misunderstandings and mixed signs

last night i was online with the french banterer briefly. per usual he got into his joking around of the usual variety. somehow i mustn't have been in the best of moods to entertain him. so i kinda told him off a bit that i was a lil tired of him trying to test me half the time.

i think that he must have gotten angry or something 'coz he went rather quiet. and then later he explained that he was just teasing me and not testing me. and that there was a difference. i don't know. maybe french for teasing is everyone else's testing.

anyhow i'm gonna just lay low for a while. i reckon i'm still supposed to meet him on sunday. somehow i think it's better when we meet up face to face as opposed to IMing.

the joke of it all is that he realised that i came back on the online dating site. so instead of getting any new winks or messages, what i got instead was an email from him via the online dating site that he 'saw my announce'. (*note there was no announcement of any kind but i think he just meant that he saw me back on the site)

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i was IMing with shy (now ex) colleague who like any good friend of mine, is aware of the kind of going ons with my family friend's setup. i told him that my family friend's setup asked if i could teach him this weekend how to swim more effectively. not that i have good authority on that. but just that i swim more than he does. i didn't take it to mean all that much though shy (now ex) colleague pointed out that my family friend's setup was trying to put in some effort and that him asking for 'lessons' was a smart way to continue to see me more by asking for more 'lessons'.

i'm not sure if i believe him. then again, he is a guy...

i guess i still can't tell if the meeting ups with my family friend's setup are with purely platonic intentions or bordering on the maybe future not quite platonic kind.