What helped me tonight was opening early. Coming into the venue, I made to get some water. On the way, chatted with a guy who was briefly my coworker. Then I dropped a glass, and it didn’t break, and I was like “yea”.

I think opening the old coworker was good not only for momentum, but because I wanted to open a set in the vicinity to not look like a bitch haha. So I did that. Two nurses. Ragged on the more attractive one a lot. Not that either were hot. Stuck in the set for quite long, past my comfort point. Then I bounced on them quite abruptly.

Found buddies. Shot shit for a bit then we moved.

3 set, there for family friend birthday. It just petered out.

2 set of older working women from Boston. Married. Brought a guy who normally chodes around into set with them and left shortly thereafter. My open here was the good part. I came in, they were by the doorway, I saw them and just pointed as I walked up. They said I came up as if I knew them, and I took this as a compliment.

Next two set was by heater. They were open to talking, set hooked. Dude from previous set rolled in with newfound confidence--glad I was able to do something for him, most nights he just walks around like a zombie and never talks to any chicks. At some point, girl I am talking to wants to see how friend is doing talking to that guy, and I bail.

I believe the next set was 2 set of Brazilians. Not particularly attractive. Girl I was talking to seemed pretty into me, but she wasn’t above threshold. Nevertheless, I tried to move her to the bar, since that was a primary goal for me. Didn’t work, but glad I tried.

Oh yeah, then there was this two set I opened well. My opens are definitely getting better. These were hot chicks, they opened right up. Not sure I could have done that as recently as a month ago. What happens here is some dudes they know come in, and this also causes them to talk to other female friends or something in the environment. Basically, the whole set turns into their friends group, whereas prior it was just me an kenno talking to two girls. I bail shortly after this transition occurs, as the girl, while very talkative, was not particularly into me, and I am not trying to learn to deal with dudes and all this.

Overall, like I said, opens are getting better and I feel freer when I open. I am also better at pushing past initial awkwardness, it just matters way less to me. I’m kind of like “yeah, it’s just like that”. I am also generally less needy and more willing to just say random stuff. I did a good job of kinoing just about every single girl I spoke to tonight, so that’s good too.