That was longer than I expected.
So all in all I think it went pretty well. I'm super critical of myself so I'll probably never think I did awesome. And I KNOW I messed up in ONE specific thing that I knew was happening but still fucked it up. I'll explain in a bit.
We met at the theater and saw the movie. It was mediocre and was mostly a time waster. whatever. We then drove down to a Japanese restaurant cuz the Thai place was closed. Ate there are talked about the movie, movies, school, work, etc etc. stuff. I think I excelled at that and didn't allow many awkward moments.
Then from there she weirdly took charge. My inexperience really shined through here. She suggested going to a coffee shop so we drove down to Barnes and Noble, at something to drink and wandered around the store talking about books and stuff. I enjoyed that.
So here's my mistake. When we left the store she said she would invite me to her place but it was a mess. At no point did I imply anything of the sort and she basically brought it up. Again my inexperience was palpable. I retorted back that mine was probably equally a mess and then moved on to suggesting some place else we could go. In retrospect... hell, in currentspect I knew I fucked up. But again, my inexperience and I'll admit, fear took over.
We were going to hang around a hobby store but they were closed. Instead we spend some time in her car comparing our music to each other. I actually got a pretty good band out of it.
Then we drove down to the water front and hung around by the water continuing to talk about movies and her life and goals etc. We got to nerd out in our own ways. Then when it started to get dark and cold we down back to my car.
Here's the only real big awkard moment. I'm terrible at ending things and saying goodbye. I shook her hand. But thankfully I'm completely shameless and was able to turn it into a joke which we both laughed about. She then offered a hug and we parted ways with the thoughts of a second date mentioned.
A roughly 7 hour date. Even she mentioned she didn't expect to be out as long as we were.
As I said. I think it went well. Not perfect. I made mistakes but I think I did decent enough. I kept conversation going and allowed her to talk about herself. However I never took charge and allowed her to basically lead me around. I think in the specific context of me being new to the city allowed that to be somewhat OK.
Tomorrow I'll be busy all day so I'll probably wait until Tuesday to contact her. Unless she contacts me, which has happened. We'll see.
