The Vacation Flirtation

Why is that whenever I travel somewhere, I always manage to find a cute boy (I have a long storied history of this)? I think that there must be some sort of cosmic reason out there that I just can't manage to meet one who lives in a reasonable radius whom I actually want to date.

Or maybe it's just that I know that I can't date the guy from far away so all inhibitions are lost and I'm free to be completely myself (and for some strange reason, guys kind of dig that).


Anyway, last weekend I was in Texas visiting a friend who just happened to be throwing a party while I was there and I met this really cute guy. My friend had told me ahead of time that I would probably hit it off with him but that he was earmarked for her other friend (whom actually lives in the same city). But when said friend did not show up, I got to stake my claim for the night! He was cute, smart (went to a near Ivy League school with EXCELLENT basketball), funny, creative and spent hours talking to me and giving me pointers about Fantasy Football (for my very first team ever with a work league).

I even got brave and sent him an email when I got home thanking him for his advice and telling him how much fun I had hanging out with him at the party. I included a brilliant flirtatious tagline so he'd remember who I was . . . Julie (the drunk girl from Kansas City at Katie’s birthday party who hopefully didn’t bring up too many terribly embarrassing subject matters) . . . and when he replied, he said that of course he remembered me and added on some more adjectives to my description that led me to believe that if I actually lived close, he would have asked me out.

His email didn't necessarily invite a response but it didn't not invite one either so the door is still open for a little email flirtation.

Maybe he'll just be one of those "in my head" relationships . . . you know, the kind where you maybe email once in awhile, but in your head you envision it to be this amazing relationship where if it actually ended up happening it would completely crash and burn due to the fact that anything in reality could never live up to my "perfect" expectations.