Further ponderings, and a post-weekend update

So...I had a strangely lovely time yesterday with a somewhat confusing man. You will remember, or praps you won't, that I'd had a few brief email exchanges with the guy who went ahead and booked the swanky sofa at the local indie cinema to see Benjamin Button? Well, anyway. I trundled into the city and met him - after a bit of faffing about because I'll be really honest...he didn't look like his photo. At all. He was very, very quiet. Exceptionally so. He was sort of...well. He was QUIET. And geeky but not in a cool-geeky way...more of a...Napoleon Dynamite geeky kind of way. But nice company. We watched the film, he stands up and blurts out, "Do you smoke?", we wandered outside and he's rolled me a cigarette and we stood there for a minute, me all tearstained haha...him saying nothing. And then from nowhere he dabs at my face all matter of fact, not awkward at all, and goes, have you got to go home? I say no, it's only 8 o'clock. He stands there just looking at me until I go, shall we go and eat? Since we were on the edge of Chinatown. So we did, and it was sort of comfortably awkward and we talked about travelling a lot and he just...kind of...he was very nervous. His hands shook terribly. His bus stop was on the edge of town, the way I was driving home, so I dropped him off and he kissed me. Not a 'we kissed', moment by any stretch - no. He was most definitely in charge. I was the somewhat surprised recipient. No nerves there.

He was an odd combination of terrified and confident and geeky and very funny. And not what I'd normally go for, but oddly attractive, in a gangly curly wearing glasses kind of way. Anyway I'm out reviewing on Wednesday and got guestlisted twice, and I'd already said if he wanted my spare he could have it so...I guess we'll see. He was odd. In a good way. I think.