baby dates: recap

first of all, since i forgot this in my first post of 2009: happy new year, all! i had a GREAT new year's eve - i mean, no new year's kiss, YET AGAIN, i am freaking CURSED in that arena, but whatever. oh - well, technically i kissed my roommate. but my track record of kissing Teh Mens: very very poor. i believe i have a grand total of one (1) New Year's Kiss With Dude. ever. WTF. but! the evening was super fun, and we had a grand ol' time, and there are some hilarious photos, and BOY OH BOY am i over 2008 so 2009 was welcomed with open arms.

moving on to much more interesting topics (for you): yesterday was Day Of The Youngins, wherein i had TWO dates in one afternoon, all with gentlemen under the age of 26. first i went to coffee with a boy we'll call Mr. IT, and then i watched the Eagles/Vikings game with a boy we'll call Stretch, because he's 6'7". which, fyi, is WAY TALL. just saying.

Mr. IT: although only 25, he was refreshingly not-25-seeming. he didn't look really young, he didn't act noticeably immature, and he has a good job and is about to start his doctorate (!) in IT security. we had a very nice chat over coffee, right up until the part where he declared that i "didn't seem like a normal girl." when i asked him what that was supposed to mean, he explained that i liked sports and didn't like to shop. which... yeah, true enough. but it made me sort of suspicious - like, seriously dude? your worldview still includes all women getting manis and pedis each weekend after spending 4 hours at the mall talking about how our men were so obsessed with their team scoring a touchdown in the world series! teehee! i don't actually like to be categorized as "girly," but getting that just from the fact that i follow football seems a little hasty. but aside from that glitch, he seemed pretty good and if he emails i'll probably test drive him for a second date.

Stretch: this one was the lone CL contender from the Slow Day At Work posting last week. the googlestalking had produced his facebook profile for me to peruse, which suggested he was only 24. he made a reference to it being hard to be the only 25 year old working with a bunch of 40 year olds while we were out, though, so i don't know if he was rounding up to sound better to an older woman or what? in any event, we met at a bar to watch the eagles game since we're both big NY fans and wanted to scope the competition. i had a good time, but.. he's very young. for example: his roommate is a stoner, who called while we were at the bar to ask stretch to score some weed for him on his way home. i no longer have stoner roommates in my life, and i'm pretty ok with that fact.

he walked me back to the metro after the game was over, and after first offering his hand to shake (me, out loud: a HANDSHAKE? psh *goes in for hug*) hugged me back and gave me a kiss on the top of my head, because his head is still SO MUCH HIGHER than mine, even with me in heels. this is a very new experience for me, being that much shorter than a guy. it's... odd. i agreed to watch next week's eagles/giants game with him, in any event, because even if he is 12, he's still a giants fan, dammit. i'll need moral support for that game.

still to potentially come this week is the engineer, who called on new year's eve but i accidentally did not call back until today. i'd be sort of annoyed with me by now if i were him, though, so we'll see if he responds. so many men, so little time..