Each Day a New Step!

I'm actually really surprising myself these days. Talking down the guy in my costume class gave me a boost of confidence that isn't going away. Here's the story, which I think the only two people who read this have already heard.

There's this really cute guy I work with, I've seen him over the past month or so and of course never had the guts to talk to him. Waved to him a few times but that's about it. I wasn't sure if he was even gay. I decided I would try and find a way to ask him out yesterday while at work, there were a few problems with this. 1) He was possibly straight, just because he's cute doesn't make him gay, this is not Queer as Folk after all! 2) He worked in a different area than me, an area that I had no reason to ever be in. and finally 3) I'm a chicken when it comes to cute guys, even if I could get up the courage to talk to him I'd never be able to ask him out. Well today things worked out well for my plan.
I was asked to do something new at my job, something that required me to share a work area with him. For the first few hours there were these two girls in the same area complaining about everything, I figured it probably wasn't a good idea to try and find out if he was gay with them around. Finally they left, I cleverly used that as a cue to ask for sticky notes and introduce myself. (LOL Corny as hell I know, but it worked) Well after that we talked for the next three hours of work. He was awesome, we were able to joke about a lot, he had a good appreciation for music, it was awesome. The gay thing never came up, but I was pretty certain he was by this point.
Work ended and we walked out together, he had to head to the Q lot shuttle, and I to the South lot shuttle, so I figured if I was going to do it, that was the time. I asked him if he'd like to get coffee sometime. (WHOW!! GUTSY!!!) To which he responded "Sure, but only as friends. I have a boyfriend." O_O