ok, sorry i’ve been out of touch. i’ve been trying to digest stuff. ok, so i was uber excited about going to the sfmoma with my workplace crush last thursday.
rewind back to the previous weekend, i by chance was browsing on okcupid the previous friday night and a guy im’d “hi.” he had sent a “hi” earlier in an e-mail, so i thought to myself, “he’s quite persistent, isn’t he?” so i thought to myself, it couldn’t hurt to say a simple “hi.” well, long story short, after im’ing a bit and then talking on the phone for 5 hours (well, it got a bit hot and heavy on his end…you know me and how much i love to titillate). we met on saturday, and well, unfortunately, i didn’t feel the zing! i was hoping and wishing i could feel more for him, but my heart just didn’t feel it. ugh! ugh! ugh! i thought by now, all i wanted was to meet a decent, sweet guy with a genuine heart, but it wasn’t enough…i wanted to feel more passion towards him, but i couldn’t force myself to feel something i didn’t. he let me talk about all sorts of things, so i felt connected to him as a good friend, but i just couldn’t feel more romantic towards him and believe me, it was killing me and trying to explain it to him didn’t help the situation any more. i even let him make out with and dry hump me, but it just didn’t feel right. i ended up crying actually. i hated that i wasn’t in better control of my heart.
you may say, well, why don’t i just date him and see if my feelings change or develop into something more, but i could see myself being unhappy ultimately because i went against my gut instincts. i’m trying to listen to what my heart, mind, and body want together, not just one or the other. i’ve waited too long to settle for someone who sorta fits what i want. chemistry is a huge part of what i want. i want the butterflies, at least initially.
i e-mailed him to ask if we could be friends. then as the week passed, i just realized that i was too conflicted inside. i don’t think anyone enjoys being the “bad guy” in whatever potential relationship, so i tried to explain that i didn’t want to end up hurting or leading him on via text last sunday. then we got to texting, and he suggested that we just fuck for the fun of it. i admit that i haven’t been fucked for a good year and a month, but then again, i really want to fuck someone i love, so as horny as i am, i don’t think i can fuck him just to do it. it’d fill me with too much regret and guilt and make things more complicated between us. i told him about this blog and even gave him the url which might be a mistake, but maybe if he reads this, he’ll understand where i’m coming from and how i’m feeling inside. (i’m really sorry. i wish my heart could feel more for you!!!)
so now back to my workplace crush, all last week, i had major butterflies fluttering in my stomach. i sent him a link to a we are scientist’s “after hours”, he commented that it was too mainstream for him. ouch! next day came along and he im’d, “how bout that slinky?” i was scratching my head and wondering what he was talking about. i asked him, “what?” and he replied, “how about that SLINKY?” i looked around my desk and saw the slinky that sits on my desk. i picked it up and he had left a cute thumbdrive filled with 43 songs that he likes. i plugged it into my computer and really enjoyed the songs. i’m totally smitten like a kitten. ugh! ugh! ugh! i got it bad, i feel like a schoolgirl on the playground, and the boy i really liked slipped a lollipop into the pocket of my skirt without me knowing. yum!
well, later in the day, i asked if he was heading to the sfmoma for sure. he asked me what i was talking about. i was totally MORTIFIED. i guess when he asked me to go the previous week, he didn’t really get that i had accepted his invitation, so he was surprised that i was actually going to go with him. he had invited another friend, so i tried to play it cool and said that i could do something else that night, but he assured me that it would be fine if i came along.
we walked from work together to sfmoma, talking and laughing. he is into many photographers, but in particular, robert frank and henry wessel. it was so inspiring to listen to him talk about what he loved and tries to do with his own photography…he was getting hotter by the second.
then his friend showed up. his friend literally went through the robert frank exhibit in less than 10 minutes and left. my workplace crush had seen the show 5 times already, so he sorta stayed in the same room as me, but let me take my precious time looking around. when i was done, we went our separate ways. on my muni ride home, i was quite inspired to take more pictures like frank, and i began to look at the world in a whole, different way. it was really cool, but i must admit that when i got home, i was feeling sorta like a huge idiot. i imagined the outing with my workplace crush going so differently in my mind. i thought we’d have a magic moment where he’d look at me and just know what my heart was feeling and wishing for, and he’d lean in and kiss me sweetly and passionately, but the reality was sooooooooo different. we didn’t even touch hands. i did touch his back gently to tell him i was ready to go. it was definitely not the french film i played in my head! (it made me think how love is never ever equal: the guy over the weekend likes me, i like my workplace crush, and my workplace crush likes some other hottie mctottie, i’m sure.)
this week at work, we are still sorta silly around each other—we got to talking about stuff and he mentioned that he had a small relationship history. i told him mine was a series of very tiny relationships. i tried to flirt with him a bit and said, “i’d think all the lovely ladies and chaps would be falling over each other trying to get with a smart, handsome guy like him. doesn’t he have to fight them off with a bat?!” he replied, “you’d think?!”
ugh! i wish i could read his mind for just a few minutes to assess the situation better…tee hee. i guess that’s the fun of having a crush. i feel like i’ve given him all the clues and hints that i’m open to hanging out and getting to know him better, but sometimes i think guys can be completely clueless?
besides straddling him at his desk or coming right out and saying, “hey, i’m smitten with you!”, what’s this girl to do? :p