Thursday, January 28, 2010

Secret... Admirer?

Last night I was chatting with one of my fellow RAs, Akshat. Akshat is quite the character, and a bit of a gossip/drama queen. Therefore, he was delighted to relate to me an interesting encounter that he'd had.

Apparently, he had been walking along in Loftsgard Hall, having a casual conversation with a girl (I say casual because he doesn't remember her name, so how intense could it be?), and he mentioned my name. At this point she got all excited and said "Michael Peske, the RA from R/J? Omigosh!" According to him, she was somewhat infatuated with me.

The eager, puppy-eyed expression with which he told me this story, along with the claim that some girl had the wild hots for me, made me instantly suspicious. So naturally, I called bullshit. "Bullshit."

"Oh no!" he protested. "This actually happened! I'm not lying!"

"Oh." He seemed sincere. Wait a minute. "No way, I call bullshit!"

"It's the truth!"

"Really?"

"Really!"

Hmm.

Naturally, my mind goes into detective mode and I go down the list of possible suspects. The list isn't very long. None of them seem likely candidates. So I take a look at the facts.

Fact 1: Location. Loftsgard Hall. Houses various flavors of plant science departments.
Number of girls I know who are majoring in plant science: 0

Fact 2: Bouncy. If Akshat's retelling of the encounter is indeed accurate (knowing Akshat, it could have been embellished, but due to the lack of other facts, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt), she used the phrase "Omigosh" in true infatuated bouncy-girl form.
Number of bouncy-girls I know: A Few

Fact 3: Title. She referred to me as "the RA from R/J?". Nobody I know well would really refer to me like that. Probably not anybody I only somewhat know, either. And since I don't wear an "I'm an RA" sign around campus, it couldn't be anybody who had just seen me (or gazed longingly from afar at me, if you want to be poetic about it) walking to class and back.
Number of girls I know who would refer to me as "the RA from R/J?": 0

Possible suspects: 0

Okay, so detective work failed. Maybe it could be a friend of one of my residents or an RA that I might have met briefly at training earlier this year. Frankly, though, I'm clueless.

The best is yet to come, though. Akshat, saving the juiciest bit for last, continued on. "The best part was that she didn't say 'Omigosh, he is so dreamy!' or anything like that. No, she said 'Omigosh, he's so boyish!'"

Umm... huh? Boyish? Boyish? Is that an insult or a compliment? Honestly, if a girl walked up to me and said "You are so boyish!", I would probably take it as an insult. There's more than one possible meaning of the word, but none of them seem very good. She could have meant "you are very immature" or "you look like you're 12 and I want to pinch your cheeks and watch you squeal and run away". Maybe someone can explain to me how to put a positive spin on that remark.

Bottom line is that I guess I have a secret... admirer? Question mark?

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Take it as a compliment to your boyish charm. Note that she didn't use the terms "immature," "juvenile," or "prepubescent." Therefore, I think you can conclude from her apparent overall approval of you that she is referring more to your playful/carefree attitude, mischievousness, or overall roguishly handsome looks.

Take the compliment, buster.