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So I have a pseudo date tomorrow. I am meeting a guy I’ve exchanged a handful of emails with for a quick drink tomorrow. Not having done this in a while I am not quite sure what to expect. I guess I should preface this with I got introduced to him via the site LinkedIn since he is friends with one of my sister’s former co-workers when she worked at the University of Michigan who I met briefly for a couple of hours the last time I went to visit her which was more or less a year ago. So how well does he know me? I would say not at all. But apparently my sister upon hearing of my latest dating fiasco and helping me through it decided she wanted to help me find a nice guy. (I dated a guy for about a month who said he was single when I asked him and who I actually really liked. But in actuality he was married with a three year old little girl who had no business dating me at all as I later found out after doing some detective work!!) So my sister’s former co-worker and now friend said he had a friend he knew from I believe the Peace Corps that lived in DC. She told me what she knew. I kind of wonder what she told her friend and how much this guy actually knows about me. Thinking I had nothing to lose I emailed him I believe through LinkedIn from what I recall and guessing that he would probably not take the initiative and email me. Fast forward two months later and having forgotten about it and just dismissing it my sister finds out that he did email me back the next day sounding kind of eager but it was directed to her to an email address that she rarely uses. She I guess forwarded it him and he just emails me directly and asked if I wanted to meet for a drink and somehow we decided on tomorrow at Piola in Virginia. I will be crossing the river and going to meet a guy I don’t know for drinks in Virginia! I am excited kind of but am afraid that it will go horribly. So I have no idea if this is a date or if we’re just checking each other out to see if there is potential for something or if this is strictly platonic.  He said he would pay for the first round of drinks if I would go into VA.  But in my head I was thinking aren’t you suppose to pay for all my drinks if this is actually a date? And he said he would be wearing brown shorts and flip flops which makes me think I should probably change out of my work clothes for fear of being over-dressed.  Is this drinks with the option of dinner or is this just drinks? I figured I’d just go ahead and meet him and get it over with since this has been two months delayed and he’s scheduled to be out of town for three weeks for work.  I am assuming that is true since he does do something that related to international work.  (And I can’t let one bad experience question everything that other people tell me right?) So I guess we will see how well this goes.  I talk to people all the time for my various jobs so I should be able to do this and it should be a piece of cake! However, why is part of me kind of just dreading it? If we do go down the let’s just hang out and see where it goes it always is very awkward for me for whatever reason since I have a tendency to want to characterize everything and so far my track record with guy friends is not very good since most of them end up trying to kiss me or make out with me and I am always caught off guard like a deer in headlights since I like to think I am just one of the guys.  Apparently I am occasionally delusional.

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