Ok, so this guy's name is Justin. He lives around the corner from me. He is originally from South Dakota, YES! SOUTH DAKOTA! He was in the Army for 5 years and has been out for 1 (or 2). He came to this area because of working opportunities. He works as a Russian translator for a government contracting company. As he says, he does "Russiany things". He's crazy smart. He knows three languages besides English (Russian, German and Arabic) and he's traveled all over the place.
The date: We went to some rinky dink, hole-in-the-wall place called Buck Murphy's. It is such a hole-in-the-wall place that they don't even accept credit cards. They admit they are stuck in the 60's. The majority of the customers in there were over the age of 70. I ordered a beer and they did in fact, to my surprise, have Sam Adams but they only had Octoberfest-OCTOBERfest. :) I was ok with that because that's my favorite but I thought it was funny. We chatted about everything imaginable.... family, past relationships, work, etc. He probably knows more about me at this point than some of my friends.
There was an old guy in there that was highly entertaining and he was thrilled to have met someone from South Dakota. He kept playing old songs on the radio from the 60's and was impressed that I knew them. He told Justin that he needed to marry me and not let me go. Justin's response was "that's a very interesting comment." I thought it was pretty funny.
The Redskins game came on while we were sitting there and Justin isn't a football fan but we chatted and watched a bit and listened to the other bar patrons complain and argue a bit. At one point, and I might be the only one to notice this but two players were on the screen at the same time. One was number 76 and the other was 67. I said "oh, look, 7667." Justin chuckled and said "That's an interesting observation. Are you a fan of palindromes?" My reply was "Yes, Actually I am." He said that my eyes got so big and I got really excited when he asked me that. He got to see some of my .... uniqueness, if you will.
There were many, many funny moments. Conversation was easy, comfortable and just enjoyable. We both decided we needed a change of locales. I told him if he wanted to head home and go our separate ways thats fine if he wanted to call it a night. He said that he actually wanted to spend more time with me if I was up for it. I was game! Neither one of us wanted to go to another bar or eat so we went to his place. His apartment is spotless! OMG! It looked like a hotel room. He has the most amazing wall art and "things" all around. He has Matryoshka (nesting) dolls which I love and he was impressed I knew the actual name of! He has the most awesome chair- http://www.lovesac.com/sacs.html. It's amazingly comfortable. I could have definitely fallen asleep very easily there. We watched a bit of TV and then there may have been some small happenings of a make out session. By the time I left his place it was 1 or 130. The date began at 530. I call that a success!
We chatted throughout today, like we have been and there's no set time or place for our next date just yet but I think sushi is the plan. I like this one, immensely! I hope he sticks around.
Oh, the one downfall is that he is allergic to cats. So am I, so hopefully it's not too bad of an allergy. He says it's been awhile since he's been around a cat so he's not sure how allergic he is or how severe the symptoms are... I'm hoping it's copeable-which is not a word, but it should be so I'm keeping it!
Stay tuned... I hope there are many more blogs to come with Justin being the topic.
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