mad skills

stella has discovered a new talent! she is good at dates!

first, to explain the surprise. when dev and i first got together, i was relatively young, and our first "date" consisted of too many drinks after a poetry reading and way-drunk making out in the car. when we got together again after a year apart, we tried to date like normal people, but that lasted about two weeks before we fell back into old, comfortable bullshit. my first boyfriend lasted for 3 years in high school, and the time in between those two was college. there, i didn't date. (though some of the boys who entertained me thought i did. with them.) no, in college, i played strip poker with the infield of the university baseball team, turned my bathroom into a co-ed locker room, and played with boys for the fun of it. "dates" of the two-people-at-a-table-after-which-one-person-pays type i've not had much experience with.

last night was stella's fourth date since the beginning of february, granted, not with one person, but still, allowing myself to be set up by the old folks at the college isn't turning out all bad. so what if i'm making up for a lifetime's worth of first dates in two and a half weeks? and now past the third first date, i'm granting myself permission to think i'm good at it rather than just lucky.

now i just need to make sure not to have third dates with anybody; i don't want to mess up this first-date streak.

plus, with first-through-third dates, i don't have to mention that i'm just passing time with them until i can blow this popsicle stand in a year and a half.