Date: 2010-08-03, 11:07PM CDT
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In the near decade since I was first convinced to look for a girlfriend, I've probably written about thirty or forty online personal ads, including those I wrote for other people, and responded to a couple hundred. I've actually gone on only about twenty "internet dates" as a result of all those ads, mostly because my heart's not really in it. Girlfriends are pleasant; dating is tedious.
I mean, I guess if I didn't find the whole process dauntingly arduous, I would look for girls... at... bars? Or work? Or church? Or where ever it is people in relationships insist that people meet each other in real life. The reality, for what it's worth, is that a statistically significant portion of the people I know are in long-term relationships with girls I met on the internet and then introduced to them, so this nonsense about meeting women in real life is probably a myth.
But like I said, even meeting girls on the internet starts to seem like a lot of work when you realize that every evening spent across the table from a relative stranger talking about their job or their childhood is a day you're missing one of your friends getting drunk and crashing a motorbike into a Vietnamese restaurant.
So, eventually, you make a game out of it to keep your motivation up. You decide to post a new Craigslist ad every day for the next 100 days and see what comes of it.
Then you hope you don't get flagged for overposting. I would argue, by the way, that it's not overposting if every ad is different from the one before.
I suppose I'll put the project on hold in the event of a second date. They're rare, so I haven't really thought that far ahead.
Hi. I'm Dan. I'm probably free this Friday.
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