10:01 PM 25/9/08
What's up, everyone? I know, I initially promised a new report every week, but for whatever reason I haven't been posting. Life's been busy as I juggle school and speaking.
It's been exactly a month since my first day of school. Where have I made progress?
Well, let's see:
In my first hour, there are no targets whatsoever. However, I've made strategic friendships with a few key figures in the room -- this cool, stylish artistic guy, this skaterish guy, and this cool big black dude. They're fun to just say "what's up?" to in the hallway. One of the best ways to show social proof, I've realized, is to have certain people between each of your classes to high-five, hug, or do a pound between each of your classes. I have a lot of these little insights that I've gathered, and I'll be updating my HS PUA Bible with them eventually.
In my second hour I've made a LOT of progress with the HB8 that sits next to me. Initially I was much too high energy with her and probably creeped her out. However, I've been steadily running game on her with a slower pace, and I'm totally in. Every few days I'd play a few paper games (tic-tac-toe, the shape game, and my crown jewel, MASH -- I'll need to make a detailed post on this because it's fucking golden)
One of the best things to do to build both attraction and comfort with a target in class is to pass notes like little kids. The more you exaggerate, the better. This works especially well for me, since I literally sit right next to her. What I do is I write a note, crinkle it up really dramatically, then start looking over my shoulder frantically, like I'm paranoid that someone might see me. Then when I'm looking the other way I toss it to her. Guaranteed laughs, and if she emulates your ridiculous behavior, take it as an IOI.
It doesn't matter too much what you say initially in the note. I usually opt for a "What's up cool kid?" and take it from there. Anyways, I've been getting IOIs up the ying-yang from this girl, so I number-closed last week and I've been texting her here and there. Two days ago she even told me that "she was going to invite me to a party, but she knew it was going to be a sausage fest so she decided not to."
Ding ding ding! The girl was going to invite me to a party. I swiftly thanked her and told her that "I don't do sausage fests.
" I predict I'll be chilling with this junior (she's older than me) soon.
Third hour has been slow. There really aren't any solid targets here. There's an HB6.5ish that sits across the room, so I've been very indirectly gaming her by just DHVing myself every day. I caught her eavesdropping on my conversation (I was in the middle of a DHV story or something) and she blushed and told me "that it was hard not to." Yeah, whatever, I own that class.
Then, at lunch, I have a dedicated fan base. I literally have these two kids at my table (a guy and a girl) who have been fighting over the title of "Blues's best friend." It's greatness. I've been packing my own lunch recently, but I think I'm going to start getting hot lunch, since it's an incredible way to meet new people.
In last hour I have one target, who has great music taste, so I instantly became interested in her. She tends to laugh extra hard when I'm around her in hopes of getting my attention, so I'll take that as an IOI. I'm trying to figure out a way of stealthily gaming her. Also, the cool Asian kid that sits next to me is one of my best friends -- definitely a cool kid, he invited me to a pool party last weekend but I had to decline since I had other shit going on. Life is good.
In short, at the end of my first month, I'm making some serious progress. Number-closed the HB8 in my second hour and she offered to invite me to a party, I have kids fighting over being my best friend, and I have a bit of a challenge in my last hour. Oh, and I'm taking Driver's Ed now too, and there's a HB7.5 that I started talking to yesterday. She looked really uptight, so I opened with "Uh.. you okay?" "Why?" "Well, you're just sitting there like this *exaggerated uptightness*" She laughed and said that she was cold. I laughed and introduced myself, we shook hands, I turned it into a thumb war, whatever. It's off.
I'll start posting some of my routines and stuff that are specialized for high school/classroom game later, or I'll just update my HS PUA Bible.
Peace, love, and rock & roll,
Blues
CHAT