Date #16 - Kevin

We'd been emailing back and forth for a bit since he was up in Northern California for the holidays.  Our emails were okay, nothing spectacular or super engaging, more of the generic get-to-know-you type of emails.

We rendezvous at a Coffee Bean in Santa Monica (same setting as our dear professor in date #8) mid-evening.  We grab the only available seats outside, as far away from already occupied open firepits as possible (not by choice).  It is goddamn cold.

He's cute!  He looks better than his pictures which is always a +.  He has sandy blonde hair and could quite possibly be more jolly and laughy than I am.  Very easy going, no pressure when talking to him.

Pros:

• Cute is good.  He had on a sexy motorcyle jacket too.  Not over the top and tasteful.
  
• Seems very motivated and driven; likes his profession very much (he's an architect).  Going to grad school right now for that too.
• Found out that his parents raised him to be very independent and to do his own shit.  For example, he started making his own lunches since he was 8 (okay okay, I was spoiled and my mom made me lunches, sheesh!)
• Conversation flowed readily.  I can be rather socially awkward at times and freeze up, but this interaction was easy.  Easy as pie!
• Oh he walked me to my car.  He said, "I'll walk you to your car."

Cons

• I believe he said he lives with roommates?
• A little TOO laughy.  I wonder if I'm like that!  It was almost weird to see someone so jolly, but I don't think it was insincere.  A weird example of this is when he called the night before to set a date time, I was at my parents.  And he started doing his really jolly laugh when I said "I don't see them that often, only a couple of times a month".  He said, "That's considered not often??  HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!"  That totally confused me because, really, why is that funny?
• He's not uber interesting.  Just a nice guy that was easy to talk to and I'm not sure if I'm interested in him romantically.  I can determine that on date #2, if he contacts me again.

And not because I like to play games or be the typical girl doing the waiting game, but I've decided not to actively contact any of the guys I'm dating.  It just takes up too much time.  I already have so many of them contacting me back that I would never have enough time for me.

He texted back the next day saying sorry he kept me out for so long (I was coughing and shivering all night long) but that it may not have been a bad thing.  I'm reading between the lines here, but I'm guessing he had fun.  I had fun, why shouldn't mister laughy have had fun?  I jest, he's a nice guy.  :P