Blind Date Advice?

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(Yes, some of those options are intended to be tongue-in-cheek humor.)

There's this girl who works at the coffee shop. She looks a LOT like Leeloo from Fifth Element, and she is both laid back and confident, and I always enjoy talking with her. Sadly, she has a self-confessed preference for overbuilt, shallow guys who inevitably treat her like crap, and even if I were her taste, I believe she's seeing someone now. She once told me that she is a regular [nude] model for a local independant figure-drawing group, and she suggested I join up since I'm working on improving my figure drawing skills. I, of course, never made it there, since I already like her enough without seeing her naked too - and it'd just feel Wrong. So yeah... FRUSTRATION.

Anyway, the other day, she mentions a friend of hers, and suggested that we have some kind of film night, so I can meet her. An informal setting, without the typical date garbage, sounds great. But I know four things about her:

1. She is a film buff. (Not to be confused with a movie buff.) While it makes me anxious to be at such a disadvantage, I really like girls who know things I don't.
2. She has individual frames of different comics tattooed on her arms, and is steadily getting more. Way Awesome! Unless they're all Garfield or Superman... o_O
3. She had largely given up on dating because it's so hard to meet non-alcoholics socially where I live. That means she's just as jaded as I am (yay!), and our mutual friend apparently thinks well enough of me to recommend me as an exception.
4. She works as a sales manager for MediaComm, the local cable TV company. BOO AND FAIL. They are GIANT, EVIL jerks where we are too. I'm sure I'm making more of it than I should, and even if she is a sales manager; I just won't bring it up.

Beyond that, my last relationship was three or four years ago, and the last year or two of it was a distant and loveless facade. So I'm understandably a bit out of practice on the love scene. But I'm entering a situation where I'll be in a dark room with a blind date, AND the girl I've spent considerable hours fantasizing about, at the same time. That on top of my already unusual preferences...

Any advice? :/

Blind date, hmm, my advice is don't make weird faces at them, they may have partial vision, and get mad at you.

My advice is "don't do it".
Simple as.

buh-bump.

I guess I would give the same advice as I would with any date. I am not really qualified as I myself am quite clueless, however, I am repeating advice given to me.

1. Don't have any expectations of what to expect.
2. Try to be interested in them. Ask questions about there opinions/interests.
3. Be yourself, express your opinions with conviction. This will show that you are happy with yourself.
4. Have fun, if their company isn't enjoyable for you, that's probably a sign.
5. Have an escape plan, I think a short first date is best, something low pressure.

Hope this is helpful, it was for me. I have been with my current girl for almost three years. We are quite different in our personalities but we definately love each other for who we are.