the setup continues and he is really tall
After the dinner party came the hike. Foreshadowing for the day came in the parking lot as he pulled into the spot next to mine. I waved and said "hi" and then ran like a startled rabbit to my friend's apartment. We all spent the day together, and I was, in my typical style, unable to effectively communicate with this new person. Alternating between short pained conversations and more running to the safety of my friends. I don't know how I have ever made any friends with my social anxiety issues, and who knows why he agreed to see me again after that. Most people don't hang around long enough to break through the nearly ironclad shell I've been constructing since junior high. After spending some more time together the last couple weeks, I have discovered that he is intelligent, nice, cute, funny and eats tofu. What more could a girl ask for!
And now for some math: he is 6'9" tall, I'm 4'11" tall (4'11" short might be more appropriate) that is a difference of 22", almost 2 feet!

the setup
One of my friends and her fiance are playing matchmaker with me and one of their other friends. It started a couple weeks ago when they had a little dinner party with six people. I had a bad head cold, but was required to go anyway. So, I took some kind of sinus drying medication and headed over to meet my fate.

For an introvert like me: six people + small talk = small nightmare. Everything sounded like I was underwater and the postnasal drip was brutal. I managed to grunt out a few sentences throughout the evening, in my oh so attractive sick voice, but I really feel the highlight of the evening was when I got pollen from the lilys all over the front of my shirt. It looked like I had rubbed a bag of cheetos on myself, again, very attractive. I'm not sure how I feel about all this, we'll see.