It has been a long while since I've been in a mutual, committed, exclusive, serious, long-term relationship. During the course of my single-dom, I have engaged in various and sundry permutations of "dating," from brief encounters, to longer-term situations, from "this has no future, but it's okay for now" to "I could imagine the possibility of a future here." I've gone from strategic and purposeful alone time to strategic, purposeful, and plentiful dating.
As of this moment, I'm currently open to meeting someone, but am not going out of my way to be proactive about dating. No more internet dating, no participating in dating columns. I did promise one friend that I'd be her wingwoman at a Jewish singles event if necessary -- what are friends for? But generally, it's summer, and I'd rather spend my free time with my friends and family (whom I don't get to see enough as it is) going to free, outdoor events and enjoying everything NYC summer has to offer. This weekend it was an active weekend, complete with a long, leisurely rollerblade down the West side with my friend Eric, and a 60 mile bike ride to Oyster Bay with the girls.
Even though I'm not really looking, I have an odd feeling that, soon enough, I'll end up dating someone with a blog. This could be good or bad. Who knows? We'll see what the future brings. . .
I got a crush on a blogger...and the only hint I will give you is that you have a link to their blog on your site and so do I. (swoon!)
Posted by: Niche | June 22, 2004 at 02:09 PM
Crushes on bloggers, pff.
(Hypocrisy: I have crushes on two bloggers, and I express the crushes on my site using XFN.)
Posted by: Richard | June 22, 2004 at 05:02 PM
N -- I think I might know who you mean :)
Richard -- how does that work? Are you the only one who can see the tags?
Posted by: Laren | June 23, 2004 at 12:03 AM
Nope, if you view source, you can see the relationships I have set for people. Also, you can go to a site like Rubhub.com, type in a URL, and have it show the relationships (to and from) a site. XFN is in the early stages, but it's a way to describe in existing HTML how you are related to someone, and not just by family ties.
Posted by: Richard | June 23, 2004 at 12:18 AM
Here's a scary site (from lindsayism.com) of a girl who is has no boyfriend and is counting down to her December 2004 engagement...
http://www.marryblaire.com/
Posted by: erika | June 23, 2004 at 01:01 PM
Wow. That is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen.
Posted by: Laren | June 23, 2004 at 03:23 PM
Not as terrifying as the amount of women (and, I'm sure, a few men) with 'boyfriend application' pages.
Posted by: Richard | June 23, 2004 at 07:02 PM
Quite a ride!
Posted by: Euan | June 23, 2004 at 07:35 PM
That is some site that lady has got, good luck to her!
Are you tempted to follow suit Laren? lol
Posted by: Euan | June 24, 2004 at 06:59 AM
No way in hell.
Posted by: Laren | June 24, 2004 at 10:19 AM
hee hee
it is a bit on the extreme side!
Posted by: Euan | June 24, 2004 at 11:36 AM