tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23035286393303739232024-02-07T03:22:01.631-08:00The Online Dater's ClubIt's not as if they're paying you. It's not as if it's fun.The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-9830819244996545232011-01-08T18:48:00.000-08:002011-01-08T18:48:08.359-08:00A bit of Brazil in wintertime BrooklynI submitted myself to a Brazilian wax treatment on Friday to bring a smile to the face of a new gentleman friend of mine who returns tomorrow from a month-long sabbatical to Southern California, (where said style is highly concentrated in particular valleys.)
Readers concerned with my emotional well-being and feminists have no need to fret that this action was a reaction to a demand or request.The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-38078625555468527862011-01-03T22:43:00.000-08:002011-01-03T22:43:49.854-08:00May you be written and sealed for a good year in the book of facesHappy 2011. It is my hope that all my readers took the marking of the earth's latest revolution around the sun as an opportunity to make out with someone.
2010 in review:
The Internet became an explosively popular forum for modern lovefare, but romance found in real life still wielded power enough to complicate and compromise operations for bloggers on this topic.
2011 Prospectus:
With GoogleThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-35734066052980655322010-12-26T19:36:00.000-08:002010-12-26T19:36:47.529-08:00Evidence that some Internet daters might be of the desperate varietyIt seems a lot of non-Internet daters view us as a generally desperate lot. While desperate correspondence is delivered to my inbox on an almost daily basis, those I’ve met with in real life are generally out to have an interesting time, or a sexy time, or a whatever time. Very few take anything too seriously. Even the pursuit of getting it in, and getting out is a halfhearted one.
As an The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-84416851521003297062010-12-25T08:32:00.001-08:002010-12-25T09:45:51.216-08:00Christmas eve with an atheistI had a Christmas eve drink last night with a West Village, sport-watcher, in-finance man. This is the sort of resume I would normally gloss over, but the enthusiasm of his cover letter was noteworthy, and I called him in for an interview.What I could of, and perhaps should have done instead:As with 80% of the men I've gone out with, his choice of venue was within stumble distance of his The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-75920794964081819662010-12-07T19:28:00.001-08:002010-12-25T08:32:04.558-08:00Still crazy single after all this yearIt was nearly a year ago that the Online Dater’s Club was conceived, as I licked my blizzard-time romance wounds over beers with friends doing likewise, discussing the prospect of collectively joining Match.Com and other dating websites. Despite our promises made over a drunken toast, only half of my snow-weary companions followed through that day, while the other half managed to work things out The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-23281059502677139282010-10-27T21:27:00.000-07:002010-10-27T21:44:59.130-07:00What's the deal with dating?Elaine: Maybe I should just get married.Jerry: Dating is really starting to get embarrassing isn't it?Elaine: I know. You know, whenever I'm on a date I feel people can tell.Jerry: People on dates shouldn't even be allowed out in public.Elaine: You can say that again.Too bad these guys don't exist in a world where you can make a date of watching old Seinfeld episodes.The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-83402888346459882822010-10-10T23:04:00.000-07:002010-10-12T18:49:36.597-07:00The other Facebook movieThere is another Facebook movie out right now called “Catfish.” Well not really a Facebook movie so much as a cautionary tale to anyone who uses the Internet for pursuits of the heart. I won’t delve into many of the details because one of things I hate most in the world are spoilers of narratives, I can say however that this movie will get anyone thinking about the nature of modern communication,The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-55946063845006987402010-10-06T21:27:00.000-07:002010-10-06T21:30:46.544-07:00Chaperone is French for no one is getting laid tonightMy friend asked me to join him and a new OkCupid lady friend last night for a drink. He left us alone to go to the rest room about a minute after she and I shook hands, so for lack of anything else to say, I was compelled to let her know that 1) I am aware they met on the Internet, and 2) I am cool with that.He expressed in advance a solid interest in the girl so it was great that things only gotThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-78867002666945761512010-10-04T13:32:00.000-07:002010-10-04T13:38:09.076-07:00Living for this shitI am having an online date blogger’s wet dream right now. There is an online date in progress taking place two tables away from me in a Washington, DC coffee shop quiet enough that I can track the progress of this date. I hope that the woman’s recent hip surgery and use of cane does not prevent them from having sexual relations in the very near future. Their body language at first made me The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-34049678976314841572010-10-03T21:24:00.001-07:002010-10-03T22:17:54.130-07:00More of a Princeton girl myselfA new dating service, DateHarvardSQ matches Harvard men with "discerning" paying female customers. Apparently founders Beri Meric and Philipp Triebel believe there are enough Harvard fetishists the world over who will pay $20 monthly to avoid use search engines on those "more cumbersome dating sites." They are right. It can be very tiring to do all that work yourself. All that typing of the word The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-9548472389611011452010-09-29T19:54:00.000-07:002010-09-29T20:00:37.873-07:00DoIn my last post I discussed how to create an online date profile. I hope my readership got enough from that lesson to at least get started on their own path toward a rewarding lifestyle of nervous anticipation, indignity, subjection to scrutiny, awkward socialization, horror when considering what your mother would think if she could see you now, and shame in the aftermath. I feared however that The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-7216343098068775892010-09-28T00:24:00.001-07:002010-09-28T00:26:13.391-07:00Don't you forget about me and my don'tsToday I auditioned to be an SAT prep instructor with Kaplan. This involved presenting a five-minute how-to on a non-academic subject. While I chose a topic I could sound knowledgeable on - the principles of budget-making - drawing up a budget is not something I have ever actually done in the "real world."Something I have done in the real world is create an online date profile. So in honor of the The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-36522886865448314042010-09-26T07:22:00.001-07:002010-09-26T08:01:24.146-07:00Dating under the influence of being brokeDating while destitute is a complicated social maneuver. I've perused the Internet for "dating on a shoestring" ideas, but the articles tend to focus on activities for long time partners, and are not realistic for people engaged in a series of first dates. It would be hard for example to finesse the suggestion of sitting in the park by a hot dog vendor that takes food stamps. For one thing, firstThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-30663472674537393352010-09-23T05:45:00.000-07:002010-09-23T12:47:08.284-07:00Lonely Hearts Book Club BandwagonThe following news piece from the WSJ, You're Reading that Too? Marry Me has just come across my desk. Apparently there is a new dating website, Alikewise, that matches members on the basis of literature preferences. While I commend the founders for keeping the service free (just like libraries!), I am skeptical of the merits of such a matching system. Don't get me wrong. I love books and shit. The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-20616603828300577162010-09-22T20:52:00.000-07:002010-09-22T20:54:43.853-07:00SAT Analogy PrepIf fat people in real life look like average people in their profile pictures, then fat people in their profile pictures are...?The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-78843841333245369662010-09-09T20:53:00.000-07:002010-09-09T22:37:56.865-07:00A fatty makes new friendsThe work schedule that kept me busy on nights and weekends and my flirtation with dating a person from real life spared me the horrors of the creepy world of OkCupid for a spell. I find myself less bold now. To have strange encounters with a strange person I will see once seems to require a social muscle set that has atrophied. This is a good thing however. This muscles-of-a-human-male-graph The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-42180665745472776782010-09-07T21:04:00.000-07:002010-09-07T21:12:06.002-07:00Hey youMy away pseudo boyfriend or whatever he is has been keeping in touch with me pretty regularly and I welcome all his calls, but he's apparently not reading my Online Date Club blog where I talk about how I am mad at him.I have a forgiving spirit. Especially for people whom I like like.How a lady looks when talking to men she like likes.P.S. hey guy, if you have read this and you're just choosing The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-23513955667871694972010-09-06T07:01:00.001-07:002010-09-06T07:30:13.053-07:00A Very Happy Labor DayI have three days left of census work before America is counted and I will be on permanent Labor Day. Celebrating in this manner is a rather frightening prospect in a city where a taco can run you $10 if you are not careful. So what will I do? I will file for unemployment benefits and for food stamps. I will still however be desirous of wining and dining in a manner that the government does not The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-58863301655132085672010-09-01T21:01:00.000-07:002010-09-01T21:53:26.161-07:00When Irony Is CruelIn my last post, I mentioned that my current relationship exists only because of the long-distance factor of his real relationship. Ironically we are now apart too. This makes me think our relationship is not one anymore. Or at least at-risk. To emphasize these concerns, my paramour left NYC impromptu style. Already on the road, he informed via text message that he had peaced. Then dead Ann The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-77873304056744403362010-08-28T15:20:00.001-07:002010-08-28T17:13:33.864-07:00Brooklyn has been counted, now I am backI've got great news for lovers of my love life. My job with the Department of Commerce, U.S. Census 2010 will be ending in the near-term, giving me more time for dates, more time for their documentation, and (here is where you come in,) more blog. Congratulations to all of you.What does this mean? Basically more gory details about my new gentleman friend and our interactions delivered here. As The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-52959796109021203152010-08-18T16:16:00.001-07:002010-08-19T07:33:26.681-07:00Dating Tips and Wisdom of the Day:1. Plan your break up in advance so you can be cool, calm, and collected. But -2. - breaking up is no easy task to accomplish. Particularly if the impetus for your break up is something like "principles" and you are not a principled person. So -3. - when you fail to stand by the principles you only thought you had, you may as well make a day of it. Go to a museum with the person you are still The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-3569469290650362822010-08-09T05:41:00.000-07:002010-08-11T07:08:30.391-07:00While I was logged off...Let me tell you a story about a girl in love with online dating. With a smile on her face she would religiously check her dating inboxes late at night. With joy in her heart she would peruse the hotties search engine of OkCupid endlessly. Without frustration she would take impressively extensive train rides to meet men in far flung corners of Brooklyn. I was that girl. Now that love is gone as itThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-9611188294982889342010-07-28T21:52:00.001-07:002010-07-28T22:53:20.726-07:00You Talkin' to Me?I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before, but I'm going to preface the following by saying that the profiles that I write for these websites are amazing works of comedic art. So when a guy wrote me on OkCupid today who despite an obvious effort, was not particularly clever, I was, as always, indignant. His profile was a similar story. When lame comedy arrives in my inbox, I wish to say toThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-370372872944719682010-07-24T22:45:00.000-07:002010-07-24T23:50:27.637-07:00Saturday night is a fine time to blog about meeting losers from the InternetOn this Saturday night I am not quickly blogging these words to you while the hottie I am out with is in the bathroom, but rather, I am happily in my childhood home in suburban Maryland, away from the manifestations of my hubris. "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But thereThe Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303528639330373923.post-39740383776039149532010-07-08T08:03:00.000-07:002010-07-08T08:57:55.621-07:00Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they give you their real nameGiven that the population of Brooklyn alone exceeds that of DC by five-fold, it's surprising that the apparent user base of OkCupid in BK has not delivered much in the way of motivation for me to keep on keepin' on. Traveling an hour on a subway for a date that doesn't contain a modicum of joy is a failure at life itself. Sigh. It is true. All the best people to go on 1-3 dates with, trade The Online Daterettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117396850893135832noreply@blogger.com1