Friday, September 30, 2005
No Time To Lose
I'm sure we all knew this was coming. After yesterday was super-awesome, today would have to be a bit of a let down no matter what. After all, if everyday is a sunny day, then what's a sunny day?
I'm going to keep things very brief because I shouldn't even be typing this right now. I agreed to give a speech tomorrow and I need to finish writing it tonight. Of course, I'm still going to try and socialize tonight anyway, despite a looming deadline. It seems my planned rehabilitation of my procrastination habits will have to wait for another time...again.
Anyway, I met another girl via the Internet tonight. Somehow, I knew going into this it wasn't going to work. Our e-mails were really odd and almost entirely in Japanese. I felt like we agreed to meet just because we could but not because we really wanted to. Indeed, two days ago I thought she was trying to give me the brush off but that turned out to be a cultural misunderstanding.
Crap, I said I'd keep things brief and I'm taking forever to get to the point: we simply couldn't talk. She spoke Japanese really fast and even when she slowed her speech down I still couldn't understand what she was saying. English wasn't an option even though she majored in English in college. The whole evening was like one giant awkward silence. Eventually, I proposed we just scrap the whole thing and go back to our respective homes. She agreed (after about a minute of my stammering).
So I'm not going to dwell on it. It sucked, so it's over. Thankfully, I've got a busy evening and day ahead of me so I should forget about the whole thing by lunch tomorrow.
I'm going to keep things very brief because I shouldn't even be typing this right now. I agreed to give a speech tomorrow and I need to finish writing it tonight. Of course, I'm still going to try and socialize tonight anyway, despite a looming deadline. It seems my planned rehabilitation of my procrastination habits will have to wait for another time...again.
Anyway, I met another girl via the Internet tonight. Somehow, I knew going into this it wasn't going to work. Our e-mails were really odd and almost entirely in Japanese. I felt like we agreed to meet just because we could but not because we really wanted to. Indeed, two days ago I thought she was trying to give me the brush off but that turned out to be a cultural misunderstanding.
Crap, I said I'd keep things brief and I'm taking forever to get to the point: we simply couldn't talk. She spoke Japanese really fast and even when she slowed her speech down I still couldn't understand what she was saying. English wasn't an option even though she majored in English in college. The whole evening was like one giant awkward silence. Eventually, I proposed we just scrap the whole thing and go back to our respective homes. She agreed (after about a minute of my stammering).
So I'm not going to dwell on it. It sucked, so it's over. Thankfully, I've got a busy evening and day ahead of me so I should forget about the whole thing by lunch tomorrow.
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Does sound awkward...oh well. At least you're out trying to meet new people. Something you'll be able to laugh at some day!
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