OkCupid. Shoot Your Arrows! Please Miss Agamemnon7*

Okay, I don't know how sad this is to you or not, but. I'm now officially on OkCupid, this free online dating site. A long time ago, when I was like, 21 or something, I had a blind date with someone I met online and the guy had no personality in real life. He couldn't laugh about anything, was not good-looking in person, and made me pay for the date. It was awful. One of the reasons I went on this date was to make an atheist boy I adored jealous (see THIS post for an update) and it was also the first and last time I ever had an online dating profile ... until three days ago.


I decided to try again. 












My mother texted me, months ago, with these choice words at a ridiculous hour on a chilly, wintery Sunday morning (btw, my phone is dead right now, to you, who may have texted and I never answered. I swear my love for you is unfaltering and I wouldn't ever ignore you, not in 1,000 years unless something like this had occurred):


Mom: Christi.
Mom: Christi. Ar e u awake?
Mom: Christi. I said HELLO.


Me: ma it's 3:33a – I'm slepeien


Mom: Christi. It's time for you to focus on a husband and babies. I want grandchildren.


Phone gets shut off.




While I'm not trying online dating to appease my mother or pacify her in some way, I did actually do a lot of thinking, and I have thought this before: that I'm quite busy and maybe this is just a good way to meet someone? I'm ready for a relationship, though I want to rush not, anything that comes my way. I'm going to give it a try and see what pops up. Who knows. Maybe I'll meet my future husband. ...Ooooor just a guy who calls himself Agamemnon7* and says the the SIX things he could never do without are his, "Brains, Eyes, Mouth, My Arms, Legs, Penis and Anus."


Sigh.


*name hidden to protect author


ps: i have no idea why there are all these gaps on the page.