Xenakis Approaches Three Sets in Dupont Circle

Xenakis and his wing approached three sets last night, exceeding their goal to approach two sets and remain with them for ten minutes of more.

After chatting a bit at Baja Fresh with his wing, the two went on to a bar near Dupont Circle. Xenakis was initially treated rudely by a woman standing by the bar, but his wing pointed out later that she was with her boyfriend. The first "real" set the two approached was a three set of interns working for a US Senator. Xenakis's wing walked up and started signing to one of them. "I wasn't sure what was going to happen," Xenakis commented. In fact, the girl started signing back.

Meanwhile Xenakis talked to the other two girls, a cheerful, snug intern from Maine and her quiet friend. "I feel bad about leaving the quiet one out of the conversation," Xenakis said. "But the more talkative one kept asking me all of these questions." When Xenakis asked her to tell him a story, she replied "that a little demanding." Xenakis proceeded to tell another story, but by that time they were bored and other interns had walked into the set.

"I should have SOIed a lot earlier," Xenakis reflects. "That would have kept the interaction more interesting. But I couldn't find anything *sexy* about her. She was definately *cute* when she made this face at me, though. I could have told her she was cute, and used that as a stepping stone to getting her to do something sexy later on. In retrospect, there was actually a lot of kino." Meanwhile, Xenakis's wing number closed the third girl in the set.

In another section of the bar Xenakis's wing again approached a three set with the sign language opener. Not long into the interaction the set doubled in size as their guy friends rolled in. Unsure of the relationship between the women they were talking to and the new men in the group, Xenakis decided to focus his attention on them. "It turned out they were just friends. I actually liked them. While we were talking, there was this massive influx of hot women in the bar. We joked around about that."

Xenakis approached the last set at Cosi, a pair of thirty-something women, a civil rights activist and her friend. "Like the mother and daughter he approached sitting at the same table a week ago, these two asked me where I was from. I think there's something about Cosi that makes people think I'm a tourist, but it always leads to good conversation."

At 1:00am Xenakis and his wing parted ways. On the Orange Line back to Virginia, Xenakis spotted a floppsy. A group of ten George Mason students, returning from a Dashboard Confessional concert, all took off their shoes at the same time. "Those shoes must be terriblely uncomfortable!" Conversation commenced into discussion about music and fashion. Xenakis paraded around in one of the girls' shoes. "I really wanted to talk to the cute ones on the other side of the car, but I couldn't figure out how to tactically get out of the set I was in. Then I AMOGed this guy by accident. He was boasting about how his pin stripe blazer was from Nordstroms. It leaked out that I saw a great blazer that looked just like it at a thrift shop. Then I started feeling sick from my red bull and vodka and had to go sit somewhere else."