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This past week was quite interesting.

I'm usually not someone that gets much attention from the menfolk...at least not in terms of flirtation. But I was sitting at All Saints getting some tea and planning to read, when this guy Joe I knew comes up and asks me how I'm doing. I haven't seen him in 2 years, and we ended up talking for 2 hours! I thought it went really well.

We had a little date last Saturday night, which was really chill--just watching The Princess Bride and drinkin' a little beer at his place. He said that he would be MIA for a few days because of school and tests he was going to have to take, so I didn't hear from him again until Wednesday. I couldn't pick up my phone when he called because I was in my prayer group with some friends. I called back twice and left messages, but I didn't hear from him until Friday when I was shopping with Kate. By the time he called me, I had already made plans (if you wanna date me, you're going to have to call me earlier or else I'm gonna have plans already!). So we kinda made plans to hang out this Saturday sometime.

Friday night was a blast. I went shopping with Kate for clothes for work. I absolutely abhor shopping because everything makes me feel fat. That was still pretty much the case, but Kate helped me find some great stuff. I really like her taste. :) After shopping, we got some veggies and cake from Publix and met up with Lindsey, Lois, and Carla to eat dinner and watch The Royal Tenenbaums. I had never watched it before! It was really good. I told Joe that I was watching it, and he said that he hated Wes Anderson movies. Red flag #3 (#1: he's not a Christian, so automatically we're not going to have a big piece of our life in common; and #2: he seemed really self-centered and he bragged a lot when we talked for the 2 hours...humility is much more attractive to me).

Saturday was great. I got to have breakfast at Waffle House with my roomie Jen. We went to Dollar General and the library, and brought home some movies she had to watch for class. We watched Papillon together, with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. Then I had to go to get my hair cut at Aveda. She did a fantastic job! Then when I was leaving, the sky opened and we had the worst rainstorm we'd had in a long long long time. I decided to drive a couple one-way roads, but I got to a point on Gadsden where there was a sign that said: Road Subject to Flooding. And, sure enough, there were trashcans floating and everything--a big truck beside me went thru it, but I knew I would flood my car for sure. So I turned onto Third or something like that, got onto Monroe, and then almost flooded my car by turning onto Thomasville. But luckily I remembered something my friends Becky and Todd taught me--as long as you are keeping exhaust coming out of the pipe, water can't come in. So I just kept pushing on the gas and I made it through! My adrenaline was pumping, I was totally freaked out. Anyway, I went to meet my friend Alison (from work) at the Coffee Pub. The weather was really cool to watch, but the chairs outside were too wet to sit on, so we hung out on the couch with our coffees. We talked for THREE HOURS. She's a really cool lady. Then, I had to go to dinner with Mary, Debbie, Debbie's bf, and Mike. I hadn't seen Mary, Debbie and Mike in so long! We ate at Sahara, a Greek/Lebanese restaurant. Delicious and tons of fun. :) After that, I still hadn't heard from Joe, so I called to leave a message, but I made plans to go see Sarah Mac Band play at the Warehouse. I got to talk to my friend Katie for a little bit, and that was cool. Joe finally called, he said he didn't really feel like going to a show, so he suggested going to All Saints. Good enough for me.

So we met up, and had a pretty good start to the chat. He just had a ken-po test, something-or-other, and did really well. So that's cool. I don't really think he asked me what I'd been up to...I guess he just didn't really care (self-centered, ya know). Anyways, I don't remember how it came up, but I really and truly don't think I brought it up: evolution vs. christianity.

To be continued...