AH, HA!
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now I wallow cuz I am totally unsure of wether or not it went well...
OK, the girls at Camille La Vie say that she is super shy... OK, understandable.
But this kind of shy is on a massive level.
THAT, or... she thinks I'm a total creep and going in her store to introduce myself all friendly and whatnot was totally invasive and she now thinks I'm a worthless creep...
Well, I won't go into details cuz they're boring, but Saturday night I saw her store manager walking through the hall and I flagged her down and chatted with her a bit.
At the end of the conversation she smiled and was all,
"You should stop by our store some time."
OK...
Well, after that (like 10 min) my girl and a friend of her's from the store walk past and do a lap around the mall and on the trip back she was all hella nervous and dropped some change and her ears went bright red!
Next day (Sunday) I was hoping she wasn't going to be working so I'd be off the hook and wouldn't have to make a move... but just when my buddy Chirag come into to work his 2-close we were discussing my game plan and she walked by the front of my store and was all dolled-up and made up and looking even MORE goregous than ever (which is basically impossible cuz she's UNBELIEVABLY, UNIMAGINABLY ENCHANTING!!!!).
I wasn't looking, cuz I was too shy, but Chirag says she had a triumphant kind of smirk on her face like she knew the score and she got all gussied up to kinda lure me into making a move cuz I'm too big of a coward to do it on my own.
Ah, well.
So I saw her assistant manager walking around the mall and I flagged her down and introduced myself and then asked,
"Hey, is that really cute girl with the dyed black hair, who always keeps it pulled back in a pony tail... is SHE working today?"
And she was all smiling and on the verge of giggle with joy while this was going on and she said,
"Yes. Yes she is."
I smiled.
"That's all I needed to know." And I walked away.
She walked two steps out our door, stopped, came back, and was all,
"Her name's Linzey, by the way. LINZEY!"
And I turned over my shoulder and said,
"Thanks."
Now, her Assistant manager has kinda been playing matchmaker and has been instrumental in informing me on everything about this girl (her age, her name, the fact that she IS single, etc.). The AM is also the only girl in the store Linzey seems to have a good repoir with.
So around 530pm I went in there and it was some hella awkward shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I strolled right in there, down the wood pannel path they have that leads through the store, strolled right up to her, she was in the back sweeping, and I stuck out my hand and said,
"Hi! I'm Erik!"
She smiled, which reassured me... it was the kind of smile that said,
"Finally!"
Or
"THIS is what I've been waiting for!"
Or
"Man. He ACTUALLY had the nerve to walk in here!"
But the rest was down hill.
She gave one word responses to all my covnersational questions, she either barely looked at me through the veil of her hair or she looked down at the ground or down at her broom and dust pan.
Shiiiiiiit!
I chatted with her manager a bit cuz she came out of the back room and seemed pleasantly surprised to see me.
I basically said,
"Look, you pass by my store every day and I never get a chance to get away and introduce myself so I'm doing it now!"
She kinda smiled and nodded to this.
And, when I saw the room was filling up with kerosene and I was holding a match, I said,
"Well, I can see you're trying to close, so I'll get out of your hair... Man! You can cut the air in here with a knife!"
And she laughed.
I can't tell if it was nervous, awkward laughter or genuin4e laughter but I got up out of there and when I was near the entrance (hands in my pockets, chagrined smile on my face) I could already hear the buzz of conversation among her and her managers beginning.
And that was that.
I then got some girl-advice from my buddy Alayna and she was all,
"Dude, I don't even know if she sounds worth it. She sounds kinda weird!"
But, whatever, dude.
I am determined to find out what goes on behind this girl's shy veneer.
DETERMINED!!!!!!!!!
And now today (V-Day) she is working and has not passed by my store ONCE.
Now, the escalator by her store is broken so, by rights, she would HAVE to walk by my store to go to the food court... but NO!
Her managers have walked by several times, though.
I've come to this conclusion:
If her managers stop walking by and coming in and she stops walking by my store I'll never bother her again.
If she keeps walking past my store then I'll keep trying and keep talking to her and take it as a good sign.
I just don't know, because I don't know her that well, if she thinks I'm a total creep and my going in her store was totally invasive and unwanted.
In which case; why did her manager's try and play matchmaker. She could have stopped them. She could have said,
"PLEASE STOP! Just lie and tell him I have a boyfriend and don't lead him on! I'm NOT interested!"
OR, and her co-workers did say she was super shy, she could just be so super shy that having a guy she likes walk into her store and bluntly introduce himself is just not within the realm of things she can comfortably handle and now she is a bit shaken and is timid and nervous...
I'd like to think it is the later.
I don't know, thoough.
But, I have the next two days off.
Got the Pro-Pain show in Chicago to help me take my mind off such things.
And then the next day I have the Social D show here in STL (maybe I'll see her there).
And this will give things time to cool off (if, in fact, they are red hot).
After which, time will tell.
But if nothing happens by early next week then I will flag one of her managers down and say,
"Hey, did I creep Linzey out? Does she hate me and my move was totally invasive? Is she ready to sign the restraining order? I thought I was being friendly by making the first move and being bold about it, but I guess I was wrong. What's up?"
And either they'll have good news for me or they'll just say,
"Yes. Don't ever bother her again."
And then I won't.
But it'll suck...
I thought this girl was gorgeous from afar but I just didn't know...
SHE IS UNEARTHLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She's got a pierced nose, two piercings on her bottom lip, and her hair was all dyed this copper, dried blood color with black underneathe!
Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, well.
To get my mind off this I'll talk about something else...
I'm reading Phjilip K. Dick's THE SIMULACRA and it rules!!!!!!!
Hilarious and as well written as anything I've read by him (even rivals some of my faves, like SCANNER DARKLY and DIVINE INVASION).
Also, they finally opened the Al Pacino/Jeremy Irons version of MERCHANT OF VENICE in St. Louis and I saw it Sunday night...
IT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right up there next to the Fishburn/Brannagh version of OTHELLO in my book of favorite Shakespeare movies!!!!!!
Totally true to the play, totally artful and beautifully shot and just an amazing piece of art!!!!
When Pacino gives the,
"if you prick us, do we not bleed?" speech I sat mesmerized!
I don't know if everyone else appreicated it, thoough.
So the next big DVDs I'm gonna get are gonna be THE MACHINIST, CONSTANTINE, and MERCHANT.
Joseph Fiennes was also exceptional and Jeremy Irons remains one of my favorite actors working today!
So tonight I am gonna go home and read and write a few pages (hopefully finish my script) and veg for the night, wake up when I feel like it, and then get my shit together and hit the road!!!!!!
Eat at some random sports bar when I get to Chicago, case the venue and relax until the show starts.
Oh, but the good thing is that I actually DIDN'T fuck up my hair when I redyed it...
It was hella messy and now I think I'll be better at it in the future, but it looks good and I am hella proud of myself for not being all fuckin' whimpy and convincing one of my lady friends to do the deed for me (I was gonna have Molly do it for me when I ventured to PA.).
It's all shiny, jet black.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now I wallow cuz I am totally unsure of wether or not it went well...
OK, the girls at Camille La Vie say that she is super shy... OK, understandable.
But this kind of shy is on a massive level.
THAT, or... she thinks I'm a total creep and going in her store to introduce myself all friendly and whatnot was totally invasive and she now thinks I'm a worthless creep...
Well, I won't go into details cuz they're boring, but Saturday night I saw her store manager walking through the hall and I flagged her down and chatted with her a bit.
At the end of the conversation she smiled and was all,
"You should stop by our store some time."
OK...
Well, after that (like 10 min) my girl and a friend of her's from the store walk past and do a lap around the mall and on the trip back she was all hella nervous and dropped some change and her ears went bright red!
Next day (Sunday) I was hoping she wasn't going to be working so I'd be off the hook and wouldn't have to make a move... but just when my buddy Chirag come into to work his 2-close we were discussing my game plan and she walked by the front of my store and was all dolled-up and made up and looking even MORE goregous than ever (which is basically impossible cuz she's UNBELIEVABLY, UNIMAGINABLY ENCHANTING!!!!).
I wasn't looking, cuz I was too shy, but Chirag says she had a triumphant kind of smirk on her face like she knew the score and she got all gussied up to kinda lure me into making a move cuz I'm too big of a coward to do it on my own.
Ah, well.
So I saw her assistant manager walking around the mall and I flagged her down and introduced myself and then asked,
"Hey, is that really cute girl with the dyed black hair, who always keeps it pulled back in a pony tail... is SHE working today?"
And she was all smiling and on the verge of giggle with joy while this was going on and she said,
"Yes. Yes she is."
I smiled.
"That's all I needed to know." And I walked away.
She walked two steps out our door, stopped, came back, and was all,
"Her name's Linzey, by the way. LINZEY!"
And I turned over my shoulder and said,
"Thanks."
Now, her Assistant manager has kinda been playing matchmaker and has been instrumental in informing me on everything about this girl (her age, her name, the fact that she IS single, etc.). The AM is also the only girl in the store Linzey seems to have a good repoir with.
So around 530pm I went in there and it was some hella awkward shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I strolled right in there, down the wood pannel path they have that leads through the store, strolled right up to her, she was in the back sweeping, and I stuck out my hand and said,
"Hi! I'm Erik!"
She smiled, which reassured me... it was the kind of smile that said,
"Finally!"
Or
"THIS is what I've been waiting for!"
Or
"Man. He ACTUALLY had the nerve to walk in here!"
But the rest was down hill.
She gave one word responses to all my covnersational questions, she either barely looked at me through the veil of her hair or she looked down at the ground or down at her broom and dust pan.
Shiiiiiiit!
I chatted with her manager a bit cuz she came out of the back room and seemed pleasantly surprised to see me.
I basically said,
"Look, you pass by my store every day and I never get a chance to get away and introduce myself so I'm doing it now!"
She kinda smiled and nodded to this.
And, when I saw the room was filling up with kerosene and I was holding a match, I said,
"Well, I can see you're trying to close, so I'll get out of your hair... Man! You can cut the air in here with a knife!"
And she laughed.
I can't tell if it was nervous, awkward laughter or genuin4e laughter but I got up out of there and when I was near the entrance (hands in my pockets, chagrined smile on my face) I could already hear the buzz of conversation among her and her managers beginning.
And that was that.
I then got some girl-advice from my buddy Alayna and she was all,
"Dude, I don't even know if she sounds worth it. She sounds kinda weird!"
But, whatever, dude.
I am determined to find out what goes on behind this girl's shy veneer.
DETERMINED!!!!!!!!!
And now today (V-Day) she is working and has not passed by my store ONCE.
Now, the escalator by her store is broken so, by rights, she would HAVE to walk by my store to go to the food court... but NO!
Her managers have walked by several times, though.
I've come to this conclusion:
If her managers stop walking by and coming in and she stops walking by my store I'll never bother her again.
If she keeps walking past my store then I'll keep trying and keep talking to her and take it as a good sign.
I just don't know, because I don't know her that well, if she thinks I'm a total creep and my going in her store was totally invasive and unwanted.
In which case; why did her manager's try and play matchmaker. She could have stopped them. She could have said,
"PLEASE STOP! Just lie and tell him I have a boyfriend and don't lead him on! I'm NOT interested!"
OR, and her co-workers did say she was super shy, she could just be so super shy that having a guy she likes walk into her store and bluntly introduce himself is just not within the realm of things she can comfortably handle and now she is a bit shaken and is timid and nervous...
I'd like to think it is the later.
I don't know, thoough.
But, I have the next two days off.
Got the Pro-Pain show in Chicago to help me take my mind off such things.
And then the next day I have the Social D show here in STL (maybe I'll see her there).
And this will give things time to cool off (if, in fact, they are red hot).
After which, time will tell.
But if nothing happens by early next week then I will flag one of her managers down and say,
"Hey, did I creep Linzey out? Does she hate me and my move was totally invasive? Is she ready to sign the restraining order? I thought I was being friendly by making the first move and being bold about it, but I guess I was wrong. What's up?"
And either they'll have good news for me or they'll just say,
"Yes. Don't ever bother her again."
And then I won't.
But it'll suck...
I thought this girl was gorgeous from afar but I just didn't know...
SHE IS UNEARTHLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She's got a pierced nose, two piercings on her bottom lip, and her hair was all dyed this copper, dried blood color with black underneathe!
Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, well.
To get my mind off this I'll talk about something else...
I'm reading Phjilip K. Dick's THE SIMULACRA and it rules!!!!!!!
Hilarious and as well written as anything I've read by him (even rivals some of my faves, like SCANNER DARKLY and DIVINE INVASION).
Also, they finally opened the Al Pacino/Jeremy Irons version of MERCHANT OF VENICE in St. Louis and I saw it Sunday night...
IT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right up there next to the Fishburn/Brannagh version of OTHELLO in my book of favorite Shakespeare movies!!!!!!
Totally true to the play, totally artful and beautifully shot and just an amazing piece of art!!!!
When Pacino gives the,
"if you prick us, do we not bleed?" speech I sat mesmerized!
I don't know if everyone else appreicated it, thoough.
So the next big DVDs I'm gonna get are gonna be THE MACHINIST, CONSTANTINE, and MERCHANT.
Joseph Fiennes was also exceptional and Jeremy Irons remains one of my favorite actors working today!
So tonight I am gonna go home and read and write a few pages (hopefully finish my script) and veg for the night, wake up when I feel like it, and then get my shit together and hit the road!!!!!!
Eat at some random sports bar when I get to Chicago, case the venue and relax until the show starts.
Oh, but the good thing is that I actually DIDN'T fuck up my hair when I redyed it...
It was hella messy and now I think I'll be better at it in the future, but it looks good and I am hella proud of myself for not being all fuckin' whimpy and convincing one of my lady friends to do the deed for me (I was gonna have Molly do it for me when I ventured to PA.).
It's all shiny, jet black.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!