All my exes live in Texas

Well, not really, but who cares? When in Rome...wear a Stetson?

So yeah, I'm in Houston, Texas right now, and I couldn't be more excited about leaving for New Orleans in the morning. I'm not saying that all people from the Lonestar state are closed-minded and bigoted, but let me reenact a little conversation we had with the host at last night's homestay. We were talking about the voting for tax cuts in Florida being the cause for the loss of 200 employees at FSU. Somehow this got us onto the presidential race and this man driving the Ford F-350 with the gun rack featuring 4 very expensive shotguns said this phrase--"Barack Obama, that fudge-packing homo"....! Yeah, so I quickly decided that I would not utter another word that night, lest he find out that I'm also a fudge-packing homo, pull one of his shotguns from his truck, and have some good ol' fashioned hate crime! Bring on New Orleans and culture I can get into (a.k.a drunk-a-drunk).

Touring

So, I leave tomorrow with my choir to go on tour. Tour in the past has been to national conventions where we sang for the largest choral audiences and all that schmaltz. Yeah, it used to be cool (I guess...) until this year. We're going to New Orleans and Houston/Waco. Dumb. I mean, yay for two days in NOLA with freedom in the evenings. Hmm...college students in NOLA with free time? Drunk!

Anyway, I bought a cute shirt today from American Eagle and a great pair of Khakis that make my ass look great. The end.

Good Bye Norma Jean

So, it's been almost a week (actually 5 days) since the night weeks of flirting culminated in. I've had moments of "Oh god, what if it's a one night stand?" but then I think of all the reasons not to worry. One, he and I share two of the same best friends and hang out with them on a regular basis. Two, you don't flirt with someone for that long, have conversations with the aforementioned best friends about how to go about making a move just for one night. And three, the intensity that night had wasn't just light-hearted fun. How often do people spend an hour and a half slowly building up to the ultimate goal? I've had one-night stands and casual fun, none of which have ever been that loaded before. Granted, maybe he's just an intense lover. But I think there's more. I guess we'll find out when we're both back in town together on Friday.

Anyway, so much has happened since that Sunday night. I've had 4 finals which I feel solid about. None of them were "A" quality, but I'm fine with that. I'm sure I got the results equitable to the work I put in studying, which was minimal. But I was preparing for far more important things (like finally spending the night!) like my recital! I gave it, and it was pretty decent. I wouldn't televise it or anything, but I'm glad with the results and so much more glad it's over.

And finally, I went to see Elton John today!!! We made a whole day trip out of it. My bestie, gal-pal, and myself. We went to the beach and laid out for a few hours which was wonderful. She and I did the hip-hop dance we learned in hip-hop class at the gym 2 weeks ago and people cheered! Then we packed up and went to The DOCK, the bar/restaurant right up the shore 5 steps, haha. Yay for happy hour! Then we were going to walk on the pier, but they charged admission?!? Yeah, so we just went to get dinner.

We stopped at a seafood place that I forget the name of now. It looked like a good hole-in-the-wall kinda place. But that was a facade! We got the menu and it was soooooo expensive, we got up and left immediately. I've never done that before. So, we crossed the street (very perilous) and went to Panda Chinese Buffet. Um, hello--shushi included? Yeah, that had to happen.

Then we went and saw Elton perform and it was the most amazing concert I've ever been to. For a 61 year old Brit, he is doing a hell of a job. He sounded great and put on an amazing performance. I'd describe it, but that's difficult. Let's just say it was 2.5 hours of awesome.

Finally

That's all I have to say without getting to graphic. We both came up with an equally paper-thin excuse for me to come over and have to spend the night. And then we kissed and went from there. Let's just say I'm smiling now. The End.

What is the proper resonse?

So, the going out tonight that was supposed to happen, didn't. Bummer- I know. So, I asked him if he still had any plans and he texted, "I have a paper to finish tonight. You're welcome to come watch if you'd like ;)". How the hell do you respond to that? I don't know if he was kidding or serious. I'm not sure what to think. If he was kidding and I responded, "Sure, I'll be there in 10!" I look like an ass. If he was serious, then he's seriously getting to the point of thin excuses to hang out (previous have been: movie night being moved from my gal-pal's to his place even though he doesn't have a T.V and my she does. Inviting me over to steal some of his music. Etc...).

So, I responded, "While I'd love to come and distract you from your paper, I'd hate to be the reason you fail." Correct response? It was suggestive enough that if his text was serious, mine answered fairly equally, but if he was joking, it should come off as a flippant response.

I don't know. I SUCK at this. I need something to happen by Monday night, because he leaves on Tuesday for a friend's wedding, and by the time he gets back, I'm on choir tour. That's two weeks of being apart and that might be too much at this stage. I don't know. Maybe we'll get to hang tomorrow. I might just be like, "I'm really interested in you, and you should kiss me right now."

How to say it

So, I'm really into one of the guys in my group of friends. I'm pretty sure he's into me as well. Everyone else in the group constantly rags on me for flirting all the time. My Gal-pal weeks ago asked "So, are you and he in love yet?" WHAT? Seriously. All of them are just waiting for one of to make a move. He's over 2 years older than me, so I've kinda been letting him decide. But now I'm pretty sure I'm done waiting for him to make a move. According to my Gal-pal, he's really indecisive, so he may want to make a move and then just chicken out. She put it this way to friends at dinner after he had gone home (after berating me for not following him out!). "They're two boys who are totally being complete wusses about asking each other out!"

So, I guess I'm going to do it. Everyone's so sure he wants me as much as I want him. Even I can tell he's flirting with me. He wasn't gonna come hang out the other night, but I invited him and suddenly he wasn't so tired! Um, hello? Then after he left, he texted me the next 20 minutes about how glad he was that he came and "thanks for inviting me." So, I'm just not sure how to do it. I've not one to beat around the bush since I suck at subtlety. Well, we're all going out tonight. I'll see if a chance presents itself.