Okcupid lunch date #3 The Mathematician.

We were IMing for about a week. We had decided on Tuesday we'd have a Scrabble date at the Starbucks by my house on Saturday, early evening. Fast forward to Thursday night we were texting and it was so great, he's ridiculously sweet and charming. He was really into me. So I said, Hey wanna meet tomorrow at noon? That way I can see that you're real? I'll let you buy me a strawberry shake. I was hesitant to ask him, but I'm trying to be forward, especially since he's so shy. He was stoked, said Yes, of course!

He said he would be there at noon, and he sounded really excited. he Google
mapped it and planned his route (adorable).

The next afternoon he's at the rendezvous sitting at a table. He sees me walking toward him and turns dark red.

oh man. he's so gorgeous. Like an Abercrombie model. Not so much American Apparel, he has a great glow about him. Very healthy and fit and his eyes are like big dark oceans. and he's BRILLIANT. He just came back from Moscow, where he had been studying 1st year grad school math. He's like, wicked smart.
I'm not quite sure how socialized he is, though. I can deal with that, however. If anyone can socialize this boy, it's me.
Every time he looks at me he stutters, and I get the feeling he's really really on edge. He was so nervous he was making me nervous.
So I do all the disarming, quirky-cute things girls have to do to put guys at ease. There's nothing worse than knowing you're intimidating someone. Makes me feel too alpha. I wanna be the girl, not have to run the show, 'na mean?

We talked about a math problem I've been trying to work out in my head for the past couple of days:
If 3 couple enter a conference room, with a table in the middle and 8 chairs around it. If all 6 people are blindfolded then walked randomly around the room and sat down randomly all at once, what are the odds that any 1 couple will end up seated together?

He assured me he would solve it, then tell me the equation.
I was forward. At the end of lunch I asked if he still wanted to play Scrabble and have coffee tomorrow evening. He beamed and said, 'Yes of course!'
I told him to let me know tomorrow. I was having a hard time reading him, so I wanted to make it clear that he should let me know tomorrow if he still wanted to meet up again.
The next evening it was 6 pm and I hadn't heard from him. I shoot him a one word text: "Scrabble"
He responds about 10 minutes later with: "Sorry, I can't. I have 2 papers and a presentation due on Monday."
And that was it, apparently. No idea what that was about. Maybe he's just super busy studying? He's getting his master's and I know he's really busy with that. Maybe I was too intimidating. Or maybe he's just not that into me.

Meh...we'll see what happens.