Rejection!
I forgot to mention. I got rejected last night. Slightly. But enough to make it worth reporting, because I believe in cataloguing my failures to prove to myself that I'm trying hard enough to actually fail.
Chet and I were discussing success at one point and I told him the story of playing hockey and learning to skate. My dad said "if you're not falling down sometimes, you're not trying hard enough." I immediately understood it, but misapplied it by falling down at random. This didn't help my growth into a good player at all, so I stopped falling and started pushing things 150% farther than I thought they should go. I started falling again, but with much better results. It was more random, it always surprised me, and I always picked myself back up and threw myself back at the game again.
Last night was one of those nights. Since I started talking to strangers, I've been having a lot of fun with, well, just talking to strangers. Easiest way to get a name and a quick test for whether you can capture attention is to ask two questions:
1) What's your name?
2) Would you watch my drink to make sure nobody roofies me?
Which worked 100% of the time until last night, when the woman I asked, a pretty but thick blonde girl, gave me her name and then said "I'm only going to stand here until I get my drink, then you're on your own." While I appreciated her candor, I do remember thinking "hey, you're not cute enough to be rejecting me like this..."
I don't think there's anything I could have done, well, short of having a whole conversation with her and amping her up to what a great guy I clearly am. But since that wasn't happening, I chalk it up to a rejection.
And you know how badly I want to chalk up rejections? So badly that I'm adding a new "rejections" category here. That's right. You'll be able to see all of my crash and burns with a single click.
Mistakes, I will learn from you.