http://www.duidating.com Dating is Like a DUI Attorney Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:19:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So there I am, drunk and losing ground. Quickly. While making fun of a near-perfect (in both ways) stranger's chosen hobbies and best friend, I did a boisterous Irish jig all over common ettiquitte. My drunk self (that bitch!) still thought the whole thing was hilarious ... http://www.duidating.com/drunk-dating-continued/ I need to interject a contradictory and seemingly hypocritical rant. Dating rules: love 'em, hate 'em, and it is perpetually proven that once I think I have a handle on them they inevitably change or some new circumstance crops up and alters everything yet again. Rules about ... http://www.duidating.com/just-when-i-think-i-know-what-im-talking-about/ There is a mode that (some) women get into in preparation for a first a date, in which they flounce around their apartment in a bathrobe or towel vigorously lotioning, drying, curling, painting, spritzing and with or without the soundtrack of "Oh crap. Not that. Maybe this. Uh. Hmm. This ... http://www.duidating.com/drunk-dating-is-sometimes-the-best-you-can-do/ Bike messengers have always had a certain element of mystique that I am inherently drawn to. One deliciously cut courier delivers our paychecks every other Friday and we’ve had a mild flirtation for months. These men (yes, I know there are female bike messengers, but I’m not infatuated ... http://www.duidating.com/so-i-have-this-mild-obsession/ They are definitely recurrent themes. The Good Boy (Can you screw him? He might cry.) 
 The Huggable (You want to hug him, but do you WANT to screw him? Probably not.) 
 The Creeper (Hits on waitress when you’re in the bathroom.) 
 The Competitor (The guy who can’t shut up and who can’t be wrong. ... http://www.duidating.com/recurrent-themes-part-ii/ ...are these truly recurrent themes? Or just a good time? No matter- they're fun. -The Anti-Indie (the poor thing tries and tries but to no avail. just don't tell him that. he might cry.) 
-The Pseudo-Indie (almost there! but don’t introduce him to your real indie friends. they will make him ... http://www.duidating.com/how-i-love-to-generalize/ I have undoubtedly never been a “good girl.” This does not automatically mean that I never wanted to be one or was never jealous, as a teenager, of the girls who oozed wholesome naïveté and as such were instantaneously loved by teachers and friends’ parents. But I got ... http://www.duidating.com/i-am-not-a-good-girl/ We are incessantly bombarded by the unbreakable dichotomy of whether or not we are "good girls" or "bad girls". We all know exactly who we think are the good and bad girls, but are rarely capable of explaining why. It would likely be an unfortunate revelation of our ... http://www.duidating.com/am-i-still-a-good-girl/ The showdown happened, as Trish alluded, at the salon. The funny thing is that I had already heard of Trish. The Attorney (whose name is Thad, by the way – and no, names have not been changed to protect the culpable) had been referring to her for a ... http://www.duidating.com/the-break-up-and-the-showdown/ Let me start by saying that there are 1,143,358 attorneys in the US, and 147,096 active attorneys in New York state alone. They are multiplying like the rabbits in my parents' backyard. They make a shitload of money (yea, through a hyper-costly certification process followed by ten years ... http://www.duidating.com/dating-the-attorneys-there-are-after-all-more-than-a-million-of-them/