Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Overall Sociability
I was tired today, but I seem to have a little issue. I just have trouble jumping into a conversation when I see a couple people I know or just interrupting people when they are talking. I don't know why. I think it's because I personally hate when people jump into a conversation and interrupt, so I overconsciously make an effort to do the opposite.
Millie M (long time friend, was mad at me for stupid stuff)
My best talking of today. Talked to her interrupted for like half an hour about stuff...but I think I did a good job of balancing normal talk, C&F, and a sprinkling of "being great".
Lately I've been paying more attention to the guys who've got game and trying to see what they do. I've noticed that when they interact with girls, their humor isn't even necessarily good. It's even ****ty sometimes. But they're ALWAYS completely unpredictable, messing around with the girl and making them guess what they're going to do next. Lately I've been getting better at doing C&F and having a feel for it but it's almost always the same stuff. I need to change it up and become more unpredictable.
I think this is the next part of my game that I need to work on. Just being unpredictable and making the girl hang on every word and action that comes out of me. This, and getting over approach anxiety (still...i still feel weird doing it in a school setting) and setting up the "let's hang out" talk.
Petunia S (hot, prude past one-itis and LJBF that rejected me to hc last year)
I pretty much only talk to her if she approaches me. Which isn't that often, and I approach her extremely rarely. Maybe like once every 8 times we interact. I even ignore her approaches sometimes. Right now, the BEST dynamite would be interacting with other girls in front of her...I've done that a little last month but it's nowhere near as much as I could be getting in.
Failed sh!t test w/petunia S
After the class we have together, I left a little before her so she was behind me. Neither of us were walking with anyone. I knew she was behind me but didn't wait for her. She came up to my left and said
"Hi."[or somethin like that]
me: (put my hand on her back briefly, under her neck) "Hey Petunia S, how are you" or somethin
her: "Why did you touch me?"
me: instantly dumbfounded at how to answer this. I stop looking at her and look at where i'm walking instead. i probably looked down too. "Why did I touch you?"
her: "You're weird, sageproduct."
me: (immediately) "You're weird."
I guess I saved it there, but it wasn't done well at all. I've never prepared myself for this test, so I gotta come up with a response. Any ideas? I remember on the spot I was trying to think of a way to turn it around on her but....I reached out with my hand and touched her. I couldn't think of anything.
I went on to make fun of her for knowing so little about football, she tried to prove her knowledge but was WRONG, i corrected her (she tried to tell me 'shotgun' was a type of play) as we were heading different ways.
Other Awkwardness...
I get bored real easily. If I've talked to a lot of people in a day, I get especially sick of saying "Hi" and "How are you" as an opener. Then if there's nothing else that's witty, I just stare and don't say anything. Pretty awkward. Just something weird that I need to get over.
Also, today I was trying to work on probing through making conversation-provoking comments instead of asking questions. I found that my brain is like wired for asking probing questions, which is a good thing I guess, but I could improve so that I'm not interviewing someone.
AMOG
My last class of the day has 2 ugly girls in it, and the rest are all guys. Some with HUGE egos here, and some really popular guys too. This is where I study amoging.
Basically there are 2 main guys I study. They happen to be my least favorite people in the class cuz they're plain arrogant and I've always had a problem with that. The things they do right tho, they can talk endlessly about nothing and look like they know exactly what to do in any situation. They're always on top of what goes on. One of them seems to know at least a little about ****ING EVERYTHING. And if he doesn't, he'll pretend like he does. Also, he seems to be able to make people care about what he says. Today he went around the whole room literally bragging to everyone about how he won some supreme court case in a previous class, but he was able to do it without seeming ****y. These guys don't take ANY bs. Their comebacks are instant and dangerous. Something I've always needed work on....the going along with the hit thing works if you don't know what to say and shows you're unaffected, but I did start to get a little sick of saying "yeah i'm a *****."
Some Plans...
Today I realized that our school has a volunteer club that would be good for me to be a part of for many reasons. I met a popular kid I talk to there, and we signed up together for a volunteer event next Tuesday. In many ways, I try to think of what he would do in a situation as a DJ cuz I actually really like who he is and he's definitely got game (gone out with 3 bombshells in the last 3 years).
Also, there's some event a week from sunday in the morning that I signed up for. The shift has a max of 6 people working and when I went to sign up 2 were on the list so far; some random kid and a really hot popular girl that I've talked to. So I signed the **** up.