Sat next to a girl on the bus ride back to Champaign the weekend before last. Let’s call her D. Struck up some conversation on books after she saw my book cover. Talked about this and that, and once we were nearing campus again, D asked me for some dinner before school started. At this point, I was feeling pretty badass, so I thought I would oblige her.

On the day of, I ended up canceling the dinner so I could hang out with Janu who had just come back into town and my other friends. I think the badassery wore out by then. She called me the next day to reschedule. This was essentially the conversation we had. And then D asked me anyway: Still wanna hang out?

It seems more girls are taking the initiative nowadays.