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February 21, 2004
The Dating "Game" 2
(The story of us… continued from yesterday)
So because of my technical prowess and intense emotional pineing I cleverly extract Christie’s email address from a general “hey what’s up” type of email sent from a common friend to a large number of x-Lters and therefore I start to email her. My emails are light and friendly with no real under current of emotion and to my surprise she answers with the same attitude. Hence starts 9 months where each of us play the cat-and-mouse game of emailing each other regularly at 10 day intervals.
Christie comes for Tony and Kirsten’s wedding. I stalk her and it produces a lunch with several others at the local Co Coast Chinese Restaurant.
Christie feigns at having something to do in the Twin Cities over Thanksgiving and through email invites my sister and I to “hang out”. Her and her younger brother come over to my parent’s house and we eat cookies and watch Gremlins.
We see each other at the Ignite conference in late December and sneak a fast food meal with a couple of common friends.
I am scared of her and my developing feelings.
February rolls around and I finally admit to Matt that I have feelings for Christie.
We keep emailing…
By the end of February I am shocked to get an email from Christie saying she will be going back to LT the next summer. I immediately get up and take an hour-long walk to ask God what in the world he is doing.
I trip through the next couple of months in bliss trying to minimize how much I look forward to her emails.
As I prepare for Lt in Orlando FL, and I feel the need to tell both Tim and Doug of my attraction. The both blow it off and assume that nothing will happen. (smirk)
In one of her last emails to me before the summer Christie asks me to pick her up at the airport and says that she assumes that we will be in the same project group.
I am so scared that I consider changing my name and moving to Kazakhstan…
(To be continued again)
Posted by paul at February 21, 2004 02:29 PM
Comments
Oh no, not again! I'm dying to know what happens...do they meet again or does Paul change his name to Пауль (Paul in Russian...presumed language of Kazakhstan).
Posted by: Angie at February 21, 2004 07:20 PM
don't worry I am sure that our hero gets the girl in the end!
Posted by: paul at February 22, 2004 03:17 PM