Okay so Ashley was right, there has been boyness...
It's the party boy from a few weeks ago. After a lot of initial phone and facebook tag, we have been spending a lot of time together. First we went to a party, it was my first toga party and we weren't in togas...haha oh well, it's just one of those things you have to do before you graduate I feel like. Ever since then we have been doing various things: going to the movies, renting movies, bubble tea, going out to dinner or dessert, etc.
My favorite two were this weekend, on Friday he wanted to go to Necto's for Pride Night, which I thought was weird since it would be full of gay boys and 99% of straight guys are too homophobic for that. But no, he said it's a lot more fun because the people are so friendly and it's a lot more interesting. (At this point I was convinced he was gay). But he was right, it was SO much fun, the people watching was AMAZING, and everyone was so nice. The fact that he thought the same thing was so cool.
Then on Saturday I definitely felt like a true 'grown-up'... and more specifically, like a Ann Arbor yuppy... it was freaky. There I was, getting dressed up to go see a Woody Allen movie...then afterwards we came back here and discussed life over candlelight and a bottle of wine until 5 in the morning. Talking about the tragedies and comedies of our own lives (relates to the movie) and then about Van Gogh and Maoist politics... and it felt like I was watching myself from the outside. I kept thinking, is this really happening to me!? I mean, the girl who drinks $3 40's on the porch steps, who gets a kick out of dressing up at Meijer, and is used to playing video games on 'dates' and yet, there I was.... Well nevertheless, the night ended with a confirmation he wasn't gay so that was good. :-)
So overall, this all happened completely out of the blue... and nothing even close to this has happened in years and years. The good news is that we have a lot in common plus he's super easy going and seems really interested in getting to know me better. He's weird and dorky and interesting and liberal, etc. The bad news is that it's happening so fast that I haven't been able to develop a level of comfort around him yet, and am not used to compliments and eye contact, so I revert back to middle school shyness level and feel completely nausious at times. :-/ Also bad, is that I cannot afford going out that much, I don't have near enough time. I already paid the price by staying up all last night for something that shouldn't have even been that hard.
Well there is my update, not that exciting to most people, but it is to me... it kinda feels like I'm in the movies or something, where people actually go out on dates around town or something :-P... so we shall see if this goes anywhere...