Yippity Do Dah

I'm a free trial freak. Especially for online dating sites. Match.com 10 day free trial? I'm there. Earlier this year I got a boyfriend (The Excritor) out of the free trial. But let me tell you something about Match.com. It's addicting. It's worse than nicotine. And I know, because i've tried both. Soon as the Escritor became the Ex-critor I signed up and paid (oh my god, yes, I actually paid) for a one month membership out of which nothing more came than a guy with a receeding hairline and a penchant for pints. We met once, but not again. So I cancelled membership, and signed up for some free online dating with OKcupid.com. Believe it or not the Ex-critor was the one who introduced me to OKCupid. Even more amusing is that part of the reason we broke up was because he refused to take his profile down from OKCupid. So I put one up.

Being free, I didn't feel the need to be clandestine about this one. I convinced friends to join. I dove right in. More success on this one. I didn't end up meeting anyone, but I made friends around the world... South America, Europe etc. that I enjoy conversing with and wouldn't mind visiting. I did have some shady prospects though. Like the amazingly beautiful bisexual girl from western NY who wanted to "share" a guy with, what she claimed was, a rather large phallus. Not that I entertained this thought for longer than a split second, but I spoke to her for awhile trying to figure out whether or not she was just fucking with people. Pun, yes. Pun.

But I was tired of seeing my exes profile, and I was tired of men, and I was trying to focus on school and take myself away fromt he internet. SO I deleted the OKCupid account.

No, after many months of abstinence, i'm back.

This time it is the eHarmony free trial.

This is how it went. My boss and I signed up, for the hell of it, at the same time. I figured i'd just cancel after the seven day free trial. Yesterday was day four, so I cancelled online and called to confirm.

Those bastards. So I get this guy with a really lovely voice on the phone, who starts telling me what a wonderful profile I have, how articulate I am, how compatible I am with others-- that I should really stick around and give it a shot because they'd hate to see me go.

I said no.

He said i'll give you two months free.

I said: Now you're talking.

Well then. So now i'm doing the eHarmony thing. It's interesting. Given, I don't get to pick and choose (oh how I miss the days of picture browsing on Match, there was something divinely satisfying about clicking the delete button on profiles) ... but supposedly the matches i'm being handed are "Highly Compatible" with me.

Like I care? I can't deal with a compatible match at the moment, because I couldn't stick around to cultivate a relationship. But i'm interested in people, that's what it all comes down to. Never know what might happen.