The Need for Speed

As usual, I've been behind on my blogging duties. I've been debating about just ending this blog completely, but then exciting enough things tend to happen that make it worthwhile to hang onto this guy for a little bit longer.

So what "exciting" happened recently? No, I didn't get laid... but I did manage to surpass my goal of going on 10 dates, each with a different person.

Yes, you read correctly. In fact, I went on 26 dates all in one night to be in fact!

That's right, I own a time machine.

NO! I went to a speed dating event.

Actually, I found out about it last minute through my brother Ira and he pulled some strings to get me into the event.

It was held in a giant hall rented by the organizers. There were 26 women and about 20 guys (a few times, a female would be left alone at the table).

We were all given numbers and cards. We then sat at a table and had 3 minutes to chat before moving on. at my discretion, I would put down the numbers of women I liked on the card. At the end of the night, the organizers took the cards. Eventually, they go through each card and single out the matches. If you get a match, you'll receive the other person's e-mail address and can set up a real date whenever.

Out of the 26 women I met, I can safely put them into 4 categories:
1. People I was I thought were cute/interested in
2. People who totally had no interest in m/wanting to be there but were dragged by friends
3. People I just wasn't attracted to at all
4. People I know from before hand (but none I knew well, all acquaintances)

I'd say they were almost all equal amounts. I ended up putting down about 6 or 7 numbers but will be surprised if I get more than 1 or 2 matches.

the tricky thing was knowing when to write down the number, if interested. What i ended up doing which may have looked bad was this:

Say, I was at table #22 and I liked girl #22, I would want to write #22 on my card but not in front of her. So, at the end of the 3 minutes, I would get up say good bye and go sit at the next table, which in this example, is table # 23.

At table #23, instead of glancing back to the previous table to see what number it was, I would look at the current number (here #23) and minus 1 (hence #22)., and mark it down.

I realized later on that this could mislead the person I'm with into thinking that immediately before even saying hi or introducing myself, that I wrote down their number right away.

As for the people themselves, there were a bunch of teachers, doctors (or med students) a couple of psychologists, a few people in marketing/fashion/design and a couple of individuals in different jobs (cosmetician, watch store owner).

I got along very well with some but it went by all too fast and will only know which were interested when I found out who I got matched with.

I won't get the results until probably later this weekend. However, there was one girl there whom I had met once at a party two years ago. Since then I saw her a couple of times when I worked at Old Navy last year.

The last time I spoke to her she had come to Old Navy while i was working the fitting rooms and had asked me to come to her birthday party (that being the 2nd or 3rd time i"d ever met her). Being who I am, I convinced myself with made up reasons why I shouldn't/couldn't go.

She seemed happy to see me last night though and I ended up talking her last before the evening ended.

When I got home, she left me a message on facebook (we were already "friends") saying "Thanks for the date!" so I casually wrote back "You're welcome. Would you like to go on a real one?".

To this she first said "sure could be fun" and then a few hours later wrote back again feeling that she may not have come across interested and changed her answer to "YEAH! I'd love to!"

So that's positive I guess. I got her number and I'm to call her this weekend to make plans

Either way I think it's cool I got a date before the results of the event even came out.

The only freaky thing about this whole thing is that not only do I have competition, I'm also competing again my brother! I told him we need to compare notes before we start calling for dates. I definitely don't want to date a girl my brother is after.

Elwood's first druken post

So yeah, I admit it I"m drunk.
I don't know why, but even though I have to get up at 9am tomorrow, I decided to go out with Sheira and some other people I know, to get drunk and hit up a club. As a rule, I hate clubs but tonight I decided to get out of my slump, go get drunk and party. By slump, I mean by the fact that I've been thinking of Wendy a lot lately. To make things worse (or better?) I realized, that although she's been giving me a lot of attention on facebook lately, it's not due to the fact that she may still have feelings for me, but that she's just addicted to Facebook. I realized she likes to write comments to everyone she knows and sends them mesages, etc. It's not just me.

So, tonight I got drunk went to two clubsan dwas kind of hoping i"d hook up. It didn't happen but what did happen was a pretty cute girl was dancing alone and i did this really sleazy move by first touching her hip and then even grabbing her hand. She kind of smiled and puled her hand back to say she wasn;t interested. On one hand I'm disgusted with myself to have gone down to that level (I hate seeing sleazy guys try to pick up chicks at club/bars) but on the other hand, at least I tried. Notrmally I wouldnt do anything, but tonight I stepped up and tried soemthign ballsy.

Well I better get to sleep or I'll be super exhausted tomorrow.

Goodnight the internet!

Getting worse

I realize I've been hitting a downward spiral as of late. I'm constantly checking online and hoping to meet someone. i"m on dating sites, craigslist, etc. I'm sending out tons of e-mails and messages. All usually get deleted or ignored.

It's funny because it feels like I've forgotten how to meet people in real life.

Actually, thats not entitrely true. I've met a lot of new people this summer and have definitey expanded my social circle. The only downside is that I tend to emit a "Let's be friends" radiation. I don' t know if it's something I do, or how I act or look but that's usually the case.

For example, I met a Sheira at the park yesterday with 2 other girls. they were all in bikinis and looking hot. They didn't seem to care and then they went into detailed discussions about other guys and how they want to go for them.

Now I don't expect any of them to start admitting their dying love to me, but I also don't like to be treated as "one of the girls". I wasn't wearing a bikini...

Well, summer is almost over and I didn't get evena single kiss out of the few people I went on dates left. However, I said it's almost over.

Lets see what happens next.

All Day Long I Dream About Sex

This is horrible. It's been getting really bad. I'm just jonzing out!
Is this normal? I guess it makes sense at age 27. Man I feel sorry for people who remain virgins until their 40's (or dead!).

My thoughts have been completely insane lately. I look at women on the street, bus, park, etc. and I'm no longer being bashful inside. Instead, the first thought in my mind is "What an ass!". This totally isn't who I am, and it scares me. It scares me because I think I'm becoming like every other guy out there.

I realized that I keep joking with RM2 about having sex. What's worse is I even started talking to Wendy on Facebook again and I admitted how I"d have sex with Wendy if it were to come to that.

What's happening to me?!

(P.S. I had originally accidently posted this on my old public blog that my Uncle still reads... Even though I deleted it, I hope he doesn't e-mail me asking me about this!)