A Few Lessons Learned From Online Dating

So, you've finally found a few pictures of yourself where you look normal, just the right amount of attractive, but not showing much skin. Your profile is informative without being a novel and it represents your personality well with just a hint of your natural sass, but not too much so you don't scare people off. You've received some weird messages that make you feel slightly uncomfortable and now you're starting to send messages to the people you've decided are not so insane and happen to love the same Jane Austen novel and Justin Bieber song as you (and in my case, well, they're not unattractive...). Congratulations! Unfortunately, not everyone is as excited about your new-found time-suck as you are.

Here are some examples of what not to do:

Don't email your friends clips of profiles of people you found interesting. They're usually not interested.
Don't copy and paste the profiles of everyone you find mildly attractive or witty in to a document and send it to your friends on a regular basis. They have lives. They don't care. 
Don't make every conversation about who you've messaged or who's viewed your profile. The probably don't care. 
Don't deactivate your facebook only to substitute with creeping on the online dating website. This is counterproductive and defeats the purpose of deactivating said account. 

Do limit the number and length of your visits to said dating site.
Do limit the frequency and length of your discussions about online dating site.  

Basically, though none of the actions I listed is really terrible, everything in moderation. In my case, this should be amended to extreme moderation given my impending physics midterm on Friday and the lack of emails I've received from friends with respect to the number I've sent.

Happy Thursday!

Preparing Myself for the Savanna...

that is online dating: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/14/online.dating.netiquette/index.html?iref=allsearch

See above article for sassy online dating tips and thoughts on rejection.

Dating (Procrastination) Efforts

As the semester nears its end and the holiday season grows closer many of us find ourselves yearning for companionship, or perhaps looking for new and creative ways to put off our obscene amounts of work for the last two weeks of the semester.

The other night I went speed dating for the first time. I went with zero expectations which was smart because it was a hot mess. While the room where it was being held was full, the general population was severely lacking in Y chromosomes. I ended up going on a few "dates" with close friends and classmates who did not identify with the gender that I was hoping to meet. I also met some really weird guys. There was one guy who I thought was kind of attractive and we had a fairly normal conversation (as normal as two people can have in a loud, cramped space, with a two minute time limit). I would definitely go on a date with him but won't find out if he was also interested until I receive an email with the contact information of people who I approved and approved me (which I know I will get because my friends and I all checked each other).

I also met a pretty cool kid, not interested in dating him, but interested in being his friend. A fellow foodie from the area, into being active, and knowledge of good food in the area.

And tonight I created an online dating profile with a dating website for college students. I actually filled out my profile this time and put a picture where I'm not wearing my sunglasses.

We'll see if either of these actions go anywhere, but for the meantime they have/had a great humor factor. And if anything were to happen it would have to wait until I return to school for the spring semester because I have so much work to do in the next two weeks!!!!!!!!!

Any good speed dating or online dating stories or profiles to share? I'll leave you all with a nerdy pickup line I read on someone's profile: What's your sine? It must be pi/2 because you're the one. <-- math humor