STATUS CHECK- SEVEN WEEKS

HOW AM I DOING?
Time for another Match.com status check boys and girls! We are now at week 7 and according to Match, I’m having yet another good week:

Only one email? Are you sure? That seems absurd!

What the hell are “yes ratings” anyway? What are these guys rating me on? I haven't the slightest idea, and I haven’t looked on Match or Googled it to find out. I’ll just leave that be for now.

Another new thing (for me at least) is something called a “Phone Alert” on Match. I have received one phone alert this week; somebody has requested to talk and text using Match Phone. I’m not interested, but thank you for making me aware of this feature kind sir!

Now then, let’s get to some numbers! My profile has now been viewed for a total of 8,467 times. This week, 53 men are interested in me! Fantastic! If we add up the amount of men interested in me from the last couple of status checks, then we get a total of 196 + 68 + 53 = 317 men!!! 

It’s raining men! (And possibly one woman)

GUESS WHO CAME BACK
If you guessed Date 3, or the Bachelor, well, you’re wrong. Thankfully.

However, if you guessed Date 5, the Nemesis, then you are damn right! Marvelous!!! He texted me back on...Sunday, was it? Yes, it was Sunday. Then again on Tuesday, asking me if I was available the following evening. 

Now, look- I could have been available, but I chose not to be. There was a slight possibility that I really wouldn’t be available due to work obligations, however, after one date I’m not willing to go out of my way to make a date on a weeknight work. Does that make me a bad person? Quite possibly.

Anyway, the texts have continued through the week so I sense there will be a part II to Date 5.

Now then, if you also had guessed Date 4, the Boss, well you are also correct! Yes, Date 4 had texted me about Memorial Day weekend plans but I never responded. A few days ago, he sent me a follow-up  message on Match.

Is this how he imagines me opening his message?

His message was rather simple; something along the lines of “Found this on the internet and thought it might interest you”—it was some site with an Arkham City Harley Quinn image. 

Thanks, but I still shall not respond (do not want to give him false hope), and Good Day Sir.
I said GOOD DAY.

OPTIONS, OPTIONS- SO MANY OPTIONS!
Gah! I don’t like having this many options at once! Why do these message and winks and favorites come in waves?! Seriously, it’s dead for a week and then all of sudden these men just come out of nowhere and my inbox is full again. 

Sure, it gives me a lot of material for the “Match Messages” posts, which everybody seems to adore, but damn man, I only have so many available time slots, and frankly, only so much capacity to store information—the more people I meet, the more information I have to remember, the more difficult it becomes to keep track of who is who!

Stand back boys, I need a moment.

 

The prior wave of messages contained mostly duds, so that made it quite easy to pick out the seemingly “good” ones. And we know how they turned out (please reference Dates 1 through 4). 

But this time, there are a lot of good looking men who have sent interesting messages! Do I ignore them and carry on with Date 5? Or do I engage in conversation with more, in the event that Date 5 turns out to be a douche?! DECISIONS, DECISIONS!!!!! Oh but wait....

COMING SOON
My Saturday is already booked with Date 5 so I have booked Date 6 for the following Saturday. That’s this coming Saturday. Yes, but of course there’s a Date 6! 

We have been texting for a little over a week now and the only issue so far is that he sends novel length  texts.

Stay tuned for the Date 6 post.