Success at last After my first bad experience with a date from match.com I was a bit skeptical as to how great the second guy I decided to meet with actually was. We talked on the phone, emailed each other and chatted online and he seemed great but like I said, I was still skeptical. We decided to go for dinner and drinks at the Bocca restaurant in the French Quarter. I walked into the restaurant and asked the hostess if my date had arrived yet. She said he had arrived a couple of minutes before I did and she  read more..

Geeks Are Us I met my date through joint association on a website. We were on the same site for a year or so before we started talking through MSN. We continued to chat for almost three years before finally we decided to meet up for a date. The first time around was ok. We went to a nice little restaurant out of the way and sat and chatted most of the way. I couldn't even remember if I tried what we ate, because we were too busy talking. It was nice, and so we arranged a second date. This time it would be a  read more..

Coffee, IN YOUR FACE! I had been emailing and chatting with a guy that match.com had matched me up with. He seemed great and I couldn't wait to meet him. We had decided to go to Starbucks because it was better to get to know each other over a cup of coffee then it is to sit in a dark movie theater. When I got there, he was already waiting for me so I went to sit with him. We went to the counter together to order our coffee. Everything was going good and we talked for quite some time. Some guys came up to us and they  read more..

Bad Timing, Good Date I couldn't have picked a worse time to get a match up with someone for a date. I was leaving town, moving to another city a few hundred miles away and would not be back for months at a time, and then only for short visits. I just hadn't got round to changing my account details, to reflect my soon to be new home. So when the guy got in touch I decided to give it a go, figuring it wouldn't work out anyway. We went out clubbing, and it turned out we had friends in common. We drank way too much, and  read more..

Nice Guy, Not My Type My first date with this company was actually pretty decent. I heard from the guy a couple of times before the date, we emailed back and forth trying to decide what to do. We settled on something simple and nice and local; Joe's Crab Shack. We'd both been there in the past and both loved the food so we figured it was a good start. The guy was early, and I was not. But he was really nice about it, and really forgiving. But that was part of the problem; he was too forgiving. The whole night he was  read more..

Still a boy, not yet a man. The plan for our date was to meet casually for a movie at the local shopping centre, and then head on for a movie. After some discussion I finally convinced him that Alien versus Predator requiem was not a classy movie for a date, and we settled on the golden compass instead. The movie was enjoyable, but Nick seemed to be under the impression that he was still a teenager instead of a grown man, and seemed to think that wandering hands are acceptable in a cinema, when there are also children there  read more..

not too bad for a first date I hooked up with Kai around late November... you know how it is, going in to the holidays and all without a date. We chatted by email for a couple weeks before I agreed to meet him at a local Thai restaurant (at his suggestion - and man, what an awesome dig! I'm going there again soon!). While he didn't look a whole lot like the photos he sent me (I swear he was either much younger or it was a brother or something!), it was nice meeting him. He was gentlemanly, but seemed very nervous, like I  read more..

Food Was the Best Part We did not communicate much at all before the first date. This was a shame, because we might have learned at that point that we really had little to nothing in common. We were going to an Italian/Greek restaurant called Zesty's, in Philedelphia, but unfortunately my date was vegetarian. Greeks and Italians tend to like their meat so there was really little choice for a vegetarian and that set a bad tone to the rest of the date. I found the food, music and the whole place really was excellent.  read more..

Preview of Things to Come After a busy couple of weeks, "Dave" and I finally made plans to go to dinner and the movies, a much more traditional type of date. We had fun on the first one, but I wasn't really sure if he was someone I could see myself with years down the road, let alone months. We picked National Treasure, as it was supposed to be a nice general movie and we had liked the first one. We went to a small Italian restaurant I had never heard of near his place. The food was amazing, and the wine selection wasn't  read more..

Nothing New What can be more fun than going to Sea World? An entertaining date. My thought is always if I find something fun and stimulating to do on a date it won't be as likely to be filled with awkward silence and go badly. This time I was wrong. Admittedly I'm not much for rides. I've been going to Sea World since I was a kid. We bought season passes since its educational not just fun. I like to feed the dolphins and see the different types of fish. The rides are great for when your legs are tired, but  read more..