She agreed to go on a date with me, and I’m kind of worried right now. An excellent response to good news. Very efficient.
Getting a yes is the part I wanted. Now that I have one, I’m discovering that “go on a date” contains an alarming number of smaller tasks. We’ll need a plan. At some point, I’ll have to speak. Ideally, more than once.
I’m already tempted to prepare enough conversation to qualify as a guest host. But I can picture how that would go: she asks a perfectly ordinary question, and I forget everything except the fact that I prepared.
The reassuring detail is also the one making me nervous: she actually wants to go. There isn’t a rejection to decode or a vague answer to examine. There’s a yes, sitting there, waiting for me to do something useful with it.
So, what should I do next? I’d like to suggest a date without making it sound like I’m coordinating a regional conference.
