Date #17 - Steve

Steve was also one of the early emailers and he went to Japan to visit his folks over the holiday break.  Yes, he's white and his parents live in Japan.  Steve speaks fluent Japanese.  How sexy is that!

Throughout our email exchanges I could tell he was a really sweet guy.  He shared his stories with me of his trip to Japan and even offered to bring me back toys if I was looking for something in particular.  From his pictures I wasn't really attracted to him per se but I liked how mellow our emails were.  It was almost like writing to a pen pal buddy, where there was no indication that we were trying to date which took the pressure off.  And for some reason I had it in my head that he was short.  

He was tall standing at 6 feet.  And there was definitely something about him I found attractive.  I liked how he was slim but not skinny and he just had a nice standing form.  He was very, very soft-spoken but it was rather nice.  We met at Ramen-Ya on Olympic.

I was a fucking mess.  I think I still had my fever at that point, I'm wearing glasses since I'm doing lasik next week and I'm just not in top form.  I kept apologizing to him for being a mess but he kept dismissing it saying I seemed just fine.

Pros

• I find him attractive.  He's not even that super good looking, but I am attracted to him.  I suppose that is what you call chemistry?
  
• He's really thoughtful.  He knew about me getting a pig keychain from Yoshinoya in Tokyo and that I love Miyazaki films.   So he got me a Porco Rosso keychain.  It was so cute!!  And so very thoughtful because he remembered details about me and customized a small gift for me.  :D
• I like how he dresses.  He kinda has the edgy art thing going on, but kinda slightly skater-ish as well.  More edgy artish though, but I liked that.
• He speaks fluent Japanese.  How fucking sexy is that.  We went to Nijiya after lunch and he showed me some new things that I haven't tried before.  Love it!!
• I like what he does.  He works for this television company called Current and they aggregate news in a really quirky, funny internet-savvy way.  Internet savvy is ALWAYS a good thing.  Actually, I think it's impertive for me.
• Although he doesn't blatantly show he likes me, there are subtle undertones which I think is a sweet way to show it.  It's not completely masked so I can't tell (like date #9 Ezra),  and it's not blatantly spelled out to me (like date #7 Eli and date #14 Eric), but it's just innocent enough to be fun.
• Financially responsible.  He bought a townhouse with his brother.  Not a bad thing I'm guessing?

Cons

• Almost too soft-spoken?
  
• His laugh is kinda soft-spoken as well.
• He's got a pretty serious demeanor.  Not a super negative thing, but just his resting state is very serious.  My resting state is very happy-go-lucky and upbeat.  But I guess it would be weird if I guy were like that, that would be gay.  So okay, we can nix this one.
• Not crazy about his hair.  Kinda wild and curly and not short but not long.  It's interesting.

After a while I was starting to break down (the fever kicked up a notch) so I told him I'd better go.  He then proceeded to give me the keychain (so cute!!!) and we drove back to his car (we carpooled to Nijiya from Ramen-Ya).  He told me if I felt better that I should give him a call so we can hang out.  He gave me a hug and I drove away.

He texted a few hours later saying it was really great to meet me and that he hoped the doctor gave me drugs to fix me.  He also gave me a bunch of links to watch some interesting videos which if I got bored staying home all day.  Again, how sweet is that??

I think I'll do a date #2 with this one.