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[Golfhaus]

also, if at all possible, when asking a girl out avoid asking "um... do you have a car?"

A wise and respected expert on the romantic arts summed it up best: "Got no money and you got no car, then you got no woman - and there you are."

[littlefallsmets]

Reminds me of the old joke.

What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

Homeless.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Filled out the application for readmission to my old school, HSC, and emailed the dean. I know im technically a "transfer" but do they really need to see my SAT scores and high school transcript again? Dudes who get kicked out for honor court violations, or you know go to jail, just have to basically write a letter for readmission. It would be quite the christmas present to return to my homeboys back in ol' Virginny. Still, the idea of me sitting here in NYC right now and possibly sitting in Farmville, VA just 2 months from now... mindblowing.

[AugustWest]

Try calling the Dean tomorrow and describing your situation.  If you didn't shit on his desk on your way out of town, you're probably fine.  You may be able to cut through some red tape too, but in my experience, college administrators love making folks jump through hoops even more than the Driver's License bureaucrats.

[theinevitable]

I am not really sure how that went. Movie date without coffee or dinner-- BAD IDEA.

[Doc]

Yeah Inev, have to allow yourself a chance for getting to know you chit chat. Unless the movie goes really well but then such as we are too gentlemanly for those type antics.

[theinevitable]

yeah, um, she had to get home and get to bed, she had some kind of work thing in the morning?
highlights reel:
-I am an idiot and went to the wrong metro stop, so we missed our movie. She sent me a text message saying something like "I am scared of this metro stop, where are you?" and I felt like a major dick
-we decided to walk to a closer movie theater
-she kept trying to give me advice on classes to take? not a positive thing.
-this journey involved jumping over... this... there was a whole situation which is hard to explain. Basically she did something where I was basically imagining her falling, landing on a busy street, and being run over before my eyes.
-she brought fruit roll-ups to the movie and it was adorable
-About a Son is... a movie to watch I guess. It exists. I dug it because I love Kurt Cobain. She said it made him seem like a whiny dick, which I guess is true.
-she had left her bike on campus, so we walked all the way back to campus together, passing her apartment. she gave me an awkward hug and said bye.

[Doc]

That doesn't sound so bad, sure the bus thing is a bit of a hiccup but long walk back to campus? That's good stuff. Don't play down hugs either, hug on a first date is reasonable progression. My general rule is that if the chick wants to touch you this is a good sign.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Try calling the Dean tomorrow and describing your situation.  If you didn't shit on his desk on your way out of town, you're probably fine.  You may be able to cut through some red tape too, but in my experience, college administrators love making folks jump through hoops even more than the Driver's License bureaucrats.

He answered my email basically saying that I am applying for "readmission" not "transfer" so I just need to fill out the application with a letter from a professor and a letter from "someone who knows me". This personal character witness letter I feel is of southern flavor. No one in new york cares what someone else thinks of me.

[theinevitable]

No one in new york cares what someone else thinks of me.

I have gotten this vibe from some of my Yankee friends. damn, dude, those people. Where do they get the nerve.

Chris, I am glad that you have made the decision you have. Way to man up and fix your problems.

Don't play down hugs either, hug on a first date is reasonable progression. My general rule is that if the chick wants to touch you this is a good sign.

oh, I mis-explained this and the class-advice giving thing. The issue is that contrary to our earlier interactions, it seemed very obvious last night that she was creeped out by being 2 years older than me. This was not a good hug. It was a... I don't know what hug to compare it to, but i didn't like its tone.

[wombat]

Today I saw an acupuncturist. It wasn't as scary as I expected.  It might be bullshit, but I have had so much trouble with western medicine lately - I figured I might as well try it because at least it wouldn't make me feel any worse.

[wombat]

I'm pretty sure she was taking each needle out of a fresh package... although I can't swear to this since I was afraid to look at them.

[Doc]

Today I saw an acupuncturist. It wasn't as scary as I expected.  It might be bullshit, but I have had so much trouble with western medicine lately - I figured I might as well try it because at least it wouldn't make me feel any worse.

I read about an interesting study (Ben Goldacre at badscience.net wrote a few entries about it) that was done a little while ago on people who had chronic back-pain for at least 8 years (and presumably had tried all sorts of standard treatments) were split into three groups, one recieved normal treatment, one recieved acupuncture and one group recieved fake acupuncture where they deliberately did it wrong.
For a pre-set level of 'feel better' twenty something percent of the normal treatment group felt better (not that suprising since they had probably already tried these conventional medicines) 47% of the accupuncture group felt better and 45% of the fake accupuncture group felt better.
The point isn't that acupuncture is a huge crock, it's that certain conditions have a genuine psychological component (which doesn't make them any less real, pain is pain regardless of the cause) and so they need a psych-social treatment so the novelty of the new type of treatment had more of an impact than the treatment itself. Not that any of this is necessarily relevant to you Wombie, just sharing.
Don't get complacent about them not being about them not being able to do you any harm though, anything that has an effect has side effects. This is particularly true in the case of herbal remedies where some of the herbs contain the same compounds you'll find in more conventional medication. If you're taking Saint John's Wort while on depression medication for instance you should always let your doctor know.

[theinevitable]

I recently had an argument about this with a good friend of mine. I sent her a link to that badscience.net study, and she said she didn't trust anything on the internet, basically, and pointed out that he misspelled a word, and so he couldn't possibly have any legitimacy as a source.
About a week later, our anthro professor mentioned badscience.net as a blog that he really enjoys and reads regularly.

[wombat]

To tell you the truth, if it just works because of the placebo effect, that's fine with me.  The placebo effect is probably the most effective things medicine has to offer - don't knock it.

She did talk about herbs but yeah, that's different. I don't think I want to mess with that.