watching expired appliances align

question:

does your nerve ad include a picture of you with or without your beard?

beard, of course.
i'm not going to lie to the people.

so is this the beginning of balgavy.com shift memos?

i only vaguely know what you're talking about.
i'm sort of out of it today, in case anyone noticed.

let me chime in and say that i'm thoroughly enjoying the play-by-play of marc's afternoon. if only it had an ending that satisfied the main character.

If it makes you feel better, the last time I tried to return to online dating I didn't get any responses either. I think online dating is "over." I looked around a little and it's the same guys as were on there three years ago! Either they're getting no results or they're getting consistent results that they like, i.e., casual sex or emotional warfare or something. I hate them all now. I guess my failure also has to do with my antagonistic attitude. All I can think of to go in my profile is "I hate you I hate you I hate you." I can't say that "dating offensive" sounds all that positive either, if you take offensive to be the adverb rather than the noun(!) Have you seen that a new magazine for women who love TV is launching? Perhaps an ad in there!

Oh yeah and also, you'd think it would be polite and good practice for people to write back even if just politely to decline, or to give you a chance, but in my experience being on both ends of that: giving a chance or being given a chance, it never works out to be a polite or good thing. On Nerve perhaps even more than in real life, first impressions are all that count, and if someone is "not feeling it" it doesn't seem to change no matter what. Better to be dissed now by silence than later after you have more invested in it. One of my many problems was that I'd already have invested in the person by the time I worked up the nerve to write to him, so the disses felt worse than they needed to.

-a taste of my own medicine-

sometime between bedtime and wakingup time, my nerve.com profile received a "wink," but not a full on message. it is now up to me to write to this person. i have not written to her yet. perhaps i will do so this evening when i get home. i hope she isn't feeling rejected that i haven't written to her during the past 18 hours. she did only "wink" at me, though.

kathy - all good thoughts. luckily, i'm such a cold-hearted bastard that i don't get invested in anyone or any relationship until about 6 months or three years in.

what the hell is a wink?

That's something unmarried people do, Dan. No but really it's formerly known as a "collect call" and is for people who for whatever reason don't want to spend a credit (dollar) to make initial contact with someone. People should also know that credits are only sold in packs of 25. I guess that should give us a clue as to how many people we're supposed to contact before we get lucky or whatever.

sadly, my days of free credits have come to an end. and my new pictures aren't very good, so i don't expect to see my profile in the back of various local new york magazines.

i have not written back to the person who winked at me. last night i got caught up in downloading the current rosters for mvp baseball for playstation2.