Oh, if only I knew

Do women really think that playing "hard to get" is the best way to pique my interest?

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The Dating Game (and game it is, I'm convinced): So, being the social butterfly that I am (and I'll ask the peanut gallery to shut their traps), I've been on a couple of dates in the last few weeks. One of the women didn't particularly impress me. One didn't, initially, but I found myself more attracted through the course of the date.

So what happened, Ryan?

I'm sure that you can guess: the one that didn't attract me was attracted to me. And I told her that I didn't see anything other than friendship (was that heartless or cruel or mean?). I haven't heard from her since. Since we only met once, and since I got the impression that she only wanted me for the relationship, I'm not chuffed. I had lunch with the other one a week ago. My first snap impression was that I'd seen better looking women. But since my sense of physical attraction is rather tightly wound with the intellectual & emotional and I thought her smart, funny & a good conversationalist, I thought she looked damn good when she was smiling or laughing. We hugged at the end of the date. I've called her once (left a message) & emailed her once since. No response. So my questions: were I to push harder, that would be creepy, right? Is she interested & playing hard-to-get, or is she simply not interested? How the feck can I tell the difference? Should I be willing to put up with the bullshit games? you just answered your last question, methinks...

I'm certainly not the most direct person when it comes to expressing feelings, wants & needs, but the older I get the more I appreciate those who are direct. They, at least, have the courtesy not to waste anyone's time with bullshit games. Eh. But they sometimes step all over people's feelings! True. Isn't that a good thing, though? The recipients get experience dealing with such feelings, number one, and number two, the people that get involved with those who speak directly always know where they stand, and they don't get jerked around, carrying some false hope, unable to move on. Isn't there some positive in that?

Music: I got XM radio. It's seriously cash. I got it solely because I wanted to listen to college football (they carry ACC, Big Ten & Pac-10 college sports...well, football & men's basketball). But I got hockey, music, talk, news & all sorts of good stuff. So that's a few bucks a month well spent.

Also, you know that Jaguar commercial for the S-Type that has that song with the slogan "Can You Resist?" (yes, I can...it's a Jag, for heaven's sake!)
So it's called "Battle Without Honor or Humility". Hm. Good song, though, and those songs on the album (I bought it impulsively from iTunes) that I've listened to are good.

Zuletzt: 35-7. Take that, Cowboys! First they stun them in Texas on the night that Aikman, Smith & Cokehead (err, Irvin) get inducted into the Cowboys Ring of Honor or whatever, then they deliver a beatdown on a silver platter today in front of 90,000 fans. Hell yeah. We want Dallas! Redskins Radio actually played "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" between the final whistle & the postgame show. That was so awesome. Now bring on the feckin' Giants! We'll bitch-slap Mister-I-Haven't-Won-A-Big-Road-Game Eli Manning.