is awesome.  It was so easy to talk to her.  She was articulate and funny and we had heaps of random things in common.  Like at one point we were talking about something to do with philosophy and I said, rather flippantly, "you are who you pretend to be" (which is a Xena quote) and she was like OMG Kurt Vonnegut and I was like "oh, I got it from Xena" and then she sat back and laughed and said that was her favourite interaction in the whole date. And I was like "wait, you know Xena?" and it turns out she loved Xena and it used to be the thing that her mum used to bribe her to do homework.  And then she promptly wrote down the episode name and the season (Blind Faith, Season 2) in her notebook.  Because she loves notebooks.  Oh, and she writes fantasy short stories.  And knows what I'm talking about when I mention random games, and asks me things like "have you ever played Fallout 3?"  We have made informal plans to watch Xena together (she hasn't seen past Season 4) and I've also said that she needs to teach me how to solve a cryptic crossword because I have no idea how to even start those things.

There are a whole bunch of THINGS that are in the way however.  Like the fact that she's vegan, and I've said on my profile that I probably wouldn't date a vegetarian, and how I live at home still, and she's said in her questions somewhere that she wouldn't date someone who still lived with their parents. There are other things too, which I won't mention here but which are Fairly Significant as well - probably more so than the whole vegan/parents thing.  But I'm not going to let my brain ruin this too much before it even gets started.

I guess, over time, I've become okay with the idea of just dating someone for a while.  It doesn't have to be the whole U-Haul Get-Married-Have-Kids thing right away.  I would like to get to know her, and grow a little with her, and maybe come to care for her for a while before life interrupts.

But anyway, this post is getting too somber for something which is, essentially, a post about a really really amazing day.  I had a date with a beautiful, intelligent girl, and I know we both enjoyed it, we both like each other a lot (this has been confirmed, verbally), and we have plans to meet up again.  At the very least, I've made a friend.  And that's something to celebrate.