Cruel Fate

Finals ended and I flew home for Christmas break. I kind of left things open with both Hott Erik & Austin Strait - I hadn't seen either of them since the snuggling incident, and I only talked to Austin a few times while we were both in our home state for the holidays (too far away from each other to feasibly meet up). My hometown is a very small and very suburban. I didn't have a car, so I was extremely bored. I spent 80% of my time on my laptop. Two interesting developments happened over the break tho:

First: SPP thought it was a good idea to reinitiate contact via dirty texting. We hadn't seen each other since the week after Thanksgiving. We spent multiple nights sending each other quite naughty messages. It makes me wonder if he plans on reinitiating in-person contact as well...

Second: I met a guy in my hometown. That never happens. I went to the one local bar with some buddies the night after Christmas, and saw a cute, tall guy who looked familiar (I'm very tall for a girl, so height is always attractive to me). I introduced myself, and he remembered me as my sister's little sister, and I remembered him once he told me his name. He was a Senior in HS when I was a Freshman - I'd always thought he was attractive, but never interacted with him (what, with me being a lowly freshman and all). Nothing atypical about what happened: we talked some that night and there was a definite spark. He facebooked me the next day, and we exchanged some messages.

Now he lives halfway across the country in my home state, where he's working on a masters in acting. So Actor Mark and I have continued our correspondence via online chatting and a bit of phone time. I have a huge crush on him, plain and simple. And he seems extremely interested in me. But there's no near-future plans for either of us to end up in the same city. So we both feel a bit doomed to continue talking, and yet we keep doing it. He's so refreshingly honest and open and frank about the fact that he finds me attractive. He told me it's because he feels like there's nothing to lose and everything to gain when it comes to me. Who knows...maybe we can find a way to see each other sometime in the nearish future and see if there is indeed something between us like there seems to be. I know that I think about him more than I should for someone I've spent no more than 30 minutes face-time talking to.

At the least, my single life in DC is still hilarious enough to keep me distracted some. :)