THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2003
COVERSTORY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 9
Blind Date
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philosophical leanings because I'm a philosophy student. It's just that I hate it. It's a really terrible way of thinking, and maybe that's just me, but I think it's just incredibly selfish. That's one thing that's like really sticking out in my mind.
Cate: Do you think you're going to be able to get past that?
Jeff. Oh, I don't know. You never know,
but I'm just saying that that one thing like so far right now is like sticking out like a sore thumb. But I mean, other than that, she's very nice. You know, a little quirky — that's cool.
We were talking, and she was looking at the menu, and she's like, "Stop talking. I'm trying to look at the menu." I'm just like, "OK, I'll shut up for a little bit. You can look at the menu. I'm
"Usually I meet someone, make out with them and then get to know them. If I'm interested enough to make out with him, I'm probably interested enough to try to get to know them better."
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sorry," because I'm like distracting her from looking at the menu?
Cate: Sparks flying?
Rachel: Conversation comes easily. That's good. It's sort of awkward — not him — but the fact that the photographer and the reporter are sitting there at the booth. But it's good. It's not like I have to dig for conversation, which is always horrible because it's more embarrassing for yourself when you have to be the one saying. "Oh, how's the weather?"
Rachel: I hesitate to define myself as having a type because when I say I don't deviate towards something, I usually do.
Cate: So you're walking down Jayhawk Boulevard, see him, do you look twice?
When the two got back to talking, Rachel explained her personal objectivist philosophy. This conversation and other heavier subject matter they discussed such as family history always ended with the server's "How is that dip treating you?"
Cate: Is he your type?
Rachel: Um? Probably, yeah, yeah. He's a little more clean-cut than who I usually date but yeah. Everything's good to go.
Paradise Café tried to create a romantic
setting playing "Strangers in the Night" and by seating them in a booth secluded from others dining that wintry Thursday night, but this was all to no avail. There was no footsy under the table that I was aware of.
Rachel: I'm completely retarded when it comes to chemistry.
Cate: Do you think there is any chemistry developing?
Cate: How do you usually go about dating?
Rachel: Usually I meet someone, make out with them and then get to know them. If I'm interested enough to make-out with him, I'm probably interested enough to try to get to know them better. Yeah, I don't date much. It's too awkward, to set up in situations, too many obligations and expectations — not that it's bad. I just don't end up doing most of the time.
Cate: Have you found a lot of common ground?
Rachel: Um, we have travel stories. Uhh, we're both students at KU? (She sarcastically laughs.) He knows how to think, which is a positive thing. Some people don't.
Jared Soares/Kansan
ABOVE: Rachel watches Jeff attempt to knock down the pins at Royal Crest Lanes. Rachel later said the bowling experience with Jeff was "sterile."
LEFT: Jeff and Rachel take a break from conversation to order dinner. Rachel had to ask Jeff to stop talking so she could order her entree.
Jeff: Better, she explained the objectivism thing a little more. She seemed to make sense — sort of. She can handle herself for sure.
Cate: How's conversation?
Cate: Any attraction?
Jeff: I don't know — but that's never a good answer. I don't know. She's not my
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