I met a boy that I kinda like

Hiya blog. It's been a while, eh?

Well my world is pretty much same old same old. Only new news is that I met someone that makes my little heart go a flutter. Its too soon to tell of course, and I certainly don't want to jinx anything, but he's the first person I've met in the last year or so that even made me want to try and go for a relationship. I've been doing a fair amount of dating in the last 12 months. I met a lot of nice guys, but no one that I really wanted to risk interrupting my busy life for.

I met him on OKCupid a number of months ago, and we've just been kind of talking back and forth a bit. Finally we met for dinner last Friday. I will say that it was the first date where I was really upset when it ended. Usually, I don't really like first dates. They are ok and I enjoy meeting new people, but usually by the time the night is over-- I'm ready to go back to my little world. In this case, I was upset that I had to go back to my little world! and I think he felt the same.

So I'm going to go with the flow and see how this goes :)

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In other #randomFact news- I went jogging today as it was the first really nice day outside in a long time. I was listening to the song Wait by M83 (below) and started passing by this big lake on the Chickasaw trail in Shelby Farms. For whatever reason the combination of the song and beautiful scenery made me stop and just take it all in for a few minutes.

There was something profound about standing there and looking at this huge body of water with countless little ripples from the wind blowing across its surface. I stood at the shoreline and just stared for the remainder of the song -- wondering about the various sources of complexities and histories that lead to that particular scene I was witnessing. The endless bevy of climate forces and terrain features that lead the wind to display that _particular_ ripple pattern; the indescribable amount of information contained in that single tableau of experience just for that second; the fact that it took 14 billion years in the making to craft this single moment in time. It felt almost unfair and not respectful that the moment should pass without notice. As the song reached its climax at around minute 4:42 I unexpectedly began to tear up a bit. I wasn't sad-- I wasn't happy. I was just enjoying one of the great consequences of our biology -- a hallmark of humanity: emotionally experiencing something truly remarkable in the unremarkable.