So because I can't really go out every night, two weeks ago I started some daygaming.

A first I choose the nearest Starbucks as my lair. I started it on Thursday. That day I had to much AA and approached no one, but I told myself it's ok, next day I'll get more into it. So as I went there on Wednesday it was quite full, so I just asked a HB6 if it was ok to sit at her table, she agreed and kept studying, after a while I just ask her, what she is studying for and we strike up a conversation, it goes well. On Thursday I'm there early in the morning and snatch myself the best place in the whole cafeteria. Some minutes later a HB7 asks If she could sit at my table. I tell her, sure she can and that it's the best place there, to which she agrees and stretches in the sun, but it didn't quite start a conversation. A few moments later some HB8 walks up and asks me how to go on the internet there. I was using my laptop, but at the time didn't know they had free internet there. As I ell her I don't really know, HB7 jumps up and shows the internet flyer to HB8, which leaves afterwards, But I start conversing with HB7 talking about this and that, but as always I sometimes need my interview-type questions to keep things going. As I need to go she gives me a sad face, as I didn't ask her number, in retrospect maybe I should have asked for it. On Friday I meet nobody at Starbucks. But I keep up my good posture and walk around city for some time, at this point I don't think that I will talk so some girl today. But well, I see some tourists from my home-country, talking about one of the local scams, and I just go over and strike up a conversation. We talk for a while and after, we part ways. On my way home I build myself a little paper-plane, which is getting interesting looks from the people around me, I think it worked the same as having a fuzzy hat or eyeliner. So, as I'm searching for a good spot to let my plane fly a HB7, that I just walked by, comes up behind me and asks me, if I'm American. I tell her that I'm not (while hiding that I'm highly offended by that assumption ;P) and ask her why she would think that. She answers: "I don't know, you just had that kind of look on your face." Ok, so my facial expression actually gets people to talk to me. this is really cool, I experienced that happening again some more times after that. So, she is on her way to the supermarket and we chat a little, but somehow her stream of words kinda confuses me and at some point the conversation dies and I say goodbye.

At the weekend nothing really happens game-wise, just some flirting with the girls in the groups I went out with and nothing more interesting.

On Monday in the usual Starbucks, some HB8.5 sits in front of me, I try to strike up a conversation 3 Times she always answers nicely and doesn't seem in any way bothered by me but somehow I'm unable to get a conversation going. I think that I wasn't able to show that I'm sufficiently high value. At this point I decide to get myself deeper into conversation threading. So I went to the next park and wrote down the question-answer situations that didn't work and start to find things, that I could have said in those situations. I think doing this really helps, I'll keep this up until I think I'm perfect with my conversations. So as I'm done I somehow decide to walk up to that 3set near me and ask them to rate the responses that I found. I think they found it interesting and funny what I did and I had a really interesting conversation with them and when I left they told me I should come and find them again in the park, if I'd like to. Now on Thursday, I'm pretty sure I made another approach, but I seem to be completely unable to remember, seems like it wasn't too important then, doesn't it? ;) On Wednesday when I was in the train back home, I noticed a cute HB7.5 as she was playing with her fingers on her textbook, so I went straight ahead and asked her if she played an instrument, she blushed, laughed and agreed, I asked her one more question but as I hardly understood the response I just went ahead and sat myself right next to her. At this point I feel the look of all the guys around us on my back. Feelsgoodman. We have a really nice conversation and I can see that some of my previous threading training already started to pay of. As we are about to part ways I ask for her number, she shortly hesitates and then tells me she'd better give me her Facebook. After that, I don't know why, we decide to put it on paper and as she wants to put her Facebook on it, I decide at a whim that I'm giving her my Facebook. I don't know why but somehow something went wrong at that point, she'd almost given me her number but then everything went different. Needless to say she hasn't added me .

I think that was kinda when things generally hit bottom. The following days I didn't do any more approaches yesterday I went out, solo, because the people I usually go out with aren't here over the holidays. I somehow got pulled into a group of football fans where I didn't have that much fun, needless to say that it was a sausage-fest. So I went home early ... I usually never do this!

Soo right now I'm on a plateau, I don't plan on staying here for long so today I'm going out again (in about one hour actually). Maybe you guys have some tips how to get over it.

Edit: I kinda cut the end short, I need to get ready to go out.