Infatuation
Brief update as I go to do some study cramming for a math mid-term I'm going to fail in two hours.
There are a bunch of people in the house I've moved into. Upstairs there is me (28yo Irish guy), Tickno (middle-aged Indonesian guy), Sam (17yo guy-from-Hong-Kong (ie Chinese, but English is his first language)), and Aya (23yo Japanese girl).
[Edit: I have no idea how to spell Tickno's name, but the pronunciation is like 'Techno' but with an 'i' instead of 'e'.]
And I'm becoming quite infatuated with Aya.
An actual attraction (on my part) was inevitable for a number of reasons:
She's Asian. Yes, Asian women hit certain buttons for me.
She doesn't speak much English, so that hits the 'girl wot needs help' button.
She's very new to the country (3 months), so that hits the 'I'm a geek and have skills to share' button.
She's very slight (no, this isn't redundant with the 'Asian' button), and that hits the protective-button.
So all that was fairly predictable, and I was largely able to put it to oneside. (I'm not hitting on someone I share a house with (without a 'marching band'-level indicator of interest from the girl in question). It's unfair, frankly, to put someone in a situation they may be uncomfortable with, purely because I want a question ("are they interested in me?") clearly answered.)
But, dammit...... she's smart, and funny, and cute, and adorable, and intelligent, and measured, and not-superficial, and and and and and and.....
Example:
Sam (internet-generation kid that he is) said 'bitchin' in response to something being awesome.
Aya was confused. "Bitch is bad, no?"
Cue explanation of the subtle difference between bitch and bitchin' as a positive thing, and bitching as a mode of whining.
She then turns to me with a big smile on her face and says 'Brian, you are bitchin!'.
(this would be where my cuteness meter explodes....)
I may die if I have to continue to keep my mouth shut.