stories, snow, and beer

So I went out with the crepes guy for a second time on Tuesday. We went back to the same place, but this time to the bar upstairs, where there was a Story Slam. It is this really cool monthly story telling competition in Philly sponsored by First Person Arts: http://www.firstpersonarts.org/. For each story slam, there is a topic. This past week was Emergency. As you go in, you can put your name into a bucket if you have a story to tell. Throughout the night, they pick out ten names for audience members to tell their story. They have 5 minutes to tell a story, and it is judged by the audience members.

We got there about an hour early to get a seat, because it gets really crowded. In that time, we talked ... and I found out that he doesn't drink. at all. He doesn't care that other people drink, and he was even in a social fraternity in college - he just doesn't really like alcohol and said that he doesn't need it to have fun. Fair enough.

The stories were all really good this week. There was actually a tie, and they had to have a story off. You can watch the video on the story off here (theme: underpants). http://www.youtube.com/firstpersonarts. They were both really funny. The original stories on the topic of Emergency came from a guy who talked about going to this weird bar to play his acoustic guitar and almost having sex with a random hot girl in the bathroom, which he said never happens, and not having a condom. The girl told this story about being in this acting school in Moscow and getting really drunk and walking home in Moscow in the middle of the night. She stopped in a bank to get cash and got stuck inside the bank, the alarm went off, people were yelling at her through the speakers in Russian ... it was funny.

Anyway, the date was really good. We are going to Dave and Busters tomorrow night. I've never been, so it should be a lot of fun!

I met another guy on Thursday at Royal Tavern. Even though it was snowing, he drove from the northeast. We had a few beers, talked for 2 hours.... he was nice, and I think I'll go out with a second time to make sure that I'm not blowing him off (hello new years resolution), but I don't think I'm attracted to him.

I'm hoping to go out with the med student this week. I had a really nice time with him, and I would like to get to know him better.

Also, upped my calories this week that I was eating. Set the livestrong.com thing to "lose 1 pound a week", which used to be set at 2 pounds a week. I hadn't lost weight for the first 3 weeks in February, and I was thinking that maybe it was because I wasn't eating enough or something. So I upped the calories I ate and I lost a pound!! I also went to the gym 6 times. On Friday, I went twice. I went to 3 yoga classes. Go me. (I also had 2 snow days).