Thursday, Feb. 23
Today is the big date, and you better believe I'm excited. I could be only eight or so hours away from meeting my perfect match. Have my date and I been exchanging anticipatory messages for the past few days? Sharing anecdotes and experiences? Creating fodder for tonight's conversation? Leaving each other begging for more?
Absolutely not.
Although I did get this message last night: "just confirming tomorrow night at 7pm." To which I responded, "yes, see you there." I wonder what he is thinking right now? Is he actually looking forward to this? I better come up with a good web of lies about:
1. What I do for a living (not work for Seed magazine. No reason to get on the Seed website. It doesn't even exist)
2. Why I haven't responded to his messages (I've been so busy)
3. Why I'm on Chemistry.com in the first place (looking for someone "special"/tired of getting "burned"/fed up with the "bar scene")
4. Why I'm going to betray the Chemistry.com "honesty" policy and blog about our date, i.e why do I wanna break his heart? (I'm dead inside)
I think I actually am going to take the website's advice and brush up on his profile. Then I can ask pointed questions ( "so...you mentioned that you've been alive for the last 28 years...how's that working out?")
Of course this is not to say that things haven't been jumping between me and other potential matches on Chemistry.com. I've moved on to short answers with at least 3 other guys. I can't wait to start a meaningful relationship with them. And I'll be able to say it all began with the questions: "What's the best vacation you've ever taken and why?" and "Who is your role model?" I'm not getting too many new matches now, though, because I refuse to release some of the gems that I've racked up. Most recently—and I'm tempted to use his real name—one of my new matches included 10(!) photos of himself, and the final one was a vaseline-on-the-lens photo montage of all the previous ones. Genius. He sounds pretty wonderful, is interested in getting MAs and PhDs (plural!) AND is moving to his family's "estate" in Pennsylvania. At first I was scared. I mean, why would someone with his credentials be interested in me? Sure I actually HAVE a Masters, but only one. I'm glad I kept reading his profile, though, because by the time I got to the end, all my insecurities were put to rest: He writes that I should "not be intimidated by what he wants." And you know what else? His Chemistry.com assessment says that he "doesn't like boring people." I think he must be a really eclectic individual, and since I "like to engage in creative theorizing," well...it's going to be hard to put this fire out.
On a less subjective (read, snarky) note I got a match over the weekend who seemed pretty normal (read, kind of cool). My profile says that I'm slender. His profile says that he's looking for girls who are curvy/more full figured. Huh. Does chemistry conquer all? I guess we'll find out.
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Friday, Feb. 17
Not much to report today. I continue to wait to hear back from my potential matches. Everyday the list of bachelors who have not reciprocated my advances mocks me.