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The Dating Game Update: Not Winning/Not Losing

Earlier this month I wrote a couple of times about a game, an experiment, I was trying with Lucky Girl.  I haven’t mentioned it in a while though, and there’s a reason for that. It went really poorly. At first it was fun, looking at guys’ profiles for someone else.  I’d send her a bunch [...]

Patience. Yeah, That.

Observant readers will have noticed that my blog looks different today than it did a couple of days ago. Columns have shifted, pages have disappeared, fonts have changed. But please, don’t get too used to the way it looks today.  It’s still in transition. There are plenty of changes to come. And yes, this is [...]

How Long Is Too Long?

This week’s poll was inspired by, well stolen from Starangel82. With her permission, of course. You can see the original here. She’d met a man online and they’d been chatting and she quite liked him.  And was ready for him to ask her out.  More than ready. And it’s been her experience that men don’t [...]

My Date With the Very, Very Nice Man

“Back from my early date. He was a very, very nice man. A good guy. And cute. I wish I knew a very, very nice women to introduce him to.” I tweeted that last night, shortly after I got home from my date.  Just to be crystal clear, it was a perfectly fine date.  I [...]

The Worst Great Date Ever Redux

He didn’t call back.  I didn’t call him.  I stayed off the dating site yesterday, all day (which meant ignoring other messages), because I didn’t want him to see that I’d logged on but didn’t send him a message. I wanted to talk about what happened with a friend because, honestly, I really was confused [...]