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	<title>The Dateable Dork</title>
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		<title>What to do when your totally platonic friend starts jerking off over the phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the appropriate response is to flip out and hang up on him.  At least, that&#8217;s what I did.  Ha!  Here&#8217;s how it went down:
So I happen to find myself chatting with the NMP over the phone really late one night last week, like after midnight on a Tuesday or something.  I was telling him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/03/what-to-do-when-your-totally-platonic-friend-starts-jerking-off-over-the-phone/</link>
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		<title>The irony is not lost on me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the rub (mmmmm&#8230; rub&#8230;): although the CA school was amazing, the school that I absolutely fell in love with is the one here in the northeast.  Hello???  What happened to my big plans to move to the west coast and bask in the sunshine while hot surfer dudes fetched me a margarita?  What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/03/the-irony-is-not-lost-on-me/</link>
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		<title>Home at last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home!  I had planned on checking in this past weekend, but my whirlwind travel plans left me pretty sleepy and I never made it to the blog.  Oh well!  I actually went on two grad school visits &#8211; the one in CA last week, and one here in the northeast early this week.  Craziness!  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/03/home-at-last/</link>
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		<title>West coast, here I come!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well my dears, the time has come.  I will be going on my first grad school campus visit this week &#8211; ahhhh!  So exciting, especially because it&#8217;s allllllllll the way out on the west coast (far away from this crappy/snowy/rainy weather we&#8217;ve been having in New York) in the magical world of sunny California.  Pacific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/03/west-coast-here-i-come/</link>
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		<title>Blog, what happened to us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear blog,
There was once a time when I could tell you everything, when you were my BFF, when I would tell you things that I didn&#8217;t tell anyone else, and when I could write freely and openly and really spill my guts to you.  Remember those days?  Ah yes, I remember them fondly.  But blog, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/blog-what-happened-to-us/</link>
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		<title>Sick again &#8211; WTF?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came down with a stomach bug on Monday night and have been home sick for the past two days.  Ugh.  Why have I been getting so sick this winter?  It&#8217;s getting to the point where I&#8217;m going to have to take time off without pay for my upcoming grad school visits because I&#8217;m really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/sick-again-wtf/</link>
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		<title>My first big acceptance package came in the mail today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything all of a sudden seems so REAL now that I&#8217;m holding the 100% official &#8212; signed by the dean of the graduate school &#8211; acceptance letter and fellowship offer in my hands.  On university letterhead.  In a nice shiny folder.  With dollar signs and a little box to check &#8220;accept&#8221; and give them my social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/my-first-big-acceptance-package-came-in-the-mail-today/</link>
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		<title>Practicing my moves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I went ice skating for the first time in, oh, about 15 years.  Dudes, it was awesome!  I was really into in-line skating as a teenager, and all my old moves came rushing back, only this time, on the ice.  I think in-line skating and ice skating are pretty similar, for a completely amaetur recreationist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/practicing-my-moves/</link>
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		<title>I heart the winter Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OMG, did you see that AWESOME snowboarding tonight????  And the downhill skiing???  Holy shit!  I am totally PUMPED for the return of men&#8217;s figure skating tomorrow night, not to mention the women&#8217;s figure skating still to come.  So exciting!!
Ok, just had to get that out.  : )
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		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/i-heart-the-winter-olympics/</link>
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		<title>I finally responded to the five-year BF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember a few weeks ago when I got a completely random and heart-stopping email from the five-year BF?  Well, I&#8217;ve been letting it fester in my inbox for a few weeks while I pondered the situation.  First I had to get over the shock of receiving such an email in the first place, then I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/i-finally-responded-to-the-five-year-bf/</link>
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		<title>Acknowledging a change in perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was running some errands the other day and reflecting on my hot tub night with NYL (drooling, with ga-ga eyes, as usual), I inadvertently stumbled upon an interesting realization: I&#8217;m enjoying sex much more these days for the intimacy as opposed to the orgasms.  I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I really do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/acknowledging-a-change-in-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy V-Day, everyone!  : )  In honor of yet another Valentine&#8217;s Day as a single woman, I&#8217;m going grocery shopping, paying bills, watching the Olympics, and having dinner with a friend (another single woman).  How romantic, right?  Ha.  Am I bitter?  Maybe a little.  Have I been rolling my eyes at all the cheesy V-Day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/happy-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>Warm revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something to be said for being warm.
As NYL and I were cooking a big pot of curry last night, chopping and stirring and &#8220;accidentally&#8221; bumping into each other in the kitchen, I was warm.
As we cuddled up on the couch to eat dinner, watch the new episode of LOST, and watch the episode [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/warm-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Making plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a craaaaaazy busy day at work, which kinda sucked because I have a bunch of plans to make and no time to make them.  Geez.  Doesn&#8217;t my boss know that I have more important things to do during the day than work??  Hahahaha.  Anyway, get a load of the exciting plans being made this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/making-plans/</link>
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		<title>Today turned out to be totally awesome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning pondering what to do with my wide-open Saturday, and lo and behold, it turned out to be a pretty freaking awesome day.  Actually, it was completely and amazingly awesome, to be perfectly honest.  My face literally hurts from smiling so much.  I am a happy DD tonight!!!!  : )
Awesome thing #1: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/today-turned-out-to-be-totally-awesome/</link>
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		<title>The NMP is being a total douche</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the new male prospect called me the other day saying that he had a vibrator for me and wanted to come over and hook up?  That phone call was a total disaster, to put it mildly.  I&#8217;ve actually spoken with him twice more since then, and it&#8217;s gotten to the point where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/the-nmp-is-being-a-total-douche/</link>
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		<title>One of the sexiest nights of my life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh baby, did I have a fucking AWESOME night on Saturday night with New Year&#8217;s Lips.  Hands down, the most fun I&#8217;ve had in a very long time, even more fun than my recent birthday bash and the last time I hung out with NYL, both of which were pretty damn awesome.  There are so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/one-of-the-sexiest-nights-of-my-life/</link>
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		<title>Grad school update: 2 down, 2 to go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in: unofficial acceptance to grad school #2, complete with full university fellowship and free airfare to go visit!  Am I fucking AWESOME or what??????  : )
And yes, I absolutely refuse to be humble about this.  Go me!!!!
I was so happy about this one that I was actually crying on my way home from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/02/grad-school-update-2-down-2-to-go/</link>
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		<title>I turned 30 and all hell broke loose!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s how it went down:
As I touched on earlier in the week, I essentially got an unofficial acceptance to grad school on Tuesday.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/i-turned-30-and-all-hell-broke-loose/</link>
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		<title>Miscellaneous man updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kind of a random post tonight &#8211; a status report on my (pseudo)dating life, if you will:
I&#8217;m getting together with NYL on Saturday night &#8211; game plan TBD.  I&#8217;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 few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/miscellaneous-man-updates/</link>
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		<title>All signs point to yes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; dare I say it &#8211; it actually went very well!  She sounds very friendly/down-to-earth, her research is exactly my cup of tea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/all-signs-point-to-yes/</link>
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		<title>Happy 30th Birthday to me!</title>
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Holy fucking shit, I&#8217;m 30 years old today!!!  : )  Can you believe it?  Little DD is a big, bad, 30-year-old ADULT???  I&#8217;m still shaking my head in disbelief.  I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/happy-30th-birthday-to-me/</link>
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		<title>Speaking of hooking up through facebook&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; 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 &#8220;inbox (1)&#8221; light pops on.  It&#8217;s nauseating, really.  : )  I can&#8217;t help it!
I&#8217;m off to start prepping for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/speaking-of-hooking-up-through-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Falling all over again (again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something about NYL that is getting me all smiley and excited tonight.  We&#8217;ve been exchanging these cute little messages back and forth on facebook and agreed to get together again one of these days &#8211; maybe next week.  Tonight I was reading through some of the old DD Version 1.0 stuff that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/falling-all-over-again-again/</link>
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		<title>I won&#8217;t call you after sex, but will you be my facebook friend?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you just love facebook?  It&#8217;s like the &#8220;worlds collide&#8221; episode of Seinfeld &#8211; your mom, your college roommate, your boss, and your ex are all jam-packed into the same little space, with everyone&#8217;s smiling face plastered on there for all to see.  When I post about how I stayed up way too late last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/i-wont-call-you-after-sex-but-will-you-be-my-facebook-friend/</link>
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		<title>Newly-single NMP wants another blowjob</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear blog,
I&#8217;ve got a story for you, and you&#8217;re not going to like it.
I&#8217;ll make this short and sweet.  With bullets!  Here&#8217;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 a little happy dance in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/newly-single-nmp-wants-another-blowjob/</link>
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		<title>Next year I&#8217;m getting a flu shot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I came down with the flu, and I&#8217;ve been unofficially quarantined in my apartment ever since.  My nose swab came back positive for the flu virus, and although it doesn&#8217;t distinguish between regular influenza and the H1N1 virus, it doesn&#8217;t really matter at this point.  I&#8217;ve been home sick from work all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/next-year-im-getting-a-flu-shot/</link>
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		<title>Mentally checked out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a little bit of a dilemma.  Being completely fed up with my job, and knowing that (hopefully) I&#8217;ll be out of there in six months, I&#8217;ve already &#8220;checked out&#8221; mentally, and I think my boss is starting to notice.  Not good.  It&#8217;s been a combination of little things over the past few weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/mentally-checked-out/</link>
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		<title>Weight Watchers update: I give up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, my dears, I completely give up (for now).  I&#8217;m SO sick of obsessing over food &#8211; what I can eat, when I can eat, how much I can eat, how much I&#8217;ve already eaten, how much I have left to eat &#8211; enough already!!!  I also miss eating things that I essentially cut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/weight-watchers-update-i-give-up/</link>
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		<title>DD&#8217;s year-in-review: 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!  : )  Can you *believe* it&#8217;s freaking 2010 already???  Where the hell did the last 10 years go?  How did it all happen so fast?  What the hell are we all supposed to do with this brand spanking new decade in front of us, waiting to be lived and breathed and stomped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2010/01/dds-year-in-review-2009/</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays this year!  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on in my demented little world:
Christmas with the fam was great, but DAMN did I do a hell of a lot of cooking in the few days leading up to it.  So much cooking, in fact, that I&#8217;ve been eating take-out pretty much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Oh what a night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dudes, I had one hell of a night on Friday night.  Get this:
Two friends and I had plans to have dinner at one of my favorite new tapas restaurants and then head over to a bar for some live music/drinks/partying/etc.  Dinner was great (sooooo delicious), and we made it over to the bar as planned.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/oh-what-a-night/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve waited 5 years for this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first day in our new office, and it was probably the best work day I&#8217;ve ever had, ever.  For the very first time in over five years, I was comfortable (i.e., NOT FREEZING COLD) at my desk.  I had always known that I was cold and uncomfortable at work, but I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/ive-waited-5-years-for-this/</link>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman + Tim Burton = happy girl</title>
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Oh hello there.  Long time no post!  I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all noticed that I haven&#8217;t quite been feeling the bloggy mood lately, but life marches on outside of this little site.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been a-poppin&#8217; lately:
I&#8217;m still not over my little encounter with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig the other night.  I snapped the above [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/hugh-jackman-tim-burton-happy-girl/</link>
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		<title>This is what happens when I encounter one of my &#8220;unattainable men&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OMG OMG OMG
Daniel Craig.  Hugh Jackman.  Shirtless.  There was screaming.  I will be completely incapacitated until further notice.
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		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/this-is-what-happens-when-i-encounter-one-of-my-unattainable-men/</link>
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		<title>Dumped on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who was recently dumped on Facebook.  Kind of.  Apparently she and this guy had been starting something up &#8211; lots of phone calls, texts, and one actual date &#8211; and then suddenly he changed his Facebook status to &#8220;in a relationship&#8221; &#8211; with someone else.  Uhhh, what the fuck???  Apparently, unbeknownst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/12/dumped-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>The dreaded photo holiday card is dreaded no more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving!  Sorry for the radio silence around here &#8211; I kind of fell off the map over the long holiday weekend.  It happens.  : )
Now that Thanksgiving is over (and now that tomorrow is December 1st &#8211; yikes!), the holiday season is officially upon us&#8230; and you know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/the-dreaded-photo-holiday-card-is-dreaded-no-more/</link>
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		<title>Oh, the cooking.  Oh, the humanity.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I cooked all day.  ALL DAY.  I also washed dishes all day.  And I was standing up at my kitchen counter all day.  And I chopped and peeled so many things that I think I have a blister on my finger.  BUT, I have a fridge full of scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner components, all packaged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/oh-the-cooking-oh-the-humanity/</link>
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		<title>Are you &#8220;miserable&#8221; being single?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago when this blog was absolutely exploding with craziness surrounding my now-infamous list of dating requirements and educational snobbery, reader/commenter Mr_Right referred me to this article which talks about whether it&#8217;s worth it to settle for a decent guy (or girl) instead of wallowing in singledom for all eternity.  Basically, it recommends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/are-you-miserable-being-single/</link>
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		<title>First application submitted (!!!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just popping in on this gorgeous weekend to say that I submitted my first grad school application today.  Very exciting!!  : )  I guess there was a part of me that didn&#8217;t think I would actually go through with it, that this was just some crazy idea that I came up with to distract myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/first-application-submitted/</link>
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		<title>More good stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peeps, I am in such a great mood tonight!  Lots of great stuff is going on these days.  DD is a happy girl.  Observe:

I finished my grad school Statements of Purpose!  Yessssssss!!!  All that&#8217;s left to do is proofread, chase down my last recommendation (my boss, geez), and SUBMIT!
I&#8217;m getting excited about cooking Thanksgiving dinner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/more-good-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Somebody pinch me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember this?  Well, I just scored a front-row ticket to this.  There are no words.  Let the countdown begin.  : )
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		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/somebody-pinch-me/</link>
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		<title>Good stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good stuff to report tonight: I haven&#8217;t left this chair for three and a half hours.  I&#8217;ve been diligently working on grad school applications after I fell off the wagon for a few weeks, what with all that Halloween nonsense and trying to drool over my exes (oh wait, that never happened, right?).  Progress has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/good-stuff/</link>
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		<title>A completely hypothetical situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Say, for instance, that I happened to find myself sitting across from a certain ex at a deliciously scrumptious tapas restaurant last night.
Say that we happened to be surrounded by glasses of absolutely fucking fantastic wine, a mind-blowingly tasty meal, and dessert that could make you swear off all other foods for all eternity.
Say that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/a-completely-hypothetical-situation/</link>
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		<title>Wake-up call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what the hell happened this weekend, but I spent pretty much all of it in a completely delusional haze, swirled up in another universe or something, completely detached from reality.  Instead of doing anything even remotely productive (or even something as simple at hanging out with friends), I spent the weekend auctioning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/wake-up-call/</link>
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		<title>eHarmony is for losers and virgins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a commercial for eHarmony, and when I finished throwing up out of pure disgust (god, those commercials are SO cheesy, right?), I decided to write up a quick little post on my feelings about this mother of all dating sites.  Let me preface this discussion with the following two points: (1) I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/eharmony-is-for-losers-and-virgins/</link>
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		<title>I think I need a Santa outfit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had so much fun dressing up in that referee costume for Halloween, and it got me thinking&#8230; why don&#8217;t I do that more often?  Granted, it&#8217;s only socially acceptable to wear that kind of stuff out in public for one night each year, but I can certainly wear some fun little outfits for *indoor* [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/i-think-i-need-a-santa-outfit/</link>
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		<title>My response to recent comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh.
Ok, my lovely readers, in light of the recent hubbub surrounding my ill-fated &#8220;list of dating requirements,&#8221; I have to get a few things off my chest:
1.  CHILL OUT, people.  Please.  For the love of god.
2.  I firmly believe that things have been blown WAY out of proportion.  It&#8217;s funny &#8211; when I was writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/my-response-to-recent-comments/</link>
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		<title>Respect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been some fairly heated comments on this blog lately, and I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to remind everyone that this blog should be a place of mutual respect.  I respect your right to say whatever you&#8217;d like about me, but since we&#8217;re all adults here, I expect that all comments will be made with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/respect/</link>
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		<title>It figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It figures&#8221; was the subject line of an email that was waiting in my inbox when I arrived home this evening.  Allow me to explain:
I had an absolutely fabulous day today shopping, shopping, shopping, and taking the occasional break in a coffee shop sipping hot apple cider and knitting a sweater (yes, I knit sweaters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thedateabledork.com/2009/11/it-figures/</link>
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