4/19/2014 1:00 PM
Disclaimer: this is my first "field report" so it may not follow the usual flow you're used to. If you have feedback, I'd appreciate it.
More than anything, this is a place for me to collect my thoughts and reflect on what I'm doing right, and wrong.
I went to the dog park today with my dog and tried picking up a few girls. Here is a brief of how that went.

Girl#1
The first girl was sitting on a rock and had her two dogs there. We chatted about our dogs, why we like the park. Mostly just boring things about our dogs, never about each other. In the heat of the moment, I can't seem to find very flirtatious things to talk about. We talked for maybe 5 minutes, then she left. This left me thinking what I could have done differently. I realize that I need to be more playful. Maybe make fun of her or say more silly things. It might be a lack of creative thought. I'm going to improv classes to work on this. I don't have a problem holding a conversation, in fact, I'm in sales and that's a lot of my job. It's just that it never builds any attraction, and I may have too much anxiety to show I have attraction to her. This girl ended up leaving shortly after our boring conversation and I didn't get a name or a number.

Girl #2
I walked down the stream a ways and found another girl chatting with a guy there. I stood on the other side of the girl, and started talking to the guy across from her. Ignoring her for the most part and just talking to the dude. Then after a few minutes the girl started asking me questions about my dog, and me. We kept chatting about where we're from, what we do for work, etc. Eventually, the other guy left, which was a success. Then I hung out for another 30 minutes or so, because that's how long I typically stay there with my dog. Our conversation degraded into me mostly asking questions about her, and she not reciprocating with any interest. I was ready to go, then she got up and said she was leaving, which I probably mistakenly said I was ready to go too, and led the way. During our conversation earlier, I asked if she had plans for easter and she said she didn't. On the walk back, I offered her to come hang out with my friends for an easter egg hunt, since she said she was relatively new in town and didn't have many friends. Then she said she was going on a 100 mile bike ride (she does triathalons). We talked a little more about other 100 mile races in the area, boring shit again. During our conversation, I found out we go to the same gym, and I told her she should join me for one of the classes I do. I told her I'd add her on facebook to let her know when I was going. I asked for her last name, but she said she'd swing by the next class and walked in the other direction. It seemed like she really was wanting to get away from me at the end.

Background on me: I've mostly had long term relationships, and usually met girls through friends, work, or school. Pick up and flirting are a very new thing for me, and I still have a lot of anxiety, and difficulty putting myself in the right frame of mind. I'm not unattractive, and I have no problem closing on them when they're already interested in me, which happens regularly enough, but I have no idea how I get them to that state, or if it's them picking me up...

As I said before, any feedback is great.