Placing an ad

I've been on hiatus from online dating...well, dating in general.  I went through my "find a boyfriend before it's cold" phase in October last year and ended up dating someone who ghosted conveniently a week before Valentine's Day.  I then found myself needing a distraction and experimented with OKCupid for the better part of February and March.

With summer here, I thought for sure I could snag a summer fling.  The one problem being that I'm not in the fling spirit.  I've had the fling, I've been the fling, I've dumped the fling.  That's a lot of "f" words for an initial posting.  I promise not to tone it down.

So, in an attempt to spice things up (and courtesy of the inspiration from okcenemies.com), I decided to fire up the old profile again.  This is legitimately Day One.  Or, Day One of Round 2 for you sticklers out there.

I am pleased to report that in the past hour I have already received 3 messages...ranging from a man in an unironic pimp hat to a kid (he's 24 for godsakes, I don't want to change diapers) swearing he's not a douchelord. 

I'm not as bitter as I sound...I have an equal opportunity dating policy.  If you make the effort, can manage a coherent message, and I don't get the feeling you're going to skin me, I'll go out with you.  My mom would not approve of this taking-candy-from-stranger's attitude, but hey, I never found a needle in my candy apple on Halloween.

Now, I know there are thousands upon thousands of blogs in the giant blogosphere with women chronicling their dating experiences.  From the mundane to the tragic to the hysterical.  I can't promise I'll have any great advice or special insight.  The only thing I can offer is a report of my meetings, messages, and transgressions.  I've been talking about documenting this for years, and you know what?  It's about time I actually did something about it.

So here we go...