Speed Dating

Good evening kids,

Well, I did it. I went on that speed dating thing tonight and I must say that it was very interesting to say the least. The speed dating started at 8:30. I stopped by at Susan's and spent some time with her before I went out to Rookies. I was a little nervous but Susan helped me put it into perspective. Thanks, Susan. So I leave Susan's feeling pretty good until I get to the bar. I'm sitting in my car going, "What the hell, what the hell!!" But I get out of the car, go into the bar and proceed to chug 2 beers as fast as I can. I will say I was surprised to see so many people. So we go into this room and there are 13 girls and 11 guys. Apparently, two guys cancelled at the last minute. So the dates last about six minutes each and there is a fifteen minute break in between. I'm nervous as all get out but the beer starts kicking in. The first guy I talk to is a guy named Marcos. Very nice guy, speech pathologist. But as the night wears on I'm getting tired and I'm like I want to go home. I asked question like 'do you have any kids, where do you live, what do you do, what do you like to do for fun', but you ask that 11 times you get kind of bored. The interesting fact about all of these guys is that every single one of them have been out of a serious relationship for less than a year. One guy said that he got divorced in January. The range of careers for the guys goes from anesthesiologist to this poor guy who was 27 years old, never had a girlfriend, and likes WWE wrestling. I felt sorry for this poor kid. But the last guy you could tell was just looking for someone to have sex with. To be perfectly honest, I don't see myself doing this again. I felt like I couldn't be myself. It felt more like a job interview. But I gave it the old college try. Now I have to enter my "scorecard" and see if anything comes of it. I really can't remember a lot of the guys. Although there was this one guy there who looked like a dead ringer for Mark from "Rent". I told him this and he looked at me as if I had two heads growing out of my body. I'm glad it's done though. At times I felt like I was in that scene from the 40 year old virgin only it wasn't as funny. There was this one girl who was tanked. She was obnoxious but it was so loud in there from the other people talking that you only heard her every once in a while. Well, that's it for now. Girls I will see you this Friday night and will tell you more about it then. Kisses.

What am I getting myself into?

Hello everybody,

I hope that everyone is doing well. Not much is going on here. I hope that everyone is staying dry in this crazy freaked out spring weather. I have made a decision that might come as a shock to some people. But I, Jen, am going speed dating. I have signed up to do a speed dating thing at the end of this month. I was talking to Susan and Tracy over lunch and I had told them about maybe putting a personal ad on Craigslist. Well, Susan had mentioned speed dating and lo and behold I'm doing it. Plus have you read some of these personal ads on Craigslist. These guys are freaky. At least with speed dating I can see the guys face to face and judge for meyself. I have to do something. I have seen it on TV but this will be an experience. It's taking place in St. Charles and already I'm debating about what to wear. To be perfectly frank, I'm a little freaked out. I'm not the world's greatest conversationalist. I mean I can say some pretty outlandish shit. I think that if I can get through it without pissing somebody off I think I will be doing well. So I need some help. There is about 12-15 guys and supposedly the "dates" last for about 5-7 minutes. I can't ask every single guy what high school they went to. So far that is the only question I can think of. All the other questions I can think of either deal with religion, politics, or sex and if memory serves those are big no no's when first meeting someone. The only other question I can come up with is do they have a criminal record and I don't think that question would go over very well. Especially since this speed dating thing is geared toward, as the web sight quotes, "single professionals". All I can say is I hope this place where they are having it is serving liquor. So if you guys have questions that I can ask I would really appreciate it. Take care and I will see you all at Matt and Jen's.