A day-by-day account of a single girl's attempt to find a real social life in a virtual world.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Days 21, 22, and 23

Whoa. Sorry 'bout the time between posts. Holiday weekend and all. I've been haing fun, and I'm currently out of town with intermittent internet access, which hopefully excuses my blog-absence. I think you'll forgive me the lapse once I get to the good stuff.

Seems like the more things I do in real life, the less time and interest I have in virtual life. I'm exchanging daily emails with Bike Guy, but I find that I'm not logging into JDate. I've been spending time with friends indulging in outdoorsy interests in the good weather. I love summer! Summer makes me more inclined to find romance, but this is also the best time of year to fully immerse myself in the sporty hobbies I favor. Perhaps ironically, I'm more likely to meet people during the summer sport season, but I chose to start JDate right when I was about to start getting outside of my own accord. My free evenings and weekends are filling up with group sport activities, and I find I'm looking forward to these much more than lining up prospective dates. How can I make these good times last throughout the year, so that I don't swing the other way in the winter months, with no group sport activities and no dates?

So. About a month ago, I met someone through Craigslist. He advertised in the platonic section, looking for women to play on a co-ed league. I responded to his ad, because I wanted to try this particular club sport. He went out of his way to make me feel welcome on the team, arranging to meet me before the first game so he could introduce me to the other members of the team, and we just hit it off. Since he recruited me, I recruited him back for another league sport, and we found that we had tons of interests in common, so we've started spending more time together before and after our games. At first I thought I wasn't attracted to him, but now I have a little crush on him, so I'm really enjoying how our friendship is developing and I'm looking forward to the times we spend together. He is, of course, not Jewish. But he needs a nickname for this blog so I can continue to talk about him. Suggestions?

4 Comments:

Blogger Melinda said...

How about Sporty McGentile?

8:54 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is SO cool!!

--Emma--

PS. Does Jewish stuff matter?

10:29 PM

 
Blogger Dori said...

I like Melinda's. (SMG for short?)

Apparently the male version of "shiksa" is "shaygetz"--so another option might be "Sporty Shaygetz".

6:34 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ultimate guy?

I like Melinda's too.
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1:20 PM

 

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