You know, I've never posted in this thread, but with the other thread discussing self-harm I figure my romantic troubles need a lighter locale.
Well, I tried to ask out the girl in my stats class. I say "tried' for a reason: I figured out a neat way of bringing up the topic, and as I get past the set up (short version: she keeps a very busy schedule, and I propose a date as a break) and get to the moment of, I\fizzled out. I actually just stopped talking for a good couple of seconds, right in the middle of a sentence. She didn't seem to notice the implication (and I didn't give any indication that anything had happened other then forgotting my train of thought, although in my head I was in full panic mode), and what I ended up proposing wasn't so much a casual date as a hangout. That's not a bad thing strictly speaking (and under normal circumstances, I'd be pretty satisfied with that outcome), but it does mean that I'm unsure whether I've actually broken the barrier and explicitly indicated interest in her (which I wanted to actually go ahead and do for once). That's disappointing because the advantage to forcing myself to, well, actually go out there and ask someone out would be that I'd get an actual yes/no/maybe rather then just speculating in my head ad infinitum. She said yes, but not to the question I wanted to ask, and that makes me mildly sad.
It could be worse I suppose. She could have said no to even a hangout! That would've really shown I was totally off-base about her interest. She seemed happy that I had asked too, which is also a good sign. Again it's not the end, but I was hoping to know where I stood more definitively, so that's my mess up for the day.