And that alone was enough bistromathics to propel a spacecraft to the Greater Magellanic Cloud in about 4 and a half hours.

I rather like Pratchett's interpretation. There's a lot more to it than this, but I rather like the Law of Conservation of Reality: 'it takes the same effort to do something with magic as it would to do it mundanely'.

Related!

Is this a new David Lynch film?

Might as well respond, you've got nothing to lose. If, after a month of nothing, she still made the effort to respond, she hasn't completely ruled you out.

Sounds like a recent exchange I had. She replied a full month after my 1st message to her, and I wrote back with "Wow. Didn't expect to hear from you, like, ever :)" And then she said this:

I think your straight-forward response is always the best idea. Maybe asking if she's interested and making it clear that you're not going to be offended if she's not. Indirectness drives me nuts. If she's vague again, I'd give up. I'm way out of the game though, good luck!

I went on a lunch date today. It was a second date but this time he wanted to pick me up and take me to his favorite restaurant. So I made a joke about getting into the car with a relative stranger and was like, just please don't kidnap me because my family has no ransom money or something silly to that effect.

Oh my goodness. They cheep like little birds!

Just spent the whole day moving from on-campus housing into our new off-campus duplex. I think this is the most cleaning I've had to do in years. Dust! Everywhere dust! And we haven't even began to unpack yet! Moving is such a pain.

The guy I talked about last week? I loosened up about it and we texted all week, which was nice. But now that we've actually met in person, I'm not so sure about him...

Guys, give me some ideas for things to do with pretty craft paper. The local scrapbooking store went out of business and had a huge sale and....I may have gotten a little excited. See, I have a weakness for pretty paper. Also, I am NOT artsy at all. Go figure.

I have a serious case of the olds because I can't figure out this new format. Where the hell is Groupthink? How do I get permission to post there, once I can find it? I miss my people...

Mmmnot necessarily.

Give her time to decide if she likes you and go on more dates to decide if you like her. Don't contact her anymore and contact other people in the meantime to distract yourself. Online dating can be a total disaster if you take everyone at face value.

Currently feeling VERY incensed that my city apparently doesn't want to enforce the law when I happen to be the victim. Thanks for absolutely nothing, prosecuting attorney!

I say don't contact her again. If she is interested, she will get in touch with you. I will admit that I tend to agree to second dates even when I'm not interested, because it is really uncomfortable to decline. I agree that it's weird she responded to your follow-up message saying she's still interested, but she…

Get more irons in the fire.