That's exactly it, al77
That's strictly intentional on my part that it's hard to talk. Talking is the weakest part of my game, at least most of the time. I don't want to talk much, and want to have easy, automtic converstion topics, which those sort of dates provide in spades.
There aren't festivals going on quite every week here, but it's actually pretty close here in the summer. The Detroit Festival of the Arts was this weekend, in a few weeks there's the Tastefest. Then a couple weeks later, my fave of the lot, the 4th Street Fair.
But I hardly caught the Arts Festival this weekend: had a couple gals I know came up from out of town, and we went to explore the abandoned train station (the most renowned of the great Detroit ruins), among other things. I was realllyyy cool...
It's fun hanging with the above-mentioned gals, but there's a weird sort of triangle going on: one of them is really hot for me, but there are some serious logistical complications, regarding her living situation, and I don't think she can get into it with me without becoming seriously attached. It would be difficult for either of us to relocate, though she likes it here...
The other gal likes me, too, but has some major points of incompatibility that would almost certainly preclude a relationship even if she does move here, which she's strongly considering
I wish they were hedonistic bi girls...