Holy jesus. I'm 26 and it's my first date since high school. I hooked up a lot in college, but you don't date in college. This is a real date. My first, real, adult date.

A week ago I'm at the bar. I'm socializing and having fun. I see cute a girl wearing harry potter glasses and I yell over to her "Hey! Those are harry potter glasses!". She smiles and comes over to me.

We make small talk. I kino. Her friends come over and join us. Her cute Asian friend starts flirting with me (funny how that happens?). One of her friends says "How long have you guys known each other?" and we say we've just met and everyone in the group is like "No way". Love it when that happens.

Anyway I get her number. This is where I always fuck up. I suck at texting. I'm always too aggressive or to needy or don't show enough interest or show to much interest or blah blah blah. Seriously, I suck at texting.

BUT I DID IT PERFECT THIS TIME! WOO.

Text her as soon as I get her number with a "Nice to meet you cutie.". Next day I text her a standard opener (Openers are important in text game too ya'll!!!) of "Hi how are you?" after she responds I tell her I'm gonna be out of town and I'll text her early next week to set something up. Shes like 'ok, cool'.

FFWD to today. Open. Laugh about our awful football team. Ask her when she is free. Confirm where she lives. Yelp places in that area and pick a cool place / date that's near her and works on our schedules. She agrees. I got a date later this week.

I GOT A DATE LATER THIS WEEK.

WOOOOO.