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Yeah, that's definitely looking on the bright side. I'm pretty bad with names too. But when I'm crushing on someone I work hard to remember stuff like that.

lol GCZ, you're so awesome :)

Yeah, I try to make a point of actively listening and remembering things when I'm crushing on someone, but that's not to say that if I'm flustered I'm going to do a good job of it. My boyfriend, on the other hand... I swear he remembers everything I have ever said. It makes me feel like a bad girlfriend!

lol, I'm sure you're awesome. :)

I still don't know some of my students' names. This makes me feel like a horrible person. The name amnesia seems worse than usual this year. But! I can tell you anything and everything else about the kids. I swear I wouldn't make it through the day without my numbered seating charts.

Yeah, I totally kept forgetting my crush's name for a month. I would even mess up and call him something else when talking about him to my friends sometimes. Luckily never did it in front of him, but... it was close. Names just sometimes don't work for people.

Some people just need nicknames, obviously.

I definitely have a few friends whose names I seriously cannot call to mind because of how hard their nicknames have stuck.

I'm really bad with names.
One of my friend-quainences is even worse though, one time when we were all hanging out he turned to his friend (who'd been a fairly good friend of his for a solid 5 or so months) and very seriously asked "wait....what's your name again?" and we all thought he was joking.
He wasn't.
The alcohol probably had a good deal to do with it, but just a day or so earlier he'd forgotten my name.
So yeah.
Some people's brains have a non-functioning name compartment.

BUT MORE RELEVANT TO THIS THREAD, I've been talking to this girl from ~the internets~ a lot recently and we're going to meet up next week and she's just super cool and really fun and we've been talking really often and she's SO pretty and ARGH I totally want to not crush on her until we actually hang out in person but it's SO HARD because she's SO COOL. So. Yeah. That's a thing.

I'll be seeing work crush at work tomorrow and I'm trying to figure out how I'm not going to burst into giggles when I see him. Lard this kid is cute. I think I might have almost killed him just using the word "bone" in a sentence. The problem is I keep forgetting he's one of the few people I know who is more socially awkward than me.

I think I might die from how strongly I feel about this guy I met tonight. I want to punch all the babies in the world. In the face. I think he might be straight. Not sure. But I've seriously neve met anyone I was so attracted to .

I kind of wish tonight had not ever happened.

I'm so guilty of doing this, a year of online dating has seen my wardrobe grow more and more eclectic!

My crush is kicking me in the ovaries at the moment. I hate having crushes.

I have a crush on someone I just can not have a crush on. Well, I guess I can crush but it is a 0% chance of anything more. Crush crush crush!

Work crush complimented my shirt today (I wore something cute over my ugly deli shirt and ditched the apron) which sent me into a spiral of crushing.

So I had a really nice interaction with a coworker today. She's super sweet. And I think she might be into me. As we were talking she started to blush redder and redder. It was pretty endearing.

Big problems though.

I know she has a boyfriend who she's living with. And even if she were hypothetically ever to break up with her boyfriend I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable dating her. She looks A LOT younger than I assume she is (given you have to be at least 18 to work until closing) and I'm way taller than her (I'm 6'3). I just wouldn't want people to see us together and think there was something shady going on.

It's frustrating. Because she's super nice.

If there's anything to worry about, this is NOT it. My husband is 6'4", I am 5'1". When we started dating I was eating and easily looked 16. Get over it!

also like, who cares what other people think?

Exactly. But also... I was eating? I am always eating. How the fork did that happen. I was 18!!!!

Lol, I was a little confused by it, but I wasn't going to ask!

I'm crushing on a few different dudes at once. One of them eats lamb on a regular basis. Barf. But he's pretty cute. I'd never date him, of course.

Mine is doing the same, we've moved waaaaay beyond the crush stage and this man makes me want to have his babies... alas, life won't allow for that, so I'll have to make do with gazing at him like a total smitten kitten. This crush kicked the asparagi of all the other crushes put together, and after 5 weeks of dating, is not waning one little bit.

Is this a terrible idea?

My friend suggested we both go in to the grocery store where crush and I work this week, and after casually ordering something from the deli (which I do every Wednesday), I invite him, all cool-like, to see a movie/grab a bite with us after he gets out of work. My friend's a pretty good wingwoman and I want to see how this goes but you guys have probably had more relationships and crushes so is this something I should do?!

Buh crushes

I have a crush. He has a girlfriend. Boo.

Do it!

I have a few fake-crushes at the moment. I pretty much have a crush on every dude at my yoga studio, but that's because I think yoga is kind of hot, and not about the individuals themselves. Also I have an intellectual crush on the other TA in the course I just finished TA'ing. I'm not physically attracted to him at all but he is brilliant, laid-back and has excellent taste in movies. Also I would like more friends in my academic field to bounce ideas off of and so forth. I thought of emailing him to have a coffee sometime, but I'm afraid it'll come off like I'm asking him out when I am not - how about "just so you know I'm not asking you out because I have a boyfriend but do you want to go for coffee sometime?" heh.

It's a great idea, but don't be disappointed if he can't join, it's so last minute, he might not be able to. But it totally wouldn't mean he doesn't want to, so I really think this is definitely a great idea. (Also, I think the 'grabbing a bite' option is better, it's more casual, less commitment, so for a first time hangout, less stressful!)