Relationship Minutiae
I tweeked my profile a bit, adding "friends' relationship minutiae" under my interests, because I realized that subject occupies about 90+% of our conversations.
:-p
Interesting dilemma. Some of you may know about my "stealth seduction" scheme to date - without his knowledge - my good-looking German teacher with whom I have absolutely nothing in common (our "conversations" consist of just a whole lotta awkwardness). I was very pleased with the cleverness of the scheme:
"I'm afraid I can't make your office hours. Do you think we could meet some other time to read German...like over a beer?"
Damn pimpin! I managed to (a) ask him out without asking him out, (b) get extra help with my German, and (c) feel less bad about being an audit by buying my instruction time in beers.
Anyways, the story took a boring turn because of finals, and the awkwardness, and all that. Before the semester ended, I gave him a translation of some German I needed for my paper, and asked him to double-check it. He must have forgotten, because I got an email from him just now apologizing for it, and adding, "I hope I can make it up to you next semester."
Doesn't that seem like a leading remark? I feel like I'm supposed to read into it.
The question is how to best take advantage of it. My first instinct - the polite instinct - was to assure him that it was no problem at all, that he need not apologize. Then my pimp instinct informed me that that was just plain foolish. Then my studious instinct told me that I should at least use this opportunity to enlist a reliable - say, weekly - German tutor.
Right now I think I'm sticking with the studious instinct. I'm not entirely comfortable saying, "I know how you can make it up to me: how about dinner and drinks?" - wink! But on the other hand, no need to be overly polite, because you can never have too many irons in the fire, or German tutors for that matter. Everyone in my field knows that German is the bitchiest part...it'd be nice to be hooked up with a knowledgeable source.
Anyways, I'm interested in hearing feedback from my hos, since I'm not on AIM so much anymore. In particular, I'm wondering if I should read into the "leading remark"; reminder that the dude has blown me off before, so he may just have an exaggerated sense of politeness, without any actual interest in being friends/+.
:-p
Interesting dilemma. Some of you may know about my "stealth seduction" scheme to date - without his knowledge - my good-looking German teacher with whom I have absolutely nothing in common (our "conversations" consist of just a whole lotta awkwardness). I was very pleased with the cleverness of the scheme:
"I'm afraid I can't make your office hours. Do you think we could meet some other time to read German...like over a beer?"
Damn pimpin! I managed to (a) ask him out without asking him out, (b) get extra help with my German, and (c) feel less bad about being an audit by buying my instruction time in beers.
Anyways, the story took a boring turn because of finals, and the awkwardness, and all that. Before the semester ended, I gave him a translation of some German I needed for my paper, and asked him to double-check it. He must have forgotten, because I got an email from him just now apologizing for it, and adding, "I hope I can make it up to you next semester."
Doesn't that seem like a leading remark? I feel like I'm supposed to read into it.
The question is how to best take advantage of it. My first instinct - the polite instinct - was to assure him that it was no problem at all, that he need not apologize. Then my pimp instinct informed me that that was just plain foolish. Then my studious instinct told me that I should at least use this opportunity to enlist a reliable - say, weekly - German tutor.
Right now I think I'm sticking with the studious instinct. I'm not entirely comfortable saying, "I know how you can make it up to me: how about dinner and drinks?" - wink! But on the other hand, no need to be overly polite, because you can never have too many irons in the fire, or German tutors for that matter. Everyone in my field knows that German is the bitchiest part...it'd be nice to be hooked up with a knowledgeable source.
Anyways, I'm interested in hearing feedback from my hos, since I'm not on AIM so much anymore. In particular, I'm wondering if I should read into the "leading remark"; reminder that the dude has blown me off before, so he may just have an exaggerated sense of politeness, without any actual interest in being friends/+.
posted by Rex at 2:28 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah I realize that a bulk of my time is spent talking about relationships. I think it consumes my thoughts b/c I haven't conquered it yet (i.e. gotten some wonderful guy to fall in love w/ me and marry me). I'm obsessive like that! I get it from my mom who probalby won't stop talking about med school admissions until I finally matriculate. Then, lord knows what she'll move on to.
ANYWAY about the German prof. Well from my experience last weekend (HAHA), Germans love it when you spend time to degrade them. Its like a HUGE turn on or something. So yeah, harnass your inner bitchiness!
Ah...you mean like the Germans' Scheisse porn? ;-)
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