The ridiculousness irony of speed-dating: You have nearly five minutes to make a connection with a stranger but SOOO much can come out of that little time. It's genius really. But kind of tough too.

Last week Hurry Date was a real gem and let me check out the art that is speed-dating at Lower Greenville's Stout. I met up with some great guys. They seemed to dig me...

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I'm not really sure why I'm dreading this number. It is afterall, as many of you have pointed out, just a number. But I guess as a child and through my teens, I saw 30 as that marker of your successes, how far you have come and how far you may be going... (more)

What does a video camera, a guy who doesn't know about chemistry and Kermit the Frog have in common? They were all part of my exciting speed dating experiment last night at Stout on Lower Greenville -- courtesy of Hurry Date.

I walked into the bar a little apprehensive but curious. Assistant editor Aly Fleet came out with me to document my speed-dating process. Which was pretty funny considering that while we were waiting for everything to start, about two random Hurry-Daters came over and hit on Aly big time. Let’s just say she wasn’t all that flattered. She quickly switched one of her rings from the right hand to the left ring-finger to ward off any evil spirits... (more)

My singles meet up group has decided to start a speed-dating group. This is ironic because I will participate in a speed-dating experience tomorrow at Stout. It's a little spot on Greenville and the folks over at Hurry Date have been kind enough to squeeze me in. I've done this speed-dating thing before. Sometime in 2006... (more)

Yes ladies and gentleman, those are the words of my most recent match on a popular online dating site. Under the sentence: The one thing (blank) is most passionate about, (blank) wrote: I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT MY PASSINTATE LATER..

Not only do I not really like what this implies, but are you kidding? Hit the spell check sir. Everybody's doing it...

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Someone has stolen your thunder? Got any advice on how to handle that? I have one idea. Start doing something about it. I mean really start and not talk about how you will start. Just take a very gorilla approach. Get creative. And don't fear the worst.

Yea. I didn't put that on my list of resolutions. I may have just frightened our new assistant editor after driving back from lunch.

Please hand me the chalk and point me to the blackboard. I shall write over and over again, "I'm a good person...I'm a good person..."

Seeing those words in the subject line of my email used to give me a little bit of excitement. I would quickly head on over to see who this mystery guy might be. Now I yawn and say, "These four months can't end quick enough" and check my account every other day instead of instantly. In the long line of new things I'm trying this year to get back into the dating world, online dating sites are unfortunately on my list. Right now they are kind of on another list that I can't really say on this family-oriented, wonderful Web site... (more)

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My latest "adventure" on a very popular dating site you see commercials for like every day on this planet was, well, eye-opening. I'm a very open person. Maybe TOO open. Below are questions that a potential date emailed me after initiating communication first. The bolded lines are my answers. This guy closed me as a match immediately after.

Now you be the journalist...which answer do YOU think ran him off?! Keep in mind that choice "E" were write-ins. Maybe I should stop doing that.The other ones are multiple choice options.  The male account execs. here in the office, Malik Marshall and Rick Juarez, just told me I revealed too much in that last question!

 

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