One Week and Counting...

One week ago I went on a really great date and was excited for date 2. I know that I need to have a little more patience at times, but when someone tells you that they can't wait to see you again, you would think that you would make plans to meet up.

"Hurricane guy" and I have been texting back and forth - Saturday night while I was at my friend's wedding, Sunday when I was having breakfast with friends who were in town for said wedding, Monday around 6pm when I was still at work, Thursday morning while I got my car inspected...that's a lot of texting, right? In all of those texts, there was no mention of another date. There was still a lot of talk of wanting to see each other again, but no "hey - what are you doing this weekend? Do you want to hangout?" Nothing.

So I decided to take matters into my own hands yesterday afternoon. I asked him if he wanted to make plans to get together. He was amenable and we got a few texts into making plans for "sometime soon" - just about the time for me to say that weekends were best and to ask if he worked every Saturday since I already had plans for Friday...and then the text messages stopped. Nothing since then. I sent one more last night asking him to call when he had time so we could setup the next date.

Now I'm waiting for the phone to ring. And we all know a watched phone never rings.

I've been trying to hypothesize as to what may be going on in order to prepare myself for the potential of no second date:

1. He is dating other people as well and found someone he liked better. This could be a definite possibility. Because the week or so while we were planning to meet up, he had not checked his Match.com account. However, he totally checked his Match.com account earlier this week. I know because I checked earlier this week and it said that he had been active within 24 hours - so Sunday night or Monday.

This could also mean that he thinks that I might be dating other people as well, but you know that I'm not. And I know that I'm not. But I still have yet to totally understand the thought processes of those with a Y chromosome so I would hope that he would think that I'm not. I'm looking to date one person, not a thousand people.

2. Something I said in one of my text messages changed his mind. I don't think this is the case because I said slightly more controversial things while we were out. But if my headache/hangover on Sunday because I had way too much fun and booze hanging out with my college friends at the wedding, then it would never work since I love my college friends and they've been around longer. They are part of my life and no one that I barely know will change my relationship with any of my friends. They either join in the fun or go home.

3. His grandfather is sick again. This can't be it - he would have told me since he told me last time.

4. Abducted by aliens (to use a friend's phrase) - this is when a guy just disappears. Stops calling or messaging. This is quite a frequent occurrence, at least in my and my friend's experiences. However, he does write back on occasion. He hasn't been on Match.com since Sunday night or Monday so the abduction could have taken place around 4pm yesterday.

Hopefully I'll have either a date or some results of my hypotheses above. I'm really hoping to have the date and not the reason that he stopped texting during our attempts to set a date.