To Text , Or Not To Text That Is The Question

What if Shakespeare had an Iphone maybe Hamlet would of been written differently..

Why hello boys and girls, seems like ages since I have posted an entree, but it’s been mad crazy at work, and all my dating powers have gone to waste due just to lack of interest in chemistry.com’s pool of potential suitors at the moment.  I mean the bot only spits out males from Maryland to me now, who a majority live way out of my 30 mile radius.  I guess the d.c. chemistry crowd isn’t much or has dwindled since I have joined.

One awesome lesson I did learn in the past month was to never tag a past suitor Mr. Stalker, because he will end up stalking you back, or just perhaps typing in “being noticed versus being interested on chemistry.com” into google and lo and behold out comes my blog.  Thank you internet gods for smiting me with your righteous hand of dating justice!

I am here to entertain, so yes it was a bit embarrassing, but I am not going to stop writing about my experiences.  I just think I need to start giving out consent forms to my future dates.  “Will you please sign on the bottom line that your alias forever on my blog will be Mr. Stalker? Please and Thank You”

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Speaking of Mr’s, a large part of my slow halt on the website was because for the month of October, Mr. Margaritas and I had been casually going out on dates every Friday to various places in the district or Arlington/Alexandria (I rarely used to venture out to northern va, but I did discover the very cool Galaxy Hut in Clarendon).  The commute on both of our parts was quite time consuming, we liked hanging out, but we were wanting different things i.e. he stated to me 6 dates in, that he just got out of a 3 year relationship.  Baggage, no thank you…  So instead of wasting our time going back and forth, it was best to just end things.  I won’t lie I was a bit sad to see my Friday night darting buddy/potential company X-mas party date go , but what can you do? Move on, with another dating mishap under your belt.

The New York Times actually did a very cool piece on commuting relationships in NYC:  long distance relationships can they really last?

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Stemming from my fourth date with Mr. Margaritas, I found myself in a semi-sticky situation, that I found myself asking other female friends their opinions on the subject.  What is the correct protocol for text messages?  I mean after the date, how soon is too soon to text the datee?  I mean it’s nice to give a thumbs up, a thanks, or it was fun text, but not everyone feels the same about it, is a text like a phone call?  Must we wait a certain amount of days before we can respond to a text or send out that text asking about a next potential date?  I don’t know, seriously I am a bit clueless on this subject.

There probably is no such thing as texting protocol and I am just making this all up because I tend to text my way into conversations instead of picking up the phone and calling someone, ha.  I guess that makes me a bit lame.  I think receiving a text message is much more fun, what can I say?

I am having no luck with my fellow Virginians thus my saga continues with the Maryland Men…..

*There is A Good Article on Texting Protocol:http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_250/261_relationship-rules-text-messaging.html