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So, this is awkward. I'm 90% sure she forgot about getting back to me. I don't particularly blame her, given that she's got a bunch of stuff going on today, but I'll ask her about it.

It's a... space station?

So it turns out I was freaking out over nothing. While I haven't brought up the subject of when we're having the first date, I did spend about forty minutes texting back and forth - which is something that would have just ended awkwardly if she had decided to silently decline.

So I finally decided to ask her out. She said she wasn't sure what her schedule was like next week, and that she'd get back to me on it. And now I just feel like I monumentally screwed up. Edit: Honestly, I have faith in her actually getting back to me, but I'm still really, really nervous because of it. Advice?

I find that his view on climate change to be rather... interesting. Seriously, if Trump wasn't hogging the spotlight for insane moments, we'd see more of Johnson on the news just because what he does.

Nah, it's cool. I'm definitely going to have asked her out by next Friday.

Mercury, playing off both the Roman deity and the element.

Well, it's not that I'm afraid of asking her, it's just that the next few days, as well as the first part of the upcoming week are going to be pretty stressful for her, so I don't want to put her under any more pressure, nor do I want to distract her from exams and other important matters. I'll probably ask her out on Friday for a date after Wednesday next week.

So while I'm still set on asking her out, I've decided to postpone it by about a week. It's not that things are weird, but times might coincide better if I ask her out next week.

Multiple reasons, really. 1) Cost: Aluminum is better used as defense against Soothers/Rioters, and you can't guarantee that you'll be able to recover it from a bullet. 2) Aluminum on its own isn't particularly great as a metal. Basically every useful application of aluminum involves alloying it in some way.

That's really similar to what happened with my internet buddies and I. After some time, people just sort of drift apart - it's one of the problems of being on internet forums. But just because people are leaving the replacement forum, it doesn't mean that you lose contact with them for good. Get some sort of IM service with them (Skype or Steam is how I handle most of them), and just pop in to say hi every now and then. You might not speak with them as often, but it's better than completely losing contact.

Okay, confession time. So I'm normally a fairly calm person, but I've met someone recently (about a month and change ago, really) who I really like. I've been sort of biding my time to ask her out, just to make sure that I'm not being deceived by first impressions. Here's where things get good. The more time I spend around her, the more I realize how much we have in common, and how much I really enjoy being around her. I'm not normally the sort of person to get sentimental (I've had bad experiences in the past where that's backfired horribly), so finding someone like her is amazing. I'm supposed to meet up with her on Sunday to get some studying done, and I'm probably going to ask her out to lunch/dinner then. But holy carp, am I nervous.

If I have to recommend that a guitarist learn one song, it's going to be "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim. It's an incredibly flexible Latin piece, which can be played in any number of different Latin styles and a decent variety of keys.

Okay, so I was having a discussion about genders today with my friends, and I mentioned the massive gender chart that was on one of the topics here on the Shard. Does anyone have a link to it?

It also works wonders as a prank. Switch out four or five letters for one another in the registry, and watch chaos ensue.