Single Life In Baltimore

"Aggression Fail on an Epic Scale" that is the name of the song of my life. That's right, I never heard anything back from Monica. Yes I even messaged her... twice. No replies. I really thought I my game was getting tight but I guess I am not being aggressive enough. I think the lesson I need to take from this is that I need to properly read my targets and guage early on how aggressive I should be. In hindsight, all of her past boyfriends were tough aggressive guys. Even though she SAID that she was sick of tough guys and was ready to move on to a guy that was more sensitive and would be more compatible with her, clearly this was just a defense mechanism and I should know better than to expect her to change her basic desires on a whim. Next time I encounter a female with this kind of profile, I will be much more aggressive and I will do it early on. On the flip side, when I meet a girl who is meek and quiet, or who has a history of dating men that are conservative or "nice guys" then I need to be very nonthreatening with my overall approach. Lesson learned.

I watched UFC on the weekend and man was I happy that Frank Mir won that fight against Chek Congo. I watched the fights at my friend's pad on his 70" projection which was pretty sweet. We ordered some pizzas and drank some beers and Jaegershots and got all fucked up. Then we played poker and I came in second place sigh. I lost heads up to my friend Jeremy in a bullshit hand where we both flopped trips. I won't get into the specifics because I know no one likes to hear poker stories... unless they are their own.

I met a new girl and her name is Lindsey. She is a gamer. Yeah you heard me correctly, she is a gamer. A girl who is a gamer, usually doesn't do much more than sit in front of their computer and game. I mean, if you ask most girls what they like, they never mention video games in the list of stuff they like to do let alone say that as their primary hobby. Gamer chicks are hardcore dedicated. She said she plays a lot of FPS and other stuff but mainly FPS and her nick she uses is LaidESoss. She is 21 and going to University for Video Game Development or something... I dunno if it's a University or a private college etc all I know is she studies that shit. I thought it might be a good idea to have a gamer chick as a girl friend that way I know where she will be all the time and also I like to game lol. I am going to go meet her at this cyber cafe on Friday night and she said we are going to have some drinks and then play Counterstrike and she will see if I am noob or not. I assume if I am noob then I will have no chance with her. I have played lots of FPS before like Soldier of Fortune, Battlefield 2, etc but I have only played Counterstrike a few times long ago in some cyber arcades and I got powned hard. So I bought the game and I am installing it right now. Gonna practice and also watch some tutorial videos etc and expert tips so I can try and get better at this game and impress this girl. I will let you know how it goes.

Yay I finally heard back from Monica. She said she had a good time and said I had surprised her with how hard I was partying. I asked her if she had any thoughts on me smoking weed and she said she could care less either way. I think deep down that is not how she really feels but I think she was just being nice. She was commenting on how I was attracting a lot of girls and I replied that it was because I was around her and it was her hotness that was bringing them over. She didn't really get what I meant, but I know from watching Mystery (ya know the guy that made the Mystery Method) that because I was with a hot girl, I was immediately categorized into the upper echelon of eligible men. She said that all her friends thought I was cool and would love to hang out with me anytime. That is all great and everything but it's not them I want to hang out with, it's just her. She did say that she thought I was "cute" which I hate big time. I hate it when girls tell me I am cute. Because cute is not what I am going for sigh. Anyways she agreed to go out with me for dinner on the weekend so let me tell you how that went.

It was Saturday night and I met her at the restaurant where I was taking her. We both took taxis so that we could drink without worrying about driving. The place we went to was called Pazo Restaurant down on 1425 Aliceanna Street. It was a nice Mediterranean place with a very warm interior. I was really nervous before I left the house and so I smoked a bunch of weed because I thought that would make me feel better. When I got the restaurant I was high as #$% and was like doh I smoked too much, but the good thing was that she hadn't arrived yet so I had a chance to sit there and eat some bread to try and kill my buzz a bit. When she finally arrived (10mins late) it felt like my heart was going to pop out of my chest because I was so excited to see her. She looked so incredibly attractive that I felt like I was out with a supermodel.

She approached the table and I stood up to greet her. Handshake? Hug? Kiss? wtf do I do here... grr I hate greeting people because I have no standardized greeting other than fist bumps with my friends. I stood there and kind of did nothing to see what she would do. She opened her arms as if to hug me and then kissed me on the cheek as we embraced... I was like w00t. She was smiling a lot and I was all giddy and semi-retarded as a result of that. She was talking to me and I was like just staring at her face not really listening. I think she could tell because I am pretty sure that she asked me the same thing 2-3 times and then smiled really hard and was blushing. Finally I came back to earth with the help of a little self talk. We ordered some drinks - she had a Cosmopolitan and I had a rum and coke.

I really have no idea what we were talking about. I think the topic was work etc and some other meaningless crap. I was pretty much just staring at her the whole time, fixated on her lips and teeth... man she has perfect white teeth. I think we had about 4 drinks each by the time our meals came and I was feeling pretty tipsy and excited like a little kid cuz I was with such a hot chick in such a nice place and I was high. I shoveled my food into my mouth kind of quick and near the end of the meal I was like oh I should be more conscious of my table manners. She ordered some chocolate cake for dessert and I didn't have anything. Yeah, that's right I don't eat sugar after protein. I will explain why because most people are perplexed as to why I do this. 8 years ago I went to a naturopathic doctor and they told me if I did nothing else for the rest of my life I should not mix proteins with sugars. So here is how it works... When you eat proteins they take 3 hours to fully digest in your stomach. When you eat sugars it takes your body 1 hour to digest it. So lets pretend you have a totally empty stomach and you show up at a restaurant. Then you eat steak or chicken for dinner. What happens is that now you have a lump of protein in your stomach and that's it, so your body now pumps in hydrochloric acid to break down the protein. This meat needs to stay in this state of being submerged in acid for 3 hours to fully digest the meat. So what happens when you eat dessert 10 mins after dinner? The sugar from the dessert goes into your stomach and joins the protein and acid that are currently in there. Your body will then pump in alkaline to break down the sugars. The problem here is that when you mix alkaline with acid, the alkaline will neutralize all the acid and all the liquid will turn to alkaline. So now you have in your stomach protein, sugar, and alkaline... no acid. So the sugars will get digested but the protein which only had 10 mins alone in the acid will just float around in the alkaline and not get broken down or digested and this undigested meat will sit in your colon and ferment. You will experience bloating and diarrhea etc. So basically you need to wait 3 hours after eating meat before you can eat sugar which is very hard for most people because their body craves sugar after you eat protein. It took me several years to adjust to this style of eating and now it seems totally disgusting to me to eat sugar with protein. Also drinking something sugary like soda while you are eating is the worst thing you can do because now you are not even giving the protein any chance to get broken down because you bombarding your system with alkaline. The worst example of this is when people order a Coke with their fast food. I usually TRY and wait 3 hours but sometimes I will just give in after 2 hours.

Anyways back to the date. After she finished dessert she said she wanted to go dancing somewhere so we went back to Club Hippo where we went last week. There was a big ass lineup and I was like ugh I got no connections here and I don't want to have to tip the bouncer just to get in. Then randomly she went up to a bouncer and said something to him and he just nodded and opened the rope and we got let in ahead of the crowd. When we got in I asked if she knew him and she said yeah that he was one of her friend's ex boyfriends. I was like hmm was that a lie? Was that YOUR old boyfriend? Then I was like meh who cares... an ex is an ex what should I care... at least we got into the club which was hopping. We got some drinks and hit the packed ass dance floor. We danced for a long time but sorta across from each other. I was tempted to touch her and grind her and shit but I wasn't sure she was into it. We finally left near closing time and shared a taxi to her place. We pulled up in front of her apartment building and she leaned over and kissed me on the cheek, said she had a great time and that I was sweet. Then she turned and got out of the car and I was like wtf fail. I do not understand women. I thought I was getting somewhere with her but perhaps I wasn't aggressive enough

Oops, didn't mean to wait so long between posts. Let me update you guys on what happened on the weekend with Monica and the whole clubbing thing with her friends. We didn't end up going out on the weekend I thought we were going to. She had to cancel because she said she wasn't feeling well. Whatever that means. I will never know if she was telling the truth or just punking me off. Anyhoo I had a good time and I will spell out exactly how it all went down.

I played baseball with my buddies on Saturday afternoon - it's a thing we do every Sat to stay in shape and have some fun etc. We played from noon until 3 pm and then when we were done we all went back to my buddy Drew's place to drink beers and play video games. This little after party is part of the same ritual. Good times. We were playing UFC Unleashed, Rockband 2, and some Pro Evolution Soccer, oh yeah and we played Trivial Pursuit also which is kinda cool but I prefer the board game version. I drank about 4 beers while I was there and at some point my crazy friend Stewart decided it was time for everyone to do Jaeger shots. I ended up doing about 3 of them. We ordered some pizza and wings around 5pm and I left his place around 6pm and got a drive home from my friend Alex who doesn't drink.

Got in, rolled a fat joint, put on some music and cracked another beer. Around 8pm I finally called a taxi cuz I had to meet Monica and her friends at Baja Beach Club. I was already buzzing nicely by the time I got there. I hate going to a club or a lounge or somewhere where you are meeting friends and having to stand in the doorway and look around like a knob. So that is what I did, and then saw a group of 8 people that Monica was with. I could barely recognize her as I had only seen 2-3 pics of her in her online profile. It was like slow motion walking over to this table of 8 people drinking and chatting and have them all slowly turn and look/check me out. One by one I was introduced to each person. A few solid handshakes and a few dead fish shake as well, man I friggin dead fish handshakes. There were 5 girls and 3 guys, and the thing was that they were all just friends and no one was in a relationship. It was quite a unique group dynamic, something I had never experienced before.

They were all drinking beers except one of the guys who was drinking rum and coke. I really wanted to switch to drinking straight vodka but I didn't want to appear to hardcore or extreme so I just ordered a beer. They were chatting about the usual bullshit. A few of her friends were hot, but Monica was by far the hottest girl in the group. The guys were acting a bit protective of her. It's not like they actually said anything, but I could just tell that was how they felt from the vibe they were putting out. I was half ripped and pretty high, and I was going to stay quiet and just observe but the next thing I know I was chatting about something and had the whole group in stitches laughing.

Around 10pm we left that place and headed over to a club called "Sonar". The place was pumping already at 10pm which was cool cuz I hate going to a club early and it's half dead and no one is dancing. Not exactly the kind of place that is an escape. The club was fun as hell, we all danced in a group of 8 and sometimes random people would join us. All of the girls were hot enough that they had guy on them pursuing them trying to talk to them. All three guys had game and were macking chicks all night. I had a few random girls come up to me and ask me my name and shit, but they weren't as hot as Monica so I basically just toyed with them for a bit then sent them on their way. I think this was getting Monica turned on, watching me be pursued by other girls.

Around 12:30am we left Sonar and headed over Club Hippo. As soon as we got in the place we all went to the bar and they were having drink specials on shooters so Randy one of the guys, ordered us a round of shooters, I'm not sure what kind they were cuz when I asked him what he ordered he just said some fruity tasting shooters. Downed those, and then Debbie one of the girls decided to order a round herself for us and on and on it went until we had all done 4 shooters of god knows what. Then we each got our drinks and headed out to the dance floor. One of Monica's friends named Jennifer started to touch me a lot, grabbing my arm etc and I was like uh oh. She was kinda hot so I played with her for a while and let her just do whatever she wanted. I noticed some latin girls around us watching and smiling. I was like damnnn what a great night. So nice for the old ego which had needed a boost. The effects of the 4 shooters were starting to kick in for me and also for everyone else in the group cuz the vibe changed to crazyiness within a short time heh. I decided to pull out a joint and fire it up. Passed it around to a few people in the group who smoked and after that things started to get really blurry - and that was for me with my high tolerance. The other guys who smoked in my group were really wasted lol and almost falling over. Luckily the place was packed shoulder to shoulder so no bouncers could really see how messed up we were. I really don't remember much after, all I remember was walking up at one of the guy's places the next morning named Jake along 2 of the other guys and 2 of the other girls. I guess those who were too fucked up to make home ended up here. at least I found my way to a spare bedroom and didnt pass out on the floor or some other hard surface where I would have woke up with a backache lol. I gathered my shit and headed home with a massive headache. Good times indeed. Still haven't spoken to Monica since that night. Waiting for her to message me online.