Lookin' for love?

Sitting at home, alone, on Friday night fully planning to get through the remainder of Descartes’ Meditations I found myself browsing through the internet… and suddenly got a wild hair to try an online dating service…

Now I realize that I have previously mentioned this before and promptly shot the idea down. However, having the opportunity to yet again procrastinate this almost insta-slumber reading I decided to go for it.

I went to a site, filled out the requested information and then was shocked that you had to pay. I guess now thinking about it, that’s how revenue would be generated… but it never occurred to me that it cost anything, so after finishing my profile, I never paid. I am not going to pay for this thing that I am not that sure about in the first place.

The site that I am on still allows me to receive messages from prospective beaus and in addition you can send one line “ice breakers”, consisting of a limited predetermined selection to choose from. I was going to completely lie and tell you that I sent none, but I shall not do that. I did send a couple “ice breakers” prior to the realization that it was a Friday night and nothing would be more pathetic than some lonely girl sending out messages while sitting at home, alone on her computer on a Friday night.

I immediately quit then proceeded to go to the girls section to see who my competition might be. Everything’s gotta be a competition for me…

This last week I have received about 50 responses from interested guys. Please note: I did not say “interesting” guys. I almost started responding because I thought if nothing else, this would be great blog fodder. But I then realized how pathetic that would be of me busy I am for such frivolity.

One guy did stand out. In Buddy Holly glasses and a witty self description, I was intrigued, that and the fact that he didn’t mention my pictures once. Seriously I have had many guys refer to me as a hottie or say, “I checked out your profile and really checked out your pictures”… urg, no thanks. [Please note, I obviously didn’t post anything similar to the pictures that you have seen here… quite the opposite, in fact.] I sent him a reply message from the pre-selected one liners that I had an option of saying, “Looking forward to hearing from you again soon...” I assumed that he would respond adding his personal email or phone number in the text body, as many guys had done in their initial messages to me. (Thus not making me obligated to officially sign up.) His response? “A woman of few words I see.”

I am now even more intrigued. He isn’t playing my game, he seems intelligent and witty and he has created a bit of a chase for me. I love the chase. But I am unsure what I should do. It has been since the end of last week since his response, and perhaps he thinks I am not interested… and on some made-up principle I have decided that I will not pay to join…. But perhaps that’s a stupid principle. After all I was the one on a Friday night filling out this stupid thing anyway.




** There is more to come. I will be posting some of the messages that I have received from guys. Basic intelligence… or at least spelling and grammar check… have not been high on some of their lists… although there is a good chance that they were when they wrote it. **