DATING THROUGH COMMENTS

I was just reading some of my friends comments on myspace and on one of my friends, a guy was setting up a date with her through her comments section. Isn't that weird? It went back and forth like 4 or 5 times. Why didn't he just email her or text message or CALL?? Now everyone can read that dorky awkwardness. I feel bad for him but I also want to punch him in the nuts.

WE JUST CAN'T "LOVE" OUR PETS

I was reading UsWeekly on the train today and there was this lame article about Paula Abdul and her new boyfriend and there was a line in there about how her dogs have accepted him, inferring that if her dogs like him, he's a decent guy and Paula should drug and marry him ASAP (and televise it, of course). I know that I've seen this before about other people and I'd like to just clarify this way of thinking. I have a dog, so I think I am speaking from a pretty good place when I say that yes, using your dog can be a test in dating, however, it's not to see if the dog will get along with the man, it's to see how the man gets along with your dog! I don't buy into this whole "dogs are prescient" bullshit, I know tons of dogs that if a psycho came into your house and brought it a steak, it'd lick his hand and go to town on the steak. I have to yet to see a dog ignore a steak or even a squeaky toy to attack someone robbing you, let alone start barking out messages that the guy you're currently sleeping with is a "bad guy". Can we just let dogs be dogs instead of using them as another lame and pathetic dating ritual?

CONCLUSION TO DATING DILEMMA

Update:

We broke up. We talked and it turned out that he wanted kids and since I didn't want them he wanted to continue to look for someone to be an incubator which is fine and good. I think I'm going to take a break from dating right now though, I'm so tired of it, and I'm having some personal issues and I just can't deal with having to be nice and polite and interested in some guy that will turn out to have a roommate/live in NJ/be a momma's boy/vegetarian/criminal and/or overall douchenozzle. I think I am burned out from dating so I need to re-think my life and recharge myself. And its not like I'm gonna miss any sex, in the past 3 months, I've had it once. ONCE. With a boyfriend (he travelled a lot and we lived too far apart to make it easy for either of us to stay over). UGH. Fucking kill me now.

DATING DILEMMA

You know I think people are on this planet for the sole reason to disappoint others. I know that sounds really cynical and I will be the first to say I have a jaded view on things, but really. Almost every time I think someone will fail me, they do. And sometimes spectacularly. But lets take for instance this most recent disappointment. I started seeing this guy a few weeks ago that I met through friends and he seemed great, in fact good enough to become my main source of dates. Nice guy, good sense of humor, good looking, smart, good job, likes dogs, seemed to like me(!). And so it goes, we go out a bunch of times and its all good. At some point we talk about match.com and he says he used to have a profile on match and blah blah, whatever and then one day he emails my profile from his and when I went to email it back, his profile was down and he told me that he doesn't use it anymore. So a few more weeks go by and today what do I see during my routine cyber-stalking of everyone I ever came into contact with in my life, but his profile. On match. Active within 24 hours. UGH. So what am I to think of all this? He starts dating me, profile down. He gets to know me, profile up. I don't see any other conclusion than the obvious. So what do I do? Obviously he's dropped a few pegs on my list, but to be quite honest, the list isn't very competitive. I'm torn between jokingly dropping the fact that I know its up, which would potentially make me sound insecure and needy (and duh, a stalker!) or not saying anything at all and pretending I don't know, and hope that he doesn't meet anyone less annoying than me. What do you think? Any other conclusions I can come to? I toyed with the idea of putting up a fake profile to see if he's really looking but it just seems like too much work for someone I just started dating 2 months ago. Did I ever mention that I am lazy? I'm lazy.