"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Things are looking good, but college is looming...what to do?

The Comeback Kid

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I'm ready to go off to college in a week and a half, but I did have a girl-related situation I hope you can help me with (it's a little long b/c I'm explaining the background of it, so it provides a clearer view).

This summer, I was a counselor at a sports camp. Not many of the chicks working there were hot, but there was a HB8 that I did consider to be decently hot (I'm 18, she's 17). I also saw how some of the other counselors/specialists (for each sport) made it look painfully obvious they were hitting on her. When I saw this the first day, I decided it was time for a DJ experiment: do somewhat the opposite of what they do (towards her) and see what happens. This means I wouldn't really hit on her (if at all), wouldn't go running over to her, and wouldn't give her nearly as much attention the other guys did - I had nothing to lose here.

Now I did talk to her when she was very close by, enough that we got along well. I used some C+F with her as well when I had the chance, since I was able to use wit in regard to some of my camper's antics. However, it was the last few days of camp where things got interesting. The other counselors in my group and I were resting/sleeping in the shade while the kids were at another sport...I hear a rusting in the grass right by me...I wake up to see her standing atop me. She stayed and we talked for the rest of that period - it did seem like some chemistry was developing. On the last day of camp, I saw her when we were at her sport and when the whole camp was together at the end of the day. I got her screenname (a way of contact of course), as it seemed like she was eagerly looking for a pen to write her sn down with.

Fast foward a week later. I had IM'ed her once prior to this when I was on vacation (it was a 10-min IM, used some C+F), but it got good after this IM. She told me she was trying to set up a soccer game with a few of the counselors from the camp. When I ask who else is involved, not to my surprise, she said it was just us. I promptly got the number close (I then made sure she gave me her real number, which she did - she sounded real nervous over the phone and apologized for it online afterwards :confused: ) Anyway, I joked that we were gonna play one-on-one soccer over an entire field since no one else was coming...apparently she liked the idea and since we both live real close to the field (and to each other - she lives 30 secs from me), we made it happen. I didn't win lol, but there was a LOT of kino. After we were both very tired from the game (the field is bigger than we thought), we talked for around 30 minutes before we had to go (we both had things to do).[/I]

I don't know what you call this - I don't think it was a date, but I'm not sure. I didn't talk to her today at all (I was out a bit anyway), but was considering setting something up Thursday or Friday (I leave for school Sept. 1). I'll call her tomorrow to see what's up. I could either challenge her to a rematch (keep the theme going, and pick a sport I know I can win lol) or make it kinda like an actual "date" where we'd go bowling or see a movie or something like that. There is only a week and a half till I'm up there, so I'm not looking for a real relationship here (some action perhaps :yes: ), but she seems to be a really cool, fun and down-to-earth person and someone I can keep in touch with when I go home for vacations.

What do you think about all of this? I'm not going to sit and try to guess whether she likes me or not (it seems like she might though), but as long as there's fun, it's all good.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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The Comeback Kid

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Any opinions (helpful ones lol)/advice is appreciated. I feel pretty good about this situation, but your opinions, from a 3rd person view will definitely make things clearer.
 

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Sounds great to me. What are you not sure about? She tolerates you enough to give you her s/n, her #, and to play a whole game of soccer 1 on 1, full of kino and laughing and good times. If my calculations are correct, I deduce that she just may like you!

Do what you want. If you just wanna get on, get off, and get out, then do it. If you wanna keep her around to hang out with on holidays, then do it. If you wanna do both, which sounds like the best idea to me, lol, then do that. You can do anything from here.
 

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Ace of Flames said:
Sounds great to me. What are you not sure about? She tolerates you enough to give you her s/n, her #, and to play a whole game of soccer 1 on 1, full of kino and laughing and good times. If my calculations are correct, I deduce that she just may like you!
Sounds good :up:

I talked to her today (called but apparently she forgot to turn her cell on for most of the day? :confused: I saw her when I logged online and had to talk to her that way) and while things went well, it seems like nothing will happen the next couple of days. She's away on Friday and tomorrow she says "she's with some of her friends", though she first told me she is working during the day tomorrow (which is true) and told me about the friends after that. Obviously, I couldn't just leave it at that after she said she'd be with friends tomorrow - I pretended to get mad that she didn't want to see me (but in a way you could tell I was joking) and she said we'll definitely see each other again before I leave in 9 days and that we'll talk soon. She did have one or two of those crying emoticons when she said she can't do anything 2moro cuz she's with her friends, but as we all know, that really doesn't mean much lol.

She also mentioned that a few of the other people from the camp were going to play something* (soccer, basketball - one of those) and asked if I could make it, but I'm busy tonight so I can't (not that I'd go anyway if I was free lol...gotta appear busy sometimes even when I'm not, plus other people I don't know as well would be there).

*Apparently, there never ended up being a game (according to her, one of the other people had to go home).
 
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