I'm So Stupid!
Okay, so there's this girl I'm going out with right now. She's an actress in our theatre department, which is putting on this festival of one-act plays which she and I have been attending together. At tonight's performances, she intimated that it had been a rough day, as a friend of hers had died in a car accident. No good. Being a generally supportive guy, I gave her a comforting pat on the back and gave my condolences, which she seemed receptive to. At a break in between one of the plays, she mentioned that she had completed a whole bunch of papers that had been hanging over her head last night. As a congratulatory gesture, I attempted to shake her hand. She took this as an invitation to hold hands, and next thing I knew, there was some interdigitation. While that was not my intent, I was not about to protest. Weird, to say the least. Now, I really like her, and would like to forge a strong relationship, but I don't want to rush into anything. Needless to say, this is a sudden jump forward, and I'm vaguely uncomfortable. During the next intermission, she looked at me and said the dreaded words: You and I need to have a DTR (that's a Whitworth acronym for "Defining The Relationship, and yes, you do pronounce those capitals). Oh shit. After the plays were over, I confessed that my true intention had been far more modest, but I fear that I may have frightened her off...God I hate the whole epistemic difficulties that relationships bring. I just hope I haven't blown it. This could be either really good or really bad...only time will tell.