[footfootfoot]

Sounds familiar and similar to our pseudo courtship. At least you guys are communicating online, yes? Would it be way out of line to say "Hey, I'm looking for a roadtrip, feeling restless and thought I'd hop on the amtrak and come up to Albany. Wanna pick me up and go to a movie? (Spectrum, right?) maybe not the best choice if she works there. Then you are totally hooked up if they still do those slide shows before the film. You could put together a bunch of slides with subliminal messages like:
grant is the most awesome guy ever, or
you will be grant's love slave, etc.

I'm sure you'll think of something witty.