So...another story.

Ha. Another situation has developed. I probably sound really wishy-washy with my emotions, but...yeah. I don't know what to make of it.

So in the past week I've been on three different dates, thanks to Craig's List. Ha. On Friday night whilst hanging out with Brittany I decided on a whim to just post a harmless ad on that site, seeing if anyone wanted to hang out on a strictly friendly level, and to my surprise I got quite a few responses. I ended up meeting with one guy on Sunday afternoon for coffee, which was nice (albeit a purely friendly encounter, no attraction whatsoever. Just a nice guy and we had some intelligent conversation, which is always appreciated). Then Monday afternoon had lunch with the second guy. He's extremely cute, very laid back guy...and yes he is 28. By far he's the most attractive of the three, and I had a good time with him, but I don't see anything really going there. We are going to have dinner on Friday night, but again I doubt anything will progress from there aside from being friends.

Then last night I met up with the third guy. And this is where the interesting situation comes about. First of all, he's 17. He'll be 18 next month, so it's not all creepy pedophile-like. But still, he is in high school (senior at Valencia) and high school kids can be a giant headache if you've been away from that environment for three years now.

However, I was pleasantly surprised at how unexpected the date turned out. We met up at Starbucks, and I was anticipating hanging out for an hour or so, he'd probably be the annoying 17-year-old that I was expecting, and I would just go home. We ended up staying at Starbucks for about an hour and a half, then drove over to Central park for another two hours and just walked around and talked.

For one, he is much different from the type of guy I was expecting. He's a bit quiet, but he's got a certain wit about him, and definitely seems much more mature than his age would suggest. Number two, on the outside he's absolutely NOTHING like the kind of guys I'd typically go for, but he is cute in his own way. I mean the kid had plugs in his ears- could you get any farther from Mark's usual all-American clean cut boy? But by the end of the night I was intrigued by him, and admittedly haven't quite been able to get him out of my head all day today. It's bizarre, it's not what I expected, but at the same time it feels nice.

Anyway, that's all for now. We'll see what happens.