Wasted!!!



I definitely need to put more effort and enthusiasm into my dating and blogging. I have been in a shitty mood as of lately due to frustrations with work. After 6 months at my new job the novelty is wearing off and I am getting bored. Ugh! Part of this may be due to the vacation effect. Just get back from Jackson Hole, Wyoming and I am having trouble readjusting. But those thoughts belong in another blog even though its hard to go out and date when you are a little dissatisfied with life in general. I will suck it up and get on with it already. Saturday night I went on my on another date with another random internet chick. I pulled this one from OKCupid. OKCupid is actually a better site than I thought it was.


My most recent experience with The Onion Personals, which is powered by another site called Fast Cupid Personals, has been pretty shitty. The user interface sucks, and I shelled out 35 bucks for a “Gold” membership which doesn’t seem to be doing anything special and it seems not to many people even sign up for it. It seems like the standard users can’t even communicate with Gold users. I’ve gotten 13 messages from random chicks and after replying to them I never hear back again. Fucking Awful. I just found out its an extra 20 bucks to communicate with these standard members. What a rip! I am done with this site when my gold membership expires next week. However it looks like it won’t be a complete waste, as I managed to make one connection which will lead to a date.


So anyways, back to my date… This girl was definitely one of the cooler chicks I have met since the internet dating experiment started. On her profile, there is a picture of her with Mike Gordon from Phish. This is huge. I may not go see Phish anymore but I will always be a fan and identify with other fans. So from the get go, I knew she would be cool or at the very least we would like the same tunes, which is always a good thing. She is from the west coast, and has that laid back vibe which I totally dig. She is also in law school studying social justice. Those damn hippies always trying to save the world but she is half way done so she has plenty of time to sell out. On the looks side, the fact that Mike Gordon was in a photo with her kind of balanced out her less than spectacular pictures. One of the three I liked and she looked all cracked out and wasted in that one.


Meeting her person, she looked pretty decent for a plain Jane or crunchy hippie. Nice face, a little thickness in the neck which I didn’t so much like (not gobble-gobble but something a little concerning), but whole lot of thickness in the boobs which I did like. They were enormous! From what I can tell she wasn’t fat or anything elsewhere but then again I learned from the FUPA experience that a fit looking girl can be fat and you can never tell until all the clothes come off. At any rate, I liked her personality.


We met at a bar called Swift. I was uncharacteristically late but it didn’t seem to make a difference to her. We sat at the bar and had 3-4 drinks and bullshitted about this and that. Mostly trading wasted show stories, which is a favorite pastime of mine I have not engaged in quite some time. I felt like I could tell her anything which says a lot I guess. It may have been the alcohol speaking though. After it got crowded with cheesy peoples we headed over to Crocodile Lounge where we shared a pizza over a drink. After that, we did a shot and drank a beer. Now this is my kind of chick! That place too had a pretty lame crowd so we bounced. We then moseyed on to bar that she suggested called 119 which was around the corner from Irving Plaza. This takes the cake for being the lamest bar of the night. We sat and laughed at the some horrible dancing to 80’s music. We also made out a bunch. At that point we were pretty wasted, so naturally we went to another bar. The game plan was to meet some people at Mercury Bar, but it was possibly the cheesiest place in Murray Hill so we actually went to the Irish pub next store where we drank more. So finally at 7 hours later at 4AM she had to go home to get some sleep before a long day of studying.


This might be the longest first date I have since I started with this endeavor. It was fun I have to admit. Is there something more there? That remains to be seen. I think she good for now, and would make a great friend as well, so we will where this one goes…

The Two-Fer




I’ve been getting a little lazy here with the blog. I went on a date with this chick over the weekend and I neglected to write about it, but I ended up going out with her again, after she spent an afternoon texting me. This chick was my third OkCupid chick. So far the site has been a bust. I think I am finally ready to move on. However, this most recent chick is kind of cool. I think she is really good friend material, not so much girlfriend material though.


We have some shit in common: growing up on Long Island, and went to a decent school upstate (she went to Binghampton not far from but nearly as cool as Cornell). She’s a big pothead too which I guess is cool. Not that I am so into that anymore but I can get along with that mentality. She actually got me pretty baked on the first date. We met at a bar, had some drinks, and bar food. I got her to smoke me up as we parted ways.


I actually had a decent time with her the first go round. It was somewhat awkward at times but we managed to keep the conversation going. The same goes for tonight. We actually attempted to go bowling but it turned out to be a little too much money just to bowl a few games. I guess she wanted to pick up the tab after I paid for everything last time. We ended up going to Republic noodles and talking about tripping out and strip clubs. I guess I like the fact that she has that experimental streak to her. Then we walked around Barned & Noble which she dug because she works in editing.


The problem is I am not so attracted to her. I am tall and lanky and she is short and stubby. Though like usual in a dark bar and a few drinks I can get over it. I feel like this could be a FUPA repeat. I might try to plan the friend card though and hold out for something better. But on the other hand this girl is fun to get wasted with and you never know where than can go…