Alright GAF, I'm feeling sleep deprived, but oddly enough, those are when your best (and dumbest) ideas come to you. Now there's been a girl I've had my eye on and might like to date. I don't know her too well, but I'm on friendly terms and have probably established myself as something of an eccentric, which isn't inaccurate. However, as I have about NO experience with relationships of this type and little in the way of social conditioning to set myself up for it, I've decided to do something that is at the same time safe, bold, old-fashioned, and perhaps insane, but undoubtedly fits me.
I am going to write for her a heroic crown of sonnets.
For those of you who slept through literature class, a crown of sonnets is a series of sonnets about a specific subject or theme where the ending line of one sonnet is the first of the next. A heroic crown would be a 15 sonnet series where the final sonnet is each first line in sequence. Difficult stuff right there.
The plan is to handwrite them very carefully in cursive font (after composing them on a computer of course), and then sending them anonymously through the inter-campus mail system. I would be impossible to track, I would be able to find out whether she got them or not since I ride the bus between campuses with her every other day and can just as easily strike up a conversation, and it certainly is novel. The only thing I'm worried about is how it will go over. She SEEMS the type who would go for that romantic secret admirer situation, but I'm kind of flying blind here. The other problem is that this isn't just something you can use every other week on a whim, there has to be some premeditation for it. setting this up and then running it can and will be a rather precarious task.
So I seek GAF's advice. Is this just crazy enough to work, or should I find some other, less flamboyant way to get a little companionship?
I am going to write for her a heroic crown of sonnets.
For those of you who slept through literature class, a crown of sonnets is a series of sonnets about a specific subject or theme where the ending line of one sonnet is the first of the next. A heroic crown would be a 15 sonnet series where the final sonnet is each first line in sequence. Difficult stuff right there.
The plan is to handwrite them very carefully in cursive font (after composing them on a computer of course), and then sending them anonymously through the inter-campus mail system. I would be impossible to track, I would be able to find out whether she got them or not since I ride the bus between campuses with her every other day and can just as easily strike up a conversation, and it certainly is novel. The only thing I'm worried about is how it will go over. She SEEMS the type who would go for that romantic secret admirer situation, but I'm kind of flying blind here. The other problem is that this isn't just something you can use every other week on a whim, there has to be some premeditation for it. setting this up and then running it can and will be a rather precarious task.
So I seek GAF's advice. Is this just crazy enough to work, or should I find some other, less flamboyant way to get a little companionship?
I'm still going to try
