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Does a love potion count as a drug?

love potion?

do tell

I just mean I would be optimistic if I had a love potion

The Czech Girl asked me if I wanted to come to Battle of the Bands tonight. But it is flatmates birthday.

She keeps asking you out!

certainly sounds positive to me! Shemust have liked you...

Go Xan!

Go Xan. That is an order. Enjoy yourself.

And now comes the most important bit:

Let her see that you're enjoying yourself.

so everybodys currently happy then?

I am..if happy covers about to start chewing my nails off with nerves about the weekend

Well, I can tell you a story that might make you smile...

I was out for a drink after work with a mate of mine last November, and met a few of his workmates in the process. Including a rather attractive and sparky girl that I was getting on rather well with, and we were flashing our eyes at each other a bit, as you do, and I thought "Hello!". After we left the pub I said "She's nice, isn't she?" to my mate and he - who happens to be gay, and usually has very accurate gaydar - said yes, but she's a lesbian.

So I thought no more of it. Bumped into her again a week last Saturday, at a party in a bar with my mate for another of his work friends. And she was very complimentary about my dancing, and we were chatting away for a bit and getting on very well again, and I thought to myself "Such a shame she's a lesbian".

Said as much to my friend at the bus stop afterwards. At which point he saw fit to mention that he was wrong, he'd got hold of the wrong end of the stick and she wasn't a lesbian at all. Aaarrgghhh!

If I'd known, of course, I'd have been much more responsive in the bar and asked for her phone number and asked her out. But I didn't, so I didn't. And my friend doesn't know her that well (obviously!) and she doesn't work at the same place any more. So he couldn't get me a phone number, only a home email address. So I asked her out by email, which isn't exactly ideal, and a week and a half later, I still haven't had a reply.

Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?

Well so long as you didn't say 'Sorry, I'd have asked before but I thought you were a lesbian...'

She might not check her home email very often so don't give up hope yet.

did you tell her your friend had told you she was gay?

Sorry, I did smile at your story, No 6.

Hope you find her again. Perhaps she didn't get your e-mail, or it landed in her spam file.

No, I thought it best not to mention it! Thought maybe better it was something to laugh about if we do ever meet up again?

I'm hanging on to that hope about the home e-mail, Kelli... but the longer it goes on the less likely it seems. She's leaving for South America in four weeks, too!

I'm pretty sure she liked me - what worries me is that I might not have been responsive enough to her in the bar due to certain mis-held beliefs, and it might not have come across that I liked her.

Great story Number Six. And I agree with Kelli, you might want to leave out the lesbian part from conversations. Tell your friend to get his gaydar tuned.

The Czech Girl asked me if I wanted to go to the second half of Battle of the Bands tonight, and then go out dancing afterwards. Surely I'm doing something right. And it would seem my attempts at dancing hasn't scared her Go Xan

Also met a nice, friendly Italian girl at the flatmate's party last night.

Xan, that's *wonderful*.



>>nice, friendly Italian girl<<



And now they start pouring in!

Well done Xan

You wait ages for one, then three come along at once.

Careful of those Italians... Feisty little minxs.

Had a pretty interesting night with my little Italian a coupla days back. Ive got a few more ideas about what might be going on in her head. We did f*ck this time, and spent a very nice morning lie in together listening to music...
Well, if nothing else Ive got an open invitation to go holiday to her flat in Venice, when she goes there for a year in the summer.

I really am enjoying the challenge here...

Un'altro piccola Italiana? Ed anche una Veneziana? Quando tu vuoi un po di avviso, parlo con me, capo!

Which means?

Another little Italian girl? And from Venice as well? If you want a bit of advice, have a word with me, guv!