Reflections on M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
Thanks to Mr. Mississippi, I can now confidently say that I have both been on bad first dates myself, and witnessed a bad first date from start to finish. Watching Megs experience a date that evolved from reasonably okay to ginormous freaking trainwreck that might have also plowed into a few donkeys being gnawed on by Sasquatch […]
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Does Being Content Lead to Being Solo?
It never fails: when I should be doing work, or writing about something like the follow up to a bad first date I witnessed in Mississippi, I am instead overcome with thoughts spurred by yesterday’s series of conversations. Amid sunshine and starshine, we were talking about relationships, both where we’d been in the past dating […]
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M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
It is literally impossible for me to think of the word Mississippi and not spell it out in my inner monologue. This is kind of a bad thing as it means whenever someone mentions the state I tune out for at least two and a half seconds while I spell the word loudly and occasionally […]
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I’m Calling Some Shenanigans
Every year, my friend Liz used to write reflections about Valentine’s Day. Sometimes she was single, sometimes she was taken. This year, for the first time, she’s engaged for the holiday, and this time next year she’ll be married. She was in town for the week of V-Day, and for the first time since she’d […]
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‘Bama (the Al Kind, Not the O Kind)
Not sure if anyone else is keeping count, but Megs and I occasionally take a mental tally of how many great, good, indifferent, bad, and atrocious dates I go on. With drive times getting longer (how did the west get so big and east get to be so small? Weird proportions, former leaders of America. […]
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Last Night an OkCupid Engineer Saved My Project
Holy. Smokes. Megs and I were prepared for one heck of a lot of trouble on the road. Our emergency kit was more like a storage locker, stocked with everything a Girl Scout, an Eagle Scout, and an overprotective father plus two nurturing mothers might consider packing. From emergency reading (a romance novel…hot!) to flares […]
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Andrew Jackson’s Home
In honor of the great P-Day, some notes from Andrew Jackson’s home in Nashville, Tennessee. Megs and I had a few hours to explore Nashville and in true nerdtastic fashion, we decided to get our history on at The Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson’s abode. Admittedly, what I know of Andrew Jackson comes from sociology classes, […]
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V-Day
Go love. Ignore me today, kittens. Stand up, jump around, write a post-it note to your coworkers and make someone’s day. I dare you.
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National Food Truck Date Day – Tomorrow!
The following is a repost from Jeanna (one of my dating blog cohorts). She has deemed tomorrow National Food Truck Date Day. Find out why, and how you can participate, below. Also, she and I will be hosting (along with Lyft, Mensch of the Month, Joey the Cat Skeeball and Crushhub) NFTDD in San Francisco […]
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The OkCupid Rebound Rumormill
I’ve heard it on good authority (aka, other daters) that OkCupid and Plenty of Fish are known for harboring a deep, dark secret: they’re a hotbed of guys and gals on the rebound. The Rebound is actually not a bad romcom movie title, but a state of “going from one relationship to the next right […]
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