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

Everybody needs a crush that lives in Texas!

Don't doooooooooo it!!!

had a 'date' last night. she was nice? and tall, because those are the women who message me, lol. it was fine (i was in a good mood!) but there was no, uh, spark i guess.

also she doesn't drink and apologized once for saying 'hell', so perhaps we are poorly matched.

i worry that i have lost the capacity for sparks tho

You haven't! I felt a nasty old newspaper left out in the rain, and now I am all sparkles. The solution is to get yourself an utterly impossible crush in Texas!

how about croyden

That would probably work too. Is it located on a hellmouth, like East Texas?

my attempt to cheer myself up failed due to getting a rejection call for a job i interviewed for. boo-urns. however i made some ok ratatouille.

croydon making a strong showing for capital crush city

Croydon, birthplace of Dubstep - and crushes.

Spark is so confusing because it is not something that can be predicted nor controlled for, and yet without it these things don't work.

I'm sure there's got to be something one can do to work on one's sparkiness - or even receptivity - though. But without the right reactive partner it isn't going to happen. Like safety matches.

See if listening to SParks helps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTe5aClA3QE

i'm going to cook myself a nice dinner and watch pretty little liars

i <3 this show

Got a weird wave of messages from folks on OKC. Makes me wonder if they stuck my profile up somewhere it was more visible or something. Or maybe it's just because I was born in Croydon.

About my current situation, all I'm saying is, everything I said? I take it back. It turns out I don't even know what getting to know someone looks like. Or is. But I take it back. Forward to something interesting, with any luck.

OKC is really effective at making me feel like I'm probably going to die alone. Time to deactivate again, I suppose.

Waiting for her to respond to request for followup date!!!

http://www.nail-biting.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/nail-biting-disease.jpg

Unexpected but very quietly satisfying daet last night. Was supposed to be a quick pint, ended up crashing the end of a literary reading and going out to dinner with academics & translators & SMRT people who were all so nice (and smrt). I don't know what it was but I found a way into the right mental space with enjoyable results. Would smooch.

Umm, again.

Ha, was about to check that detail

plz draw us map to this mental space + congrats!

OKC is really effective at making me feel like I'm probably going to die alone.

Exactly this. And here we go with another late Saturday night in this vein!

She hasn't responded to my second date followup, so ditto, we can all die alone, together.

Not I, said the cat. I have date #4 tonight.

Hope it went well.

I can't even get replies from the people whose profiles say "Replies often" except for a woman who happens to live in my building who's not my type. I think I'll move on to something else.

made a date for next tuesday. don't know why, I should not be doing this right now.

Still seeing the guy I met from here recently :) Pretty pleased with how its turned out, we're a good match.

See I can never quite tell if ppl from this thread disappear because they've met someone, or disappear because OKC has driven them to such depths of despair they want nothing more to do with dating, ever.

So I'm glad there's some of the former.

I suppose I should throw myself back into it when I get back from Orkney but I just don't want to. And this is the problem with Having A Crush, it kind of obliterates the desire to get out and meet anyone else, when really, meeting other people who are More Appropriate is exactly what I should be doing.

Thank you for the kind wishes, it went excellently well.

Not that I post here often enough to noticeably disappear, but considering that the last girl I made plans with cancelled on me, rescheduled, then cancelled a couple hours before we were supposed to meet up because she got asked out by someone else she had hit it off with, I'm closer to the latter, WCC. Anyway, I'm moving soon, and it's nice to have something else to focus on other than dating. Glad to hear things are working out for some people here though.

Flakey people suck. I'm sorry to hear that, Vinnie.

Just continually get the sense that people who are good at OKC are those people who are good at ~dating in IRL~ and I just don't have those kinds of skills or ability to roll with the flakiness.

If my experience is anything to go by, there is a muuuuch higher incidence of flakiness among OKC users these days than than there used to be. I have no idea what accounts for that, but it's supremely annoying. And I say that as someone who's a little flaky but at least makes some effort not to be.

Also, in reference to the previously-mentioned thing where a lot of women prefer not to date short(er) men, I just got a first message from someone who said she usually prefers taller men but that the humor in my profile makes up for that? Which seems somewhat equivalent to "too bad about your tiny boobs, but at least you have a good personality!"

so spunky

I prefer to treat those sort of comments as a gift of rare insight into how it feels to be on the receiving end of the sort of "compliments" that women receive on probably a daily basis.

^^^^^^^^^^^ ding ding ding

(This would probably the the wrong place to admit that I'm starting to develop a weird thing for men who are slightly shorter than me. I feel like I could dominate them or something. It would be fun. (It's similar to the thing for super-skinny, frail looking boys.) Also, Thom Yorke.)

I've noticed a certain type of person ("young NPR" people I guess?), both men and women, mentioning the Oxford comma a lot, in such a way that it seems like there was some big cultural reference to it that I missed. Did Demetri Martin mention it in a routine, or was it in a Mumford and Sons song or something?

Wasn't it Vampire Weekend?

(Also, Mansard Roofs.)

Ha, holy shit, I assumed you were joking about Vampire Weekend, but nope, there it is.

People who aren't down with the Oxford/serial comma are disgusting savages.

The pervasiveness of that as some weirdly hip new grammatical trend makes me roll my eyes barf and cry.

Flakiness is a big bummer and I get p mad at people who treat dates as disposable and break them on the day. Has happened to me with OKC twice, and both times I was actually quite mad and not that nice about it, which doubtless did not endear me to the dates in question but I hardly cared at that point.

FWIW, I had to cancel a second date the day of/the day before because I was suddenly floored by the flu. But I was emphatic about actually wanting a second date and rescheduled as soon as I was back on my feet. I've never cancelled a first date, though, and I'm pretty upfront about it if I don't see a second date in the cards.

Yeah, in my case, this was going to be the first date, and cancelling kind of puts a killer on any potential momentum there. Even before the second cancellation, I was already way less excited. I'm definitely more sympathetic to cancelling if the person tries to reschedule quickly though.

So just when I was whining about not getting replies the person I was hoping would write did. This is a magical thread.

Lesson learned: Whine more. Maybe something good will happen while you're distracted by your own suffering.

Working for me at the moment, anyway. Thanks, okc!

accidental OKC Texan arriving for visit tomorrow. 0_0

go texas!

coming up on four months w/the okc girl i talked about upthread. after some minor early bumps it turned into a really great relationship! i even took her home for labor day and she and my mom really dug each other. totally happy.

...and now i have to move to new york for work in a week

IDK about the music teacher guy. I had seen him 4x and we had a pregnancy scare kind of, I'm worried it scared him off. I have no idea how to date at all. I'll admit. We never really communicate in between dates. I may be playing it too cool. Or maybe not.

I really like this guy but I don't want to scare him off by asking about how much of a thing we are. I don't know if I want to know how much of a thing we are. I would like it to be an amount greater than zero, though. He lives an hour away in another town and only comes up on the weekend. He didn't last weekend and idk if he was too busy or just not interested. I really like this guy and if we never date again I'll feel pretty sad.

I'm just feeling lonely in general lately and this is an extra neurotic wrinkle of that.