Video Download?
Venereal Disease?
Vichyssoise Deluxe, perhaps?
I'm not trying to avoid Valentines Day. Really.
For a girl mired in some variation of is-it-or-isn't-it? relationship limbo about this time of year for the past 3, I have some awesome plans so far:
1) Mail card to Grandma.Other than that, I find it hard to get into.
2) Call Mom & Dad.
3) Wake up on February 15.
4) Buy half-priced bag of Necco hearts from CVS.
When you're single on the Lovers Holiday, you are single on the Lovers Holiday. That means your friends either a) inundate you with well-wishes because they think you're feeling left out or b) ignore you because they know you write a blog about your dating life and aren't seeing anyone seriously, since you've told them as much, and they realize, based on the tone of your recent posts, you're acting a bit testily on the subject lately and maybe it would be both less painful and more PC just not to bring it up at all.
Folks, it's OK, really.
I give credit to Cousin J, who never seems to fear wading into the cesspool of my bad mood. She e-mailed from Nicaragua yesterday, asking me, rightly of course, to ease up and, well, just breathe.
" ..... get a date for next weekend with anyone to distract yourself and feel sexy so you can reduce the game we play of making med guy into someone before he has a chance to tell you who he is. and before you can decide whether you'd like him to like you."It's good advice. Although I do need to share with her that, in fact, I had already brainstormed a potential great way to spend at least one evening .... Friday night at Noir in Harvard Square, attending the "Love Letters" party thrown by boston.com.
Love Letters is a blog moderated by columnist Meredith Goldstein, herself 30-something and single. It features a daily letter of woe, followed by some serious Meredith advice (usually pithy and wise), followed by about 450 pages of sometimes irreverant, sometimes scary reader comments. (I suspect many commenters will be at the party, making other attendees try to guess their on-line monikers and reminiscing over their favorite letters.)
Nonetheless, it sounds wacky. Curious. Fun. Like one of those things you always tell yourself you'll do, but never quite have the figurative balls to follow through on.
Besides, in the "FAQ" post linked to above, Meredith answers a question well worth asking:
Q: I'm a straight guy who's too cool to go to this type of thing. Any reason I should let my guard down and show up?I could be into this. Stay posted.
A: Not to sound shallow, but every straight, single woman I've met who reads Love Letters is quite pretty. That's not really important, of course, but it's just something worth mentioning. It's a hot bunch, and a social bunch. Just so you know.
3 comments:
Ah! That's a FABULOUS idea! I sometimes comment on LL (never one of the scary ones I hope..), but can't go to the event. Would love to read your take on it, so I really hope you blog about how it went!! And good luck to you, who knows... :) BTW, I personally always (single or not) found VD ridiculous, a manufactured excuse to get people to spend money for no good reason! If a relationship is good - the love is there daily. And if it needs a VD to feel romantic, it won't last to next VD anyhow. Single or not, I never celebrated it.
Ooh, I was planning on going to that Love Letters party, too! Then we could start the "support group for 30-something female online daters contacted by idiosyncratic Bostonians" as referenced here in April '09.
@RBR -- I'm now wondering if there are going to be 500,000 people there? Noir is not a big bar. But hey, you know what I look like if you end up coming and there isn't a rock-star-ticket line out into the snow....
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