It was a surprising date to be sure. In some ways, exactly what I expected, in some not. She's dealing with some issues I'm not sure I can help with and may hinder the prospect of us being a good fit for something more serious. She is a self avowed Yellow Vest so there's a few discussions I'm wary to go down with though so far I didn't stumble on anything I'd find really heinous (she's a pacifist, a feminist, believes in extending basic human respect to Macron or his wife and everyone, and all herrings I pulled & probed seemed to point she's not racist.). No love lost for "SJWs" but well... Glass houses and stones and all that. Vibe is more anarchist, very class-conscious, but "lacking" the classical ideological infrastructure or jargon. She's an autodidact, rational, a skeptic. She got the smarts and she sounds better read in some areas than me.
I mean really, she's not that far from my wheelhouse or comfort zone but there's still a gap between "cynical and fatalist nominal leftist" and "apolitical and utterly dillusioned with institutions". She seems willing, maybe even eager, to listen, respect and engage though.
I like her quite a bit and so far it started as a very stimulating interaction intellectually. We chatted and texted quite a lot in a few days, it's obviously reciprocal.
Seems we're not on the same pace with regards to getting physical, perhaps. But we started on good grounds about being open about what we were looking for (as far as you can really tell), I'm sure that's something we can and will discuss frankly. For the moment I'm still in the initial delight of clicking with someone and the build up. So long as the dates are great I can obviously wait it out a little longer.
Monday we should meet for several hours, we'll see how it goes.
