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

double martini
these should not be allowed to exist

if i drink more than 2 regular martinis i feel like i'm on the edge of point of no return
like my friend janet says: martinis are like boobs; stick with two.

i guess the loophole in that aphorism is that they could be doubles...

At least I'm a generous drunk. Insolvency usually keeps me from drinking more than one at bemelmans, but I was seduced by the special occasion.

lol a former employer once told me "martinis are like boobs: one's not enough and three's too many"

to which I would say "balls" :D

It's not reeeeally a "double" but they give you a little flask with whatever was left in the shaker when yours was mixed. Very dangerous.

oh yeah, that's the proper quote - i am not so good at remembering quotes and jokes - that's why i need friends/internet! :)

All you really need to remember is the "martinis are like breasts" part. Someone else is sure to fill in the punchline for you.

Oh shit I just had the thought that I might have left my hand-cast silver art ring in the bathroom at hotel. Shit shit shit shit

that sucks -- but there's probably a higher chance of getting it back from the hotel bathroom than if you had left it in subway, no?

does anyone else do the thing on this where you talk/flirt with people but have no intention of anything more? i mean... or does everyone do this and just pass on the pain?

Hah. Hah. I was just talking to someone about that yesterday.

No.

i don't. but some people do, it seems.

it's not really intentional, sometimes i think i want to and then i don't. this is what happens to me constantly too. i don't let it go too far i guess, a few times i've spoken to people quite a lot over a few weeks and actually felt it was leading somewhere then they FLAKE, i assume the worst from now on.

in other dating nooze, met a girl last week from another site and we had a few beers, wasn't a majorly serious thing but i did quite like her and towards the end of the night she seemed to make it explicitly clear she liked me.

then when i went to kiss her at the end she kissed me on the lips coldly, and awkwardly, about three/four times. so awkward i actually laughed.

AND THEN, next day texted me to say "i had such a nice time, we should definitely do something again"

which i don't even believe, i hate this sort of "politeness".

she kissed me on the lips coldly

do you mean that her lips were cold, or that it was just really mechanical?

i am currently really stoked on this one girl on okc who is waaaaay out of my league, but somehow as i was trying to figure out how to write her a message without sounding like the lamest person in the universe i got an email saying that she "chose" me or whatever (rated 4 or 5 stars). so we've been talking. and it turns out that in addition to being really pretty and having big doe eyes that i want to drown in she's also a relatively prominent writer at...well, i won't say. but somehow she's done all of this at 26, already. but she keeps talking to me for some reason? i've casually mentioned meeting up a few times in the context of longer messages but she keeps ignoring the idea in her reply.

anyway, gaaaaaah, i don't even know her well but it's the first thing resembling gaaaaaah that i've felt in several years

xp
maybe she was uncomfortable w/kissing after a first date?

Zach why do you think she's out of your league???

all i've thought about the last two days (in the midst of going to work, going out for drinks with another okc person and slamming my face into a curb) is how i would feel if she'd agree to meet me out somewhere, doing anything. but obviously i have to play it cool so i go on like it's not a big deal.

sigh

how've you casually mentioned the meeting up? if she keeps ignoring that is a bit suspect but maybe it's not clear? i don't know

I think I'm deliberately keeping parts of my life disorganized so that I can have an excuse for not dating

i don't know, she spends her life flying around the country and interviewing politicians being on tv and being awesome. she's also extremely pretty, like headturning. she even has the goddamn cindy crawford mole thing going on. then she's like "so what do you do at 3PA?" and there is no way to answer without sounding extremely boring. so i try to limit the boringness to a sentence and then mention that i'm looking for more fulfilling work bla bla bla, then compliment her again on something.

she did say that something i said was "really sweet--thank you!" so that was a positive development.

JUST LET ME TAKE YOU OUT TO DO SOMETHING FOR CRISSAKE

how've you casually mentioned the meeting up?

when i asked her who she wrote for, i said that i understood if she didn't feel like sharing that information with a relative stranger, "although 1f you ever want to meet up we wouldn't be str4ngers anymore! Gotta toss that out there"

don't know why the hell i'm g00gleproofing that but whatever

you should go on a date with this woman

clearly

just ask directly hey let's hang out when are you free

yeah, i think next time we're messaging back and forth i will. last night we supposed to have a okc messaging sesh (we actually made plans to do so earlier in the day...kinda weird), but then at the last second i decided to go out on a shitty date instead. i totally deserved to drunkenly wipe out on my bike, the whole evening was a terrible decision.

And now you have an adventure story to regale on a date!

no one deserves a bike wipeout

i am deactivated

Deactivated here too. Bookmark removed from this thread, as of... now. Good luck one & all, see you on the other side!

woooo!

woo to the last two posts, and woooooo to the message i just received!

gaaaaah

Might not need OKCupid any longer here in the very near future...

Gosh, strange!!

whoa, did you meet someone nice?

Oh, it's been an insane week.

Zach, get on gchat and I'll tell you a story.

hm, I've been dating the same person for a while now but haven't deactivated my acct, just because, I don't know. Have thought abt it but don't know protocol I guess. Now I feel bad...

xpost i went on gchat, but you disappeared. i want to hear the story!

yeah i am sort of back on this shit...IRL person feels like they're slipping away a bit, though I have thought this before.

i am deactivated

― mookieproof, Thursday, February 16

!! This is good news I hope?

nope!

:(

I'd totally go on a date with you. Stupid ocean.

oh, i'm sorry. earlier i thought it was good news. can you just keep it activated and check it every once in a while to see if someone promising comes along?

u r too kind

the problem isn't with okc exactly, but more that i am basically unhappy all the time and don't want to do anything at all, let alone chat with/try to impress strangers : /

I totally understand how that feels :( *hugs*

IN other news: found an intriguing looking guy on okc who plays piano, seems well read and smart and is p good looking.. but then he says 2 of his fave authors are Eckhardt Tolle and *David Icke*.

Run a mile screaming?

tbh, and of course all i want is for you to be happy really and truly, i think that is wise. and not only because you don't want to fall into any unhealthy 'this person will save me from unhappiness' stuff or have the other person fall into 'i can save him from unhappiness' stuff. that is a twisted path.

but this also brings up the issue, which i think maybe has been discussed in this thread before, of being ready to date and how that doesn't necessarily mean you need to have all your shit together and be "healed" and whatevs. to me it means you're ready to welcome other people into your life (however messy it may be) as feeling, thinking individuals who you respect (and want to get in the pants of). yes i am an idealist.

xp

you never know trayce...

I dunno, a guy whos *fave* author is a madman who thinks lizard ppl run the world is a bit :/ to me.

I am so jilly jane judgemental sometimes, ha.

unless it's a joke anybody who thinks Icke is worth reading is a giant idiot tbh

i think being judgmental about this kind of thing is a-ok
unless it's a joke, but he's taking a big risk there if it is...