Got up early to head to the jazz orchestra. When I arrived it had been cancelled. Gutted I decided to give Val a ring to see if she wanted to meet me, at least then the journey wouldn’t be completely wasted. She contacted me a week ago on MSN. It was a pleasant surprise. When I suggested meeting up she seemed keen so I was hopeful. She couldn’t make it this morning though so we met later in Victoria at 4pm.
It was a difficult day logistically. I wanted to meet Val but Cor was in town too. I wanted to see what the Val situation was first before seeing more of Cor, so I put Cor on hold another day, or perhaps to later that evening if the Val meeting did not go well. There were some problems as I’ll explain later.
Anyhow, the Val meet up was okay. She can talk. Any anxieties I had about not keeping a conversation going were left long behind. All I had to do was touch a subject and she would run with it. It was good. What’s more English wasn’t even her first language, she was Italian. I knew her from the language college where I studied last year for a CELTA.
We talked for an hour and a half or so in the coffee shop. Mostly the conversation revolved around Italy, travels, the language college, people we knew there, our respective accommodation in London. At times I felt it was getting boring, certainly for pickup. I wanted to move things in a better direction but in the moment I wasn’t sure how. I was smiling and rewarding her when she laughed at one of my jokes. I was getting all the PUA stuff wrong. Well, most of it. And I didn’t escalate. Oh, I did manage to introduce sex into the conversation though and she went with it – I was talking about noises coming through my thin walls from my neighbour last night.
Cor texted me shortly before I met Val. There were some communication problems today evidently. She sent texts to say she was in town, I said I could meet her but she didn’t text back so I assumed that wasn’t on the cards today. And if it was on the cards then she should have been texting me back to make sure. But she didn’t, so I went with Val. Anyhow, she sent me a text to say I was “a pain” later on. Not sure how jokingly she meant it. I just ignored it and called her an hour later to see if she was still around. I made the mistake of explaining myself a bit. Dumb.
Anyhow, the Val meeting only lasted an hour and a half. She didn’t want to go somewhere else with me so I took that as an IOD. She didn’t seem to make an effort either and her breath was bad! Christ! So, that would seem to be pretty conclusive evidence that she only wanted to see me as a friend. But who knows, I was sure Cor only wanted to see me as a friend last time, but it turned out I was wrong.
Spent the evening alone which was a pity. I didn’t end up with either after having, for the first time in my life, so many options at the beginning of the day. Crazy.
Couldn’t sleep. Ended up watching “This Is England” on my laptop. I had mixed feelings about it.
