I just had an interesting conversation with a gal I'm currently seeing...

Her: Maybe I'll open a singles mixer business for awkward science types.
Me: They are done from time to time. I never thought to attend one, however.
Her: HA! You don't have to! Women flock to you!
Me: Wha?
Her: You heard me you stud. ;-) :-P
Me: Dunno if I really believe that.
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Lately I've been feeling much reduced social anxiety all around.   I've described this as truly not caring what others thought about me.   If they had a positive response to me, "Great!".   If they have a negative response to me, "Their loss ( Read more... )

I've gotten myself into an unusual (for me) emotional state for the last several weeks.   To a great degree I've stopped caring what girls think of me.   If they respond positively, it's a bonus.   If they respond negatively, it's their loss.   I've known this for years as an intellectual concept, but now it seems the emotional/feeling parts of my ( Read more... )

I'm 35 years old and in the long term, I'd like to have kids.   I'm single and it is somewhat difficult for a single guy to have kids.   Girls my age are already running up against the clock with respect to having kids and even if I met 'the girl' today, it would be a few years before having kids with her would be an option.   This leads to the ( Read more... )

Over the span of my life, I've gotten used to people asking me variations of, "How/why do you know that?In high-school I was known to be the biology guy.   In Bio2 I would sit at the back of class and fall asleep most days.   One day I arrive in class to find we're going to have an exam.   I went through the exam once, noting two questions were ( Read more... )

I decided to walk to school today.   I didn't pay sufficient attention to the weather forecast and so I got rained on for much of my walk ( Read more... )

OkCupid just suggested I might be interested in the post-doc I work with.   This was slightly unsettling to me, perhaps in part because I'd already mentally flagged her as someone I have to be careful around because she is very expressive in a way I respond to ( Read more... )

I don't like feeling sad.   I don't like feeling angry.   I don't like feeling taken advantage of.   I don't like feeling broken.   These are too common experiences in my life when I'm alone.   They're also too common experiences in my life when I'm not alone.   The commonality is not having sufficient (or any) emotional support ( Read more... )

One of my roommates has decided to have a child.   Decided in the sense of, "Whoops, the girlfriend is pregnant ( Read more... )

I just met my ex-gf's new fiancé.   I had recently found myself re-evaluating my rationale to leave her and coming (again) to the conclusion that it was the right thing to do.   They are a much better match than she and I ever were and I am really glad for it, but there is still the odd sense of having been kicked in the stomach.   There didn't ( Read more... )