This is my first post here. I'm wondering if anyone can try and help me to salvage this Persian chick with whom I have gone back-and-forth for about a month and a half now.
So, here's the situation: I met her at a professional school Formal (she worked at the venue) and had some solid 1-on-1 with her for about 10-15 minutes. We laughed a decent amount and shared a few things in-common. She has lived here (DC) for a few years. Anyways, I sent a "Thank You For Your Help" e-mail after the Formal and went to Europe for a month.
When I returned, I sent her another e-mail to invite her to go see this Persian Art exhibit with me. She wrote me her number. We went, had coffee, and had frozen yogurt all during the day. In my opinion, we hit it off. We laughed, exchanged some pretty private stories, and things looked good. Before we went out she let me know about tickets that she had with her friends to go to some dance performance for her work (she works for an art/performance gallery).
I told her to call me after that if she planned to be in DC so that my friends could meet up with hers (and so that I could start to work on her a little more aggressively). She ended up going to Clarendon, didn't text, but let me know 2 days later (when I texted her) that she wasn't in DC so she didn't let me know. Interesting.
HERE IS WHERE I FUMBLED (again possibly?)
After 3-4 texts that day (2 days after our date), I asked her over for dinner and said that I was cooking. I used an exclamation point and I want to shoot myself in the God damned face. Such a bad idea. She let me know that her schedule looked awful (she works two jobs) and that she couldn't swing that. I then checked to see if she was available for my birthday party and got no response.
The situation sounds dead... however, just today, I received an e-mail from her today (almost 2 weeks after the date):
1) For pictures from the Formal event
and
2) To wish me a Happy Birthday
I figured that if this was truly dead, and she wanted to avoid all contact with me, she could've easily had someone else from the venue e-mail me. I need help with the next move here. I don't want to just flat-out say fuck it because I think that there is a small opening here. Also, I believe that the texting game has spoiled the lines of communication. Would a phone call go a long way here?
I'm interested to hear what the pros have to say. Thank you all very much!
So, here's the situation: I met her at a professional school Formal (she worked at the venue) and had some solid 1-on-1 with her for about 10-15 minutes. We laughed a decent amount and shared a few things in-common. She has lived here (DC) for a few years. Anyways, I sent a "Thank You For Your Help" e-mail after the Formal and went to Europe for a month.
When I returned, I sent her another e-mail to invite her to go see this Persian Art exhibit with me. She wrote me her number. We went, had coffee, and had frozen yogurt all during the day. In my opinion, we hit it off. We laughed, exchanged some pretty private stories, and things looked good. Before we went out she let me know about tickets that she had with her friends to go to some dance performance for her work (she works for an art/performance gallery).
I told her to call me after that if she planned to be in DC so that my friends could meet up with hers (and so that I could start to work on her a little more aggressively). She ended up going to Clarendon, didn't text, but let me know 2 days later (when I texted her) that she wasn't in DC so she didn't let me know. Interesting.
HERE IS WHERE I FUMBLED (again possibly?)
After 3-4 texts that day (2 days after our date), I asked her over for dinner and said that I was cooking. I used an exclamation point and I want to shoot myself in the God damned face. Such a bad idea. She let me know that her schedule looked awful (she works two jobs) and that she couldn't swing that. I then checked to see if she was available for my birthday party and got no response.
The situation sounds dead... however, just today, I received an e-mail from her today (almost 2 weeks after the date):
1) For pictures from the Formal event
and
2) To wish me a Happy Birthday
I figured that if this was truly dead, and she wanted to avoid all contact with me, she could've easily had someone else from the venue e-mail me. I need help with the next move here. I don't want to just flat-out say fuck it because I think that there is a small opening here. Also, I believe that the texting game has spoiled the lines of communication. Would a phone call go a long way here?
I'm interested to hear what the pros have to say. Thank you all very much!