Comments | ranagar: Pathetic or Encouraging?

ranagar

Pathetic or Encouraging?

Jun 10, 2004 00:19

I just entered "Scott's I swore I'd never-land" again. (I think I need to delete the word "never" from my mental vocabulary) I just spent some time on, of all things, yahoo personals. I'm pretty sure that somehow counts as pathetic ( Read more... )

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tyratae June 10 2004, 05:05:42 UTC

you're so cute.

and shut up. it's not just for losers. or if it is, i'm a bigger loser cuz i did it first, years and years ago. and met a handful of boring people, some temporarily interesting online conversationalists, and a really nice guy i liked well enough to go out with for a while, drag to a few parties, and then marry off to a friend of ours. (i stopped there b/c in the meantime i'd called utt, been drug to one of his parties, hooked up w/and spent a year w/erc, and had moved on to other more distructive methods of maintaining a personal life, most of which you remember far too well.) definitely a net-positive experience, even if it's had much more of an effect on her life than on mine!

ranagar June 10 2004, 07:10:14 UTC

Well, I obviously don't think YOU are a loser, but we know what we think of the guy of which you speak!

tyratae June 10 2004, 07:19:23 UTC

i like him. or at least i liked him a LOT before he got with her, and i still like him most of what little time i see or get to interact with him. she just... makes things difficult, as is her specialty, and it's contagious.

they're talking about kid #2, though, so it must be working out great for them!

ranagar June 10 2004, 08:14:53 UTC

All I can say, is I hope the kids don't turn out as obnoxious as them.

I know he was nice to you. He was a d*ck to be before he ever met her. I guess it was a testosterone thing.

ovrclokd June 10 2004, 05:59:30 UTC

one of the appeals of an online romance is that you can use the medium to reinvent yourself - who you want to be, who you believe the other person wants you to be, or someone you've always thought it would be fun to be for a day. which would be fine if people didn't then try to cross the line into meatspace, with all the accompanying disillusionments and complications. on the internet, you don't know if they're a dog - but once you meet them ( ... )

ranagar June 10 2004, 07:15:50 UTC

At least this one has pics - so unless they are bold enough to put pics of someone else up, that's at least something. I put my pics on a temp site while I am building my "Barber Boys online photo album" here:

Barber Boys

(I'm assuming that standard html works in these windows... guess I'll find out in like 5 sec!)

Encouraging west_wind June 10 2004, 08:48:57 UTC

Somehow I don't think you will have a problem charming anyone you meet. Hopefully you will meet someone just as charming. My vote is for "Encouraging!"

Re: Encouraging ranagar June 10 2004, 15:39:10 UTC

Ya' know, that actually means a lot to me coming from you, since we never really got to meet and I was set-upon you after whining to tyratae about having "run out of cool, available women to hit on"!

Thanks.

jeymin June 10 2004, 09:45:29 UTC

On-line stuff like this seems to be the new way to go. I know several people who met their spouse (or spouse-to-be) on the internet. One woman I worked with had been married to the guy for 5 yrs (and that was 2 yrs ago) and they were still happily in love. Another woman I currently work with met a guy on the internet and she and her 2 kids will be moving to Ohio come September and she will be getting married then. They have been dating for a bit over a year now I think. After school, it can be hard to meet people. I am glad I met my hubbie in grad school because the only thing I do outside of work is horse-back ride, and there are very few men who ride English, and very few of them are actually straight... So good luck and happy hunting! :)

good luck vilejynx June 10 2004, 16:18:49 UTC

And I say good for you. Hope that it works out well for you. Seems like a good technique; you're a busy guy, and you keep hanging out with all these people who are all paired off. Let us know how it goes!

Re: good luck ranagar June 10 2004, 20:54:53 UTC

Yeah, that's just 'cause all of my "ones that got away" got snatched up by all my friends! (Remind me why I didn't keep you for myself...) ;)

Thanks for the support. I'm sure things will work out. At the moment the quiet house is just a tad lonley. Luckilly, I never go more than 2 or 3 days without the kids. Without them, I'm pretty sure I'd go insane (or be hanging out at college kid parties!)