Hey guys, I've been Monk Mode for quite a while. By quite a while, I mean I haven't had sex in nearly a year. It's been great for building iron clad self-discipline and purging my false need for validation. But I think I'm ready for a change.

I look great and constantly notice IOI's from 7's-9's but don't really act on any of them 99% of the time...

I was in a cafe today after work doing some writing and reading. Stumbled on an old thread on TRP called something like "30 Day Challenge Post" for making small talk and subsequently noticed this Redhead HB 8 giving me IOI's out the wazoo. I felt the tension. I saw her in the window reflection as she kept flipping her hair and glancing at me. It was rather distracting, which is the typical attitude I have toward women giving me IOI's these days.

But since I was reading the challenge, I figured, "fuck it."

It's either I sit here stuck in that wave of pitiful contempt and keep feeling distracted or just go talk to her. The 1 hour long music track I was listening to had three seconds left and it reminded me of the "three second rule" taught by Mystery, the old pick up master. So at the end of those three seconds, I closed my laptop and took a deep breathe. She glanced at me as I took my dishes to the dish area. On my way back, I stopped at the small, two chair table she was sitting at, and I sat in the empty chair.

I made strong eye contact with her, and she took her headphones off.

The words that came out of my mouth were, "you're fire," to which she responded, "is that a redhead joke?"

I held my frame and this turned into a 4-5 minute conversation, which had a pretty even amount of input from both of us.

Whenever I talked, she gave me deep eye contact and sucked on the straw of her late night late caffè e latte.

She complimented me on my confidence but also shit tested me a few times.

I passed the shit tests and number closed her.

...........now what?