June 06, 2005 - 8:18 p.m. An interesting thing happened to me on the way home from Kep today. A guy followed me out of the computer lab where Ryan and I had been working on our presentation for Wednesday. He began talking to me, asking about my majors, inquiring as to my name. I asked where he was from, and it turns out he's from Angola. His name is Gabriel and he's studying petroleum engineering (I think) and political science. Anyway, in the course of our brief discussion, he told me that I was very beautiful, especially without my glasses. (He had seen them off while we were in aforementioned computer lab.) He asked me to take them off again, and I complied. Then he wanted to know what I did with my freetime, weekends and such, and whether I'd like to go see a movie with him sometime. I was honestly flattered at being told I was beautiful by an absolute stranger then promptly asked out. Though we all know how this ends; even if I hadn't been involved with Spencer, I would have politely refused because I don't date random strangers. In the end, he said it was good to talk to me, and I said it was nice to meet him, and we went our separate ways. But it's a rather happy moment, thinking that some random person found me beautiful. It must have taken some guts to ask me out. Did he think I'd say yes? Ah, funny things. ...before & after...