online dating – not for me November 2, 2008

so i did some research, and i’ve decided that i’m not ready for the online dating world.  the two guys i’d met online were looking hard for “the one.”  they had the “first dates for life” mentality; going on numerous dates a week, shuffling through girls every day.  And even though i THOUGHT i was looking for someone, too, i was wrong.  i mean, i AM looking, but i’m not looking to settle down just yet.  and it took me until today to realize that ALL the guys online past the age of 30 are looking for THE ONE, no exceptions.  and the guys who are my age don’t have their stuff together enough to garner my interest, so i’m taking a break from the online world.

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besides, i’m so busy i really can’t even handle my own schedule, let alone coordinating to make dates with someone else’s schedule.

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so i bid adieu to the online dating world for now.  who knows, perhaps i will venture back on it at a later time.  but for now, no mas.

awkward encounter #2 October 27, 2008

Sooo, in this post, i mention how great i am at getting into, and perpetuating, awkward moments. today, that little diddy replayed itself in my life, but with different lead characters.

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i was in the supermarket (WHYYYYY do these awkward moments always happen in the market?) after a double duty day of 8 hours of work and 3 hours of class, so i was a little in beta (aka low-functioning) mode. i was picking up avocados and squeezing them to see which ones were ripe when i heard a familiar, slightly nasal voice call out to someone nearby. i look up and almost dropped my avocado. it was my friend, too blond nick!

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too blond nick was this guy i met in my first year of undergrad. he and i lived on the same floor first year, and then during the rest of undergrad, i always managed to run into him over and over. after graduation, though, it was like he fell off the face of the earth. i literally had been thinking about him lately like CRAZY, and my curiosity heightened even more when i met a friend of his (who i never met in college) who was still in contact with him and let me know that too blond nick was still in town!

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i did everything i could think to resurrect him from the dead; facebooked, texted, emailed, but it was literally like he disappeared. but today, i literally ran into him over the avocados and it was so crazy! in any normal situation, i woulda hugged the fella and gone on chatting and chatting for as long as my breath was still going…but his wife was looming in the distance, shooting off some mean “back up off my man, bitch!” vibes.

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and so it was awkward. like, BIG time awkward. it was like seeing a long-lost sibling and not being able to hug them. and we both stood there, me with my avocados in hand and him with a loaf of bread, awkwardly shifting from foot to foot while his wife laser-eyed me from a near distance. and the conversation that i wanted to have; the one where i updated him on my life, on how i had met some people recently who he knew, of how i hadn’t had wahoos since that time he and i went, could never happen while his wife stood awkwardly by.

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so i guess it was more tragic than awkward…but let me tell you, in the moment, it FELT extremely awkward.

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