Date & Dish

Hey, Student…hope you had a great weekend!
After doing some thinking, I think my decision to stop seeing you really came down to a few things. I am not totally against the idea of ever being in a relationship again. And I wasn’t totally against the idea of ever being in a relationship with you. But […]

Last night I met Data guy at his place before heading to a movie. Traffic was horrible on my way there, so once I arrived he met me at his car and proceeded to drive us to the theater. He had purchased the tickets online so we picked them up at the box office and […]

So I thought things were left okay with the Student. Then I got this big long e-mail from him, basically asking why I decided I didn’t want to date him anymore. Sheesh. Does it matter? It’s not going to change anything. He asked me what I’m looking for when I’m dating someone, and whether I […]

I met with the Student tonight. It went about as well as it could go, I guess. I hadn’t seen him in nearly two weeks, so there was plenty of time to kind of avoid him, I guess. We met at a café and chatted for a bit, making the obligatory smalltalk until I said, […]

After a lot of prayer and thought I decided I’m taking a dating sabbatical.  I already feel a liberation, an awakening.
It all started when I started going back to church.  Then after another execrable experience with online dating I took it as a sign.  Then other signs emerged.  California came calling.  Then my music came […]

Don’t you think dating is a vicious cycle? After dusting myself off from the German guy thing, I decided to get back in the dating pool. I’m never going to meet someone great if I don’t put myself out there, right? Unlike Paul, I don’t have much confidence that it would happen for me offline. […]