Another shot at this chat thing

It's chat #2. With a different guy obviously.

Perhaps I should run out quick and buy a box of vigil candles and pray for a normal guy.

Ack. Small talk. I’m no good at this. My initial reaction to a conversation with someone I don’t know is, “Tell me something you don’t like about yourself.”

Perhaps I should cut back on the Nip/Tuck viewing parties before I become the strange and awkward one.

Ack! Someone else want to chat. No no no no. I'm too new to this! I can't multi-chat with more than one stranger at once!

We’re getting the basics. What we do for a living.

Sweet mother. In addition to being a student, the guy runs a talk show on the internet. Am I the only one that finds that strange?

Uh-oh. This guy just responded with a completely irrelevant comment. Must be a serial chatter.

Not real talkative guy. I’ll consider this an exercise in my journalism skills. Attempting to pry information out of the poor guy.

I feel like I’m five. Not that I was expecting some monster connection and we’d hit it off and be talking for paragraphs and paragraphs at a time but ew. I forgot how slow and awkward just getting to know someone can be.

Me: What other interests and hobbies do you have?

Oh he plays the guitar. Now this is getting somewhere. A majority of guitar players make me go weak in the knees.

Alas, not so much. I know guys have a tendency to suck at im’ing, but one might think that if you were in the beginning stages of the relationship, a little effort would be required.

Nope. Apparently not. I’d like a one way ticket out of this conversation please?