The Dateable Dork

Holy shit, this has been one HELL of a week.  Apparently turning 30 is the key to unlocking the universe or something, because crap has been flying in all directions lately.  WTF???  Here’s how it went down: As I touched on earlier in the week, I essentially got an unofficial acceptance to grad school on [...]

Kind of a random post tonight – a status report on my (pseudo)dating life, if you will: I’m getting together with NYL on Saturday night – game plan TBD.  I’m kind of surprised that I managed to squeeze a Saturday night out of this guy, considering that I was relegated to Tues and Wed nights a [...]

Remember the other day when that professor emailed me saying that she was interested in my grad school application?  Well, I wound up chatting with her for 45 minutes this morning, and – dare I say it – it actually went very well!  She sounds very friendly/down-to-earth, her research is exactly my cup of tea, [...]

Holy fucking shit, I’m 30 years old today!!!  : )  Can you believe it?  Little DD is a big, bad, 30-year-old ADULT???  I’m still shaking my head in disbelief.  I’m also in quite a bit of disbelief at what an AWESOME 30th birthday bash I had last night, complete with the amazing paella you see [...]

… I came across this awesome comic at xkcd today.  Love it!  NYL and I are still exchanging FB messages and are tying to plan a little get together for next week.  I get all excited when the little “inbox (1)” light pops on.  It’s nauseating, really.  : )  I can’t help it! I’m off to start [...]

There is something about NYL that is getting me all smiley and excited tonight.  We’ve been exchanging these cute little messages back and forth on facebook and agreed to get together again one of these days – maybe next week.  Tonight I was reading through some of the old DD Version 1.0 stuff that I [...]

Don’t you just love facebook?  It’s like the “worlds collide” episode of Seinfeld – your mom, your college roommate, your boss, and your ex are all jam-packed into the same little space, with everyone’s smiling face plastered on there for all to see.  When I post about how I stayed up way too late last [...]

Dear blog, I’ve got a story for you, and you’re not going to like it. I’ll make this short and sweet.  With bullets!  Here’s how it went down: The new male prospect called me out of the blue last night. Apparently he and his GF broke up after a year and a half. I do [...]

This past weekend I came down with the flu, and I’ve been unofficially quarantined in my apartment ever since.  My nose swab came back positive for the flu virus, and although it doesn’t distinguish between regular influenza and the H1N1 virus, it doesn’t really matter at this point.  I’ve been home sick from work all [...]

I have a little bit of a dilemma.  Being completely fed up with my job, and knowing that (hopefully) I’ll be out of there in six months, I’ve already “checked out” mentally, and I think my boss is starting to notice.  Not good.  It’s been a combination of little things over the past few weeks [...]