Remembered at the last minute that I'd been invited to a Christmas party in the city, so off I went on my 1-hour drive into town. Found my buddies in the club, got a drink at the bar, found the crowd to be unusually young and very dense. Me + one of the guys decamped to a less crowded part of the club.

I noticed some cool artwork on the walls, paintings of people done in the style of exaggerated caricatures, saw one of a skinny goth girl with black hair and a particularly morose expression. To my right was this slim black-haired HB8 (you can guess what's coming next) who had this loser dancing like crazy in front of her. Was he with her? Dunno, and didn't care. I touched her on the elbow and said "Excuse me, can I ask a question?" She looked around and I slowly pointed towards the painting of the goth and asked "is that your picture?" She erupted into laughter. She was on her own so my wing slipped away after a few minutes and left me to it. Turns out she was Portuguese. Ran a few routines that included a DHV involving showing her a movie I'd made for youtube about a sport I'm involved in. (I made sure my iPod was up to date and fully charged before I left home, it's a great little tool for showing movies and DHVing.) Kept the set running for about ten minutes with plenty of C/F. Every lame question (where are you from/where do you live/what do you do) I was able to turn into a guessing game to make it more interesting. Threw in some kino by touching her earrings and asking what the story was behind them. She put on her coat after a little talk with her friend, so I used that as an opportunity to tell her to text me when she got to the next place so we can hang out, she asked for my number and I gave it. Could have pressed her to text me to test it and hence secure the # close for me, but it was just my warm-up set and I wasn't all that pushed on her. Then I did and FTC and pulled out.

Back at base I ran about three more sets including one interesting 2-set breakaway from an 8-set hen party, one of the 2 was a HB9 sitting beside a HB6, they'd muscled in on our seats as some of our people got up to leave. I moved in on HB6 and asked if they had been discussing tactics about how to steal our seats. She erupted into laughter and I continued baiting her by saying that I was going to reclaim the seats and I jokingly pushed her aside and they tightened up on the couch and let me sit down. I worked HB6 for a few minutes and got some IOI, HB9 started looking back to the group so I decided now was the time to rope her into the conversation. It was hard to keep her attention though, she sometimes would try to start an independent conversation with HB6 to freeze me out but I always had something more interesting to pull the proceedings back into my frame. I tried that painting routine on HB9 and it got a small laugh and not much follow-up, probably because this particular picture wasn't a close likeness. Eventually the two girls got up to use the bathroom but asked me to keep the seats, and I just let them work away. My buddies had moved off and I was on my own, so I texted my wing and summoned him back. The girls returned but didn't sit down, so I ignored them and looked the other way, searching for my wing. There was a bit of chat between HB9 and a new guy who joined our group but then the hen party left, no goodbyes for me from my 2 set.

Ran about three more sets in that place then we bounced to another bar.

I saw a HB8 sitting at the other end of the bar texting furiously. I walked over and asked "Excuse me, can I ask a question? Do you live in the area?"
I had her attention here, she said, "Yes. Why?"
"I noticed you in the area once before. It was a year ago, walking past in the street." There was a story behind this, and I developed it more as the conversation progressed later. Chatted to this (Hungarian) girl for about an hour, she ended up kino-escalating on me. I # closed her at the bar, walked her home to her door, and kissed her on the lips after which she said, "Oh I was just going to give you a kiss too." I tried to escalate the kiss to something steamier but she pushed back enough so I applied the brakes, said goodnight after promising to call her, and went back to the bar. After closing time I opened a HB7 that was sitting by herself as if waiting for someone, although I couldn't figure out who since there was nobody in the men's restroom. Turns out there must have been a second men's restroom because her fella landed back while I was in the middle of the set. Embarrassing! But I brought him into the loop, and he got a little dig into me about shaving heads. I laughed, played along for a bit, and said goodnight.

We bounced to a pizza place across the street. 4 set of 19-year olds (I'm 33) at the table beside us including a HB10 with eyes like Cleopatra and an unfeasibly beautiful rack sitting right next to us. I threw in a few negs while my non-PUA buddies did lame stuff like asking where they were from and where they live. When it came to my turn I got the chance to be interesting because I'm foreign. Some young loser guy comes in and starts hitting on them with his back to me, but HB10 seemed interested enough to keep leaning around him to keep me in the loop.

I pulled the plug on that set and we left.

I was very pleased with tonight's work. Tomorrow (Sunday) night I'm seeing the chick I hooked up with last weekend in the field report titled "F close after a few hours of work."

There was very little AA tonight. I was really on fire, I felt like I was in the zone.