Moving On To New Prospects

In the attempts to keep my hopes up that there is someone that I will have a second date with, I have been very active on Match this weekend. That and my internet is working, allowing me to get online.

I wrote back to "Suburban guy" but I haven't heard anything since last Wednesday. He wrote back pretty quickly previously, but maybe that line where I said that I don't trust anyone who doesn't like football was a bit too much for him to handle. That's ok though. He's short and lives far away.

But I have gotten some responses this weekend. An email from the "British guy" I winked at last weekend, winks from "San Diego guy" and "Faux-hawk guy", and an instant message from "Picky guy" this evening that led to a 2 hour conversation over IM. "Picky guy" lives a bit far away and initially I was skeptical since he didn't have a picture on Match. I started talking to him on AIM and he sent over a picture. Very good looking - he looked a little bit like Leonardo DiCaprio in the one picture. I asked him why he wouldn't put a picture up, especially since he's attractive. His response was that he had a picture up in the past and got a lot of interest from people who weren't interested in him for the right reasons. He actually dated a girl for 2 years that he met on Match so that's a positive sign that he's looking for a relationship and not a quick hook up.

"Picky guy's" profile has a lot of details about what he's looking for in his profile and if I had been doing a search, I wouldn't have winked since he has no picture and all these requirements. For instance, he wants someone with their own place, minimal debt, neat freak, and his ideal match is someone who is a successful designer. I have a roommate, some credit card debt that I will probably be paying off for a long time, I can be lazy and not clean for days, and I'm in marketing. He also loves living way out in the suburbs (I don't even really consider it suburbs since he's almost all the way out in Natrona Heights, which is a very long drive) and doesn't like the city. I plan on being in the city until I have kids and I want to raise them somewhere where they have a big yard to play in and good schools. "Picky guy" also went to WVU and although my undergrad is CMU, my MBA and a bunch of my friends went to Pitt, so I follow the Pitt sports hardcore. So we are college sports rivals.

I definitely think it was cool that he contacted me and we had a good 2 hour conversation. It would be nice to meet someone where there is a possibility of dating. And he's 6'5", which is much better than the hordes of 5'7" or 5'8" tall guys on the online dating scene. The only downside will be if I end up liking him and it's not reciprocated. I have zero ability to protect my feelings when I like someone and I'm really tired of getting my hopes up and then getting hurt. It's starting to get annoying. We'll have to see what happens - I'm going to try to not get my hopes up too much.