The Blog Rationale

I feel I must explain myself as to why I have taken up blogging. I will admit I was a bit inspired by the new movie Julie/Julia.

First to start off with a little bit about myself, I'm 22 a recent college grad and currently waitressing, exciting right?! I'm bored. Very very bored.

Many of my friends are about to go back to school and embrace the college lifestyle I left behind 3 short months ago. For me, it is necessary that I still bring some humor to the table post grad, otherwise I may as well start my coffee mug collection and get a cat now. My encounters will no longer involve campus gossip, fraternity boys, or the results of one to many cocktails at the local watering hole (who am I kidding?- there will probably still be a few of those). So, what can I do to keep myself entertained? Online dating? Why not!

I have always thought of online dating as a place for over forties, divorcees', perves (i.e. craigslist), homely people, and those who lack social skills. So here I am, online dating to pass judgement on what may be the next it thing for my generation to partake in.

The idea crossed my mind after a friend told me that HE was on a dating website. My initial thoughts were that this is freaking hilarious!!! My friend Anthony belongs with the Gotti's very very very Italian, throw him on the Jersey shore and he'd fit right in (minus the tanning- he's too Chicago for that). My immediate reaction to this is, I have to make an online profile and see what he would tell me, the perfect "italian woman of his dreams", that we had discussed one too many times. KissMeMaria was born, I filled out her personality profile to fit Anthony's likings and found a google image of an italian girl showing too much cleavage and making a kissy face at the camera, PERFECT!

So, under my pseudo-identity of KissMeMaria I start browsing the site, Who is on here? What does this compatibilty thing mean? Who is that hunk with his shirt off? Within my 5 minutes of browsing, my inbox was loading up with emails. Generally normal ones I'm happy to report. How are you? What's going on? You are beautiful. Someone even sent Maria a Rose (whatever that means). Even though Maria was recieving all the compliments I couldn't help feeling flattered as well, I had punked all these guys, I had quite possibly created the woman of their dreams. I felt like I was in control, all from the safety of my bed, on my laptop, and in my pajamas! What could be better?

So the search continued to find Anthony, but no such luck. Instead, I stumbled upon Bowling Dave, a guy from campus who took bowling class with a couple of my sorority sisters, hence the name. He is also friends with my sorta-ex, so who better to try Maria out on then him. I sent him a message, and he TOTALLY bought it! Which he should considering that I am not me, I am Maria. I don't know how people lead double lives, this whole stunt was hard for me to keep up, however I did have a blast throwing in as many Itailian references into the messages as possible. I drew the line at being a decendent of Al Capone, some people frown upon that I guess. We sent each other a couple messages back and forth answering the general movies, books, bars, and hobbies questions. I was itching with laughter, but also feeling a little bit guility....

So with the guilt, I signed off for the night and waited until the next day to respond. By the next day however karma had caught up with me, upon signing in the next morning I discovered my account no longer existed and Maria was deleted from the site! I figured this was a sign that said Do Not Continue Nicole, you are playing with fire!! Plus, I couldn't even begin to remember all the things about Maria, I couldn't recreate her!! Big bummer considering I never found Anthony the reason for this whole escapade.

So there we have it, my only experience of online dating to date. Funny and interesting if I do say so myself! A bit conniving, yes, but that is why I feel I owe it to all those online daters out there, and myself to give it a shot and prove my judgements wrong, or at least have a few laughs!

Step One is to create a profile. More updates to follow.