Sonya Dines Out

I don't have a proper outfit post for y'all, because these low-quality selfies were the only pictures I managed to take. I do have a bit of news: I went on a date tonight! With a guy from OkCupid. I wrote a recap on Tumblr immediately after getting home, and I'm gonna post it here too, because it's the story behind me getting fancied up in a cute collar AND floral ruffles.

Basics: Korean food. I picked the restaurant. We split the bill. Roughly 1.33 hours.

He was nervous, which was kinda cute. And surprising, since I don't think of myself as intimidating.

He told me that I was more attractive than my pictures, and then asked if I did that on purpose, as some kind of weeding-out-the-shallow-ones strategy. (Lol, no.) He was also more attractive than his pictures, but I don't voice every weird backhanded compliment that occurs to me, so I didn't tell him that.

I forget why this came up, but he asked if I was a feminist and I was like, "Yeah," and then he said, "So I'm only paying for half of this bill, huh?" I think he was kinda joking--but mostly serious. We did end up "going Dutch", as I mentioned in the beginning.

He told me a little bit about his experiments with "hacking brain chemistry" to make himself more productive and outgoing. According to him it's been a success. (I have no idea what he was like before, so I can't comment.)

At the end of the date, when I was dropping him off at the train station, he said, "I don't know if it's better to ask for a second date now or send a message later." There was a bit of awkwardness, but I said yes to hanging out again. I was a little surprised that he seemed quite into me, because I didn't feel like we ~super clicked~ or anything, but who knows what he was thinking.

From this recap, it probably doesn't sound like a charmed encounter, but it was actually quite nice. It's just that the negatives/weird stuff are the only interesting parts...