"I have been but little in," said Ninian hastily...

So, I chatted with the lady in question and arranged a date for Tuesday evening. No idea how this will go, especially as I feel terribly clumsy and awkward about what sorts of things to say and when, but she sounded glad I called and happy to make a date, so still positive overall.

I think one of the things that I do worst at in dating is chat. I'm not good at compliments--I get the impression I make too many of them. And I think maybe I sound too eager and hopeful. *sigh* This is all so difficult.

Another thing I suck at is compartmentalizing. I feel as if I should be able to take all the "I met this person and she's really cool and she seems to like me" stuff and store it in a drawer and go do other things. But instead I keep thinking about the person, recalling conversation to glean facts, wondering about her and what she's like, and so on. *more sigh*

In other news, C&M and I went out to the bookstore (for cards) and the hardware store (for a new snow shovel and birdseed). The birds are very happy about the birdseed! The juncos, doves, cardinals, a chickadee or two, and and a nuthatch have been bustling around eating away. Forty pounds of seed should last for a while! :-) It was funny: all the seed is kept on shelves in the outside yard of the store, and when I went back there to look, a huge flock of all sorts of birds rose out of the shelves and flew off.

OK, off for tea and a little telly before doing some chores.

Good golly. Bryan and Peter had warned me about some of the thrust of the new series, but it still hit home in a very visceral way. I can only imagine that this is going to be very controversial; I think BG has a fairly wide audience, and I don't imagine that all of them are going to be happy about the way the show is using current events.

In other news, DC lost another game--this is looking bad for the playoffs, IMO. On the up side, Bryan and I spent Saturday morning.afternoon gaming with a new fellow in the local Warhammer club who seems quite nice (and very talented--Peter, you are going to love some of his work!) And the chappie (Steve) is very enthusiastic about Flames of War; after a brief game, he really likes it and is getting an army soon.

Today I went off to the store to get a few games in, but none of the fellows I was expecting to see there were playing. So I came home, read, napped, exchanged email with a new romantic prospect, petted cats, read, and generally relaxed. I'm going to do one load of laundry and then go to bed.