Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

OK. Laurel and I are meeting at Bemelman's Tuesday night around 7. Who is in? On to Subway after, around 8, 8:30ish.

i'll be there! but, probably, significantly underdressed? i am horrible at dressing up. vp, i have no idea what you look like! wear a red rose?

also i kind of feel like i'm going on a blind date

Mary feels like she's going on a date, full stop. Yesterday she asked me if I had planned something romantical.

um i have a date now

Great!

disabled my account

due to success or frustration?

I'd like it to be success! quickly v intense while not rushing into anything not interested in seeing anyone else at all.

congrats!

I might be done with this site for good. I've had more luck meeting people on Fetlife than this collection of hopeless freaks (present company excluded, obv).

Great, rayuela. Laurel and I will be the two Midwestern looking people. Actually, on the upper east side that descriptor might not go that far. I'll message you my details.

Don't worry about dressing up--its the most laid-back swanky place I've ever been. You can wear whatever you want. Ssshhh, Laurel. You're making me seem like a demanding date.

I just reactivated my account and immediately found 2 guys I like the look of a lot - one of whom I already know from last.fm funnily enough.

I'll try and stem my complete anxiety at not being in the right frame of mind to date anyone and just get on with my life.

loooool, i have a meeting with a contractor tomorrow at 1pm and one of them just sent me a message on okcupid saying that i showed up as one of her quiver matches and she thought she'd send a message in advance to avoid potential awkwardness!

Hahah oh christ, I would be mortified if a workmate showed up in my matches. Never thought about it.

when i put a profile up i came across a workmate after about 3 matches.

not cool.

i think she mightn't maintain her profile now tho. anyway i got the fuck out of dodge post haste.

it also sucks because she's like a 95% match with me and had flirted with me once at a bar after a conference. i'm trying to get out of it right now by going on at length about the most boring work topic i can possibly imagine.

Bless <3

i'm pretty sure this is the only conversation about a Return on Investment study that's currently happening on OKC

What if she's hot for budget analysis? OMG!

get a drink after the meeting imo

or just ask Shakey for some tips on this convo

!! Avoiding awkwardness would have been accomplished by immediately blocking you and never mentioning it! So maybe she's after you.

This is my worst online dating/hookup nightmare. I don't want anyone I know IRL seeing my profile EVER. Last time I had one I locked the friends I could locate before I put up a real picture.

was yr profile racy

Mine? It was on Adam 4 Adam so it was somewhat adult themed. But a non-hookup profile is no less super private for me.

I wouldnt mind from a details-revealed POV but then again I avoid a heck of a lot of the compromising q'ns on OKC (esp about drugs).

The actual information is NBD, it's just someone seeing me operating in a dating context. That's private.

vp, got yr message!

happy VD ilx singles. if anyone wants to come to this party tonight let me know. i made a bunch of cookies and they are really good.

On to Subway after, around 8, 8:30ish.

Is this the Subway Inn on 60th/Lex? I am taking myself to The Miners' Hymns at Film Forum at 6:15, no firm plans after aside from eating.

Morbs! Yes indeedy it is that Subway Inn! We'll be there after 1 or 2 rounds of luxury.

b_g, I wish you were coming with us but I hope your party is cat-tastic and full of delicious things.

i actually have a little okc thing going on tonight! may or may not work out, but it'll beat drinking a bottle of wine by myself while watching c-span2 on mute

Mrb, you should have seen miners hymns with me live at the winter garden. Then we could monopolize your evening.

Zs, kudos, tho drinking a bottle of wine by myself is one of my favorite activities.

Happy Valentine's day, past, present, and non okc users! I'm hoping to clean up on Valentine's from the under-12 set.

Messaging with 2 guys at present, 1 is older than me (omg wtf gasp!), that's just been light TV shw talk so far... the other is a guy I really like the look of but after several enthusiastic exchanges my last one was a reasonably long, detailled ramble about music interests as he expressed a love of music and he's not yet replied. Guys tend to try and play it cool tho, right? God I over worry about this rubbish.

the longer the message the longer it takes to respond ime

Yeaah, I'm hoping thats what it is, like he's taking time to craft up a reply. Ive been home sick today which hasnt helped, nothing to do but stare at the pc and fret.

Hahah I jinxed myself! He just replied.

had a sort of nice date that ended with the realization that yeah, nothing will ever happen, biked home and had a bit of an accident, blood all over the place an unexplainable bandages all over my face for the next 2 weeks

happy valentines day!

fuck this holiday

yikes dude :(

Oh crap Z! Are you ok? :/

Had the best time at the Carlyle/Subway. I highly recommend a date with Laurel and rayuela, with a special guest appearance by Dr. M. Except I drank too much (again). Two (actually four) martinis is more than I can handle. Do I owe anyone money or anything? We forgot to kvetch about okc.

"actually four"

heal up ZS

Glad u made it home ok! It took me a while this morning to feel human again. I didn't feel drunk until I got home, and then I felt REALLY DRUNK. I should not have had that beer but I thought there was no sense in wasting it!

I had a good time last night as well & was lovely to meet you all on the most romantic of all days.

Sorry about the abrupt departure last night, I wd have liked to stay at Subway about another hour with you all, but yeah holy hell the double martini.

Jealous of anti-VD fap. I had a strange date that I thought was going well but ended with a handshake (? is that normal? It was awkward as hell but she stuck her hand out so I took it and shook it). At the first place I went to I somehow lost my wallet when the bill arrived, and found it right after she paid. Of course I apologized prefusely and paid for all the drinks at the next place but she seemed really pissed. Then I rode off on my bike and fell on my face.

Mary, I think we owe you money! Or Bemelmans does, because I couldn't stop you from putting too much on the tab. Perhaps the waiter will remember you in future, is that your plan?

Haha, I don't remember much from the second martini on. I'm just glad I contributed at all to the bill.

laurel your timing was perfect b/c had we stayed out any later, i would have felt disastrously drunk in public, and not in the privacy of my apt.

vp, you also bought us a round at subway!

zs, sorry to hear about the terrible date & face injuries...

ZS, I have to say, I have shaken people's hands before upon meeting up on dates, and even on departing. Because unless you have achieved a specific bond, I'm not into hugging peeps and getting cheek-kissed or w/e by relative strangers just because we went to the same place for a drink. So I wouldn't take the hand-shaking as a bad thing NECESSARILY, it may just be meant to keep you at a distance until further developments develop.

hand-shaking is ok

I always end dates with a high-five