Good Things About My Last Date with the Doctor (Monday night)

• Doctor is flirtatious, warm, and affectionate
  
  
• Doctor is serious, smart, kind
  
  
• Doctor wears tacky Polo shirt that makes him less godlike
  
  
• Presence of older, married couple who accompanies us provides calming buffer
  
  
• Doctor has progressed to kissing me on the cheek
  
  
• Doctor laughs appreciatively at all my jokes
  
  

Bad Things About My Last Date with the Doctor

• Doctor is flirtatious, warm, and affectionate
  
  
• Doctor is serious, smart, kind
  
  
• Doctor laughs appreciatively at all my jokes
  
  
• Doctor kisses me on the cheek only
  
  
• Presence of calming couple prevents The “You’re hard to get to know” Discussion I was planning to have with him, in the vain hope that he would see the error of his ways, shed his defenses, and declare that he has been waiting his entire life to meet a beautiful, brilliant Jewish woman like myself, and that he will stop lagging IMMEDIATELY
  
  

Good Things About My Last Date with Silent But Deadly Boy (Tuesday night)

• Dancing with wild abandon til 1 a.m. on a work night
  
  
• Doing other stuff with wild abandon til 3 a.m. on a work night
  
  
• Abundance of affection from SBDB makes up for very bad Loser-related day
  
  
• Abundance of affection from SBDB makes up for a lot of things

Bad Things About My Last Date with Silent But Deadly Boy

• Note from downstairs neighbor complaining about the noise in my apartment from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. Tuesday night
  
  
• Fear that something that feels this good can only end badly