H Street Country Club

First, a plug. A great deli opened on H Street about a year ago, and I can't say enough about the place, it's called Taylor Gourmet. Taylor is an Italian-style deli that has some of the best sandwiches in the city. I must have eaten there three times this weekend. Check it out.

Friday night I went out in Dupont with Andy, his buddy Rich, and their friend Tara. We started at a small bar on 18th, then went to Buffalo Billiards, and finally to Saint Ex where the wheels fell off the wagon.

Andy was saying that South is pressuring him into a serious commitment, which he is resisting. They have only gone out a few times and have not slept together, and she has already invited him to visit her hometown and to a wedding with her. He declined both and decided not to see her this weekend. Tara was cool as hell, and very funny (not my type, though). One of Andy's friends suggested he do something sexually offensive to South to have her ease off a bit. Andy is kind of quiet and un-assuming, and sometimes comes across as naive (though I think it's mainly due to his quiet nature). This steered the conversation to all the naughty things we thought he should do to South, and Tara was really into it. She would later say that she gleaned an interesting view of the male mind that night.

On Saturday night we went to 18th Amendment to watch the Florida/LSU game, then to the H Street Country Club to play mini-golf. The Country Club is a blast. The place is huge, and was packed. Rick's friend Sly, this chick that I have met a bunch of times, showed up with another girlfriend. I played pool with them for a long time but I was also talking to this girl Poonani, who is a vet in town that I know through some friends. I've known Poonani for a while, and she's fun, but I never really thought of her as sexy because she always seems to be dressed like she was working in the garden. To be fair to her, I have only seen her out once, I generally see her around town or at her brother's place, who I also know. However, Saturday night Poonani had come from a charity event, and was all dressed up and looked great.

Towards the end of the evening Poonani was ignoring her date, and hanging out with my crew, and I noticed that Sly was hanging around me a lot too. I don't want to hook up with Poonani because her brother would be so fucking mad at me. Sly isn't all that great looking, but I was tempted to take her home just to fool around. A few of us shared a cab home at the end of the night, and Sly was in the car, but when we got to my house she didn't get out. I never actually invited her to come in, I just figured that if she wanted to come in she would have gotten out of the cab. I think it was awkward since there were other people in the cab with us.

There were other girls at the bar that I was talking to, but nothing special. I did get one girls number, but she was a little older and not that interesting. I won't call her.

A girl in my office keeps trying to set me up with her friend, I think I may take her up on it this weekend. I know the "don't shit where you work" arguement, but I feel this is enough removed to not become an issue.

Bear sent me two text messages at 4am on Saturday night/Sunday morning. She asked what I was doing, to which my reply was simply "drunk". I think she got back from California late last night.

I'm trying to think of an extra curricular activity to do this winter that might expose me to new people. I could always work the door at my friend's bar, which is a great way to meet women, but I'm not sure that's how I want to spend my weekend evenings, even if I only did it one night a week. I'm taking a welding class, but I have a feeling I'm not going to meet many cute single girls there. My sister keeps suggesting I go to a yoga class, but I feel like that's cheesy and contrived since I dont' like yoga much. I would just be doing it to meet women, I don't have any interest in the activity (not that checking ID's at a bar is a past time of mine).

In general, I'm fairly bored lately. I need a project, something to keep me busy. I was hoping to have my Honda sold by now so that I could buy a Harley and play around with it during the winter, but that obviously hasn't happened. Idle hands do the devil's work.