Bare Naked Larry

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

China Girl

I now have a girlfriend. We met Friday night dancing. I hadn't expected things to move so quickly, but they have. She called me last night to come over to the quad and see her. By the end of the evening we decided to try the boyfriend girlfriend thing. We had exchanged a couple of short emails on Monday and Tuesday, so it's not even like we spent the weekend getting to know one another.

Still I'm optimistic that things will go well. I pretty much disclosed all the manufacturing defects that come with the product called Larry and that didn't scare her away. Her name is Helena and she is a graduate student studying economics at U of I. She is also from China. She has a very think accent but her English is better than I first thought from when we met on Friday, then again loud music makes conversation hard with anyone.

I don't need a lot of cautionary notes about how she may be more interested in being American than in being my girlfriend. I confess she pretty much threw herself at me, but she is smart, pretty, and pleasant and that has been a hard combination for me to find. I'm not unhappy that things are moving quickly, but I'm wary for this reason as well. She seems unhappy with the certain aspects of life back home and seems very much to crave attention. Maybe she would be unhappy that I have any reservations that things might not work out, but I have been in a lot of relationships and it is often the women that express the most interest initially that turn out to have the most issues in the long run. Not that Helena should be this way, but I do think there is a certain type of woman that tries to win a man over quickly before he discover flaws that might scare him away. Helena need not be perfect for things to work, everyone has flaws of one kind or another, I just hope she doesn't feel like she has to try too hard to keep my interest.