date eight!!

oh my gosh.
thursday night was really awesome.

i'll start out with this- it was refreshing to: a. be traveling west instead of east for once. b. meet someone at a different time than the standard seven pm deal.


jim and i met at the columbia diner in lancaster. he was sitting at a table "to the left" with coffee when i came in. i was pleasantly surprised as he was pretty adorable. we had a nice time and talked for several hours. finally after a dozen cups of coffee and a grilled cheese sandwich we decided to go exploring. he took me to stonehenge, but it was all short and knocked over. we walked around in the cold cold cold and ended up just hanging out and looking up. apparently this place had the reputation of being a native american energy vortex or something. it was totally awesome and jim pointed out some constellations. we talked about a whole lot and i enjoyed him thoroughly. oh man, oh man. it was one of those adorable dates that made you feel all giddy.
once it was too cold to handle and concern grew that my fingers had fallen off and were just loose in my gloves we headed back to the car.
we went back to the diner and sat outside talking a little longer. then it was pretty cute, he said something along the lines of, "i didn't mean to come back here like: oh hey we're done. do you need to go home, is it too late?" we'd had all that coffee and i was having a nice time so we decided to get gas in the car. no reason to make anyone do the gas-station-bit alone, right?
then we ended up just riding around and talking til almost five am. whoa.
eventually i had to leave because for crying out loud it was early morning/late night, etc.

he asked me to let him know that i got home alright which i really appreciated.

it was a really great date, for sure.


i'm looking forward to seeing jim again.