North Dakota: The Date
James, who I mentioned briefly in my last post, was my good-natured North Dakota date. Since it was a rush job coupled with absolute blind-date madness, we agreed to meet at a local bar and just drink water. Forty minutes after our phone call, we were sitting across an out-of-service poker table, red velvet walls […]
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How to Get a Date in Just Four Hours
A smoother than a slip-n-slide road trip would be dull. Thank goodness sometimes Megan and I get lost and drive twenty miles in the wrong direction despite GPS, smartphones and even ye olde fashioned map (at which point we know we’ll be drinking a milkshake and reading from Garrison Keillor’s Poems for Tough Times later […]
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Nerves and Dinos
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep on saying it until y’all believe me: dinosaurs make great first date fodder! In South Dakota, I went on my second first date with a Ben and second first date within the paradigm of dinos. Lots of twos on this first date. A mild moment of anxiety whiplashed […]
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Still Life
In tackling fifty first dates, I’ve had to face a fear I think most singletons fret about (at least a little bit): rejection. Yeah yeah, I know very little is at stake on first dates and I’ve got nothing to lose by going on one (plus, I’ve basically signed onto it for the next few […]
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Behind the Scenes of A Professional Dater’s Decision Making
Ahhh, OkCupid. It had been a hot minute since I tap-danced with dating due to ever-increasing rivulets of work, life and running (yay running!). Yesterday, I put my dancing shoes on and started warming up. Though my interaction with online dating has been scarce in the past few days, a few messages awaited attention, and […]
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Wyoming!
Dating isn’t always convenient to one’s schedule. In fact, I’m not convinced it should be — if you really think someone is the cat’s meow, you’ll go out of your way to give them your time. When Megan and I decided we would stop in Yellowstone to let out her inner girl scout, I knew […]
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Idaho
One of the most frequently asked questions about 50/50 has been, “Well, what if a guy likes Megan more than you?” All joking of tag-teaming aside, Meg and I knew this was a likely scenario. It was never a matter of if but rather, of when. Answer: Idaho. While most boys have been intimidated by […]
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Discussions
In the car yesterday, Megan and I were discussing my date with Everette. She wanted to hear my story of being in London and finding out the guy I was there with had been (and technically still was) married. And in her true Megan way, she wanted me to look at it from a less-cheery […]
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Washington – Date Two
Fine, I admit it. I have a hard time making decisions between two exceptional choices. So with only one day in Seattle and two really nice potential dates from How About We, I couldn’t play “eenie-meenie-miney-moe” like I did when I was a child — I went out with both! This is the story of […]
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Oregon Date
Here’s a new way to meet someone: have a friend who is on the same dating site as you recommend a guy she’s already been out with and connect via said dating site. That’s exactly how I met Jon, who lives in Portland, Oregon. Our profiles said we were a 95% match, but percentages aside, […]
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