Three weeks ago, I started DateBreak '07, a groundbreaking multimedia project in which I don't go on any first dates until 2008, on the grounds that my dating life was too tragi-comic for one person to bear. "AMG," the first commenter on the post, wrote this:
I give you three weeks.
"PL" followed up:
Ditto if not less.
I know both of these commenters. They know me. Well, three weeks have passed, and guess what - no dates! No embarassing stories about dates gone horribly wrong. None of the inevitable disappointment of going into any meeting with a stranger (or near-stranger) with outsized hopes.
For my success in non-dating, I'd like to thank my lovely firm for scheduling a series of very nice events several times a week, my friends, for occupying time I would have otherwise spent buying drinks for disinterested friends of friends, and a general sense of late-summer malaise.
The Verdict: Mixed. On one hand, I haven't really learned that much that I didn't know. On the other hand, it has helped shore up my blogging - not dating is much more fertile ground for writing than dating, since I worry that my dates will read the blog. Now, I can let it all hang out.
DateBreak so far:
Introducing DateBreak '07!
Statement of Facts
Online Dating: The odds are good, but the goods are odd
Dealbreakers
Worst dating advice from the last 10 days
The Outlaw of Averages
What (desperate, pathetic) Women Want
Facebook Torture
granted, you held out, but the flip side is that you talked about non-dating several times, essentially filling up the time you would have been on bad dates.
i still declare datebreak a losing cause.
Well, the point of this wasn't to save time. I'm not completely sure what it is about, but its not about saving time.
I agree with PL. Get back to dating.Datebeak is and was a losing cause.
Whining about bad dates is much more interesting to read than whining about why you aren't going to date until the end of the year. If you aren't going to date, then just don't date. It shouldn't be that big of a deal.
don't listen to the haters. i like datebreak! maybe because i'm on my own personal datebreak, except i don't blog about it. so keep on!