Allow myself to introduce...myself.

If you aren't interested in reading about a single girl’s dating exploits in and around Washington, DC, you should probably not be here.  I’m not guaranteeing greatness, but I am hoping for some great stories to come out of this brand-new-to-me online dating scene.

You see, I’m on OKCupid now.  This is a fairly recent development, stemming out of a drunken night with a girlfriend a few months back.  She and I have a mutual friend who is using the dating service to hook up with girls left and right, and we thought that creating a fake account to mess with him was a fabulous idea.  Unfortunately for us, our beer goggles prevented us from seeing the “Search” bar on the website, so instead, we just answered all of the questions with the always-incredible answer of “MARIOKART 64.”  (Yes, all-caps).  So that’s how I came to become part of the vast, odd, slightly creepy universe that is online dating.

But here’s the thing: dudes messaged me back.  Umm, hello guys, can you not tell that this is a dummy account?  Even my profile picture was me dressed up as Luigi from Halloween a couple of years ago.  Couldn’t even see my face.  But there I was, getting notes left and right from guys who were challenging me to MarioKart tournaments.  For their sakes, I didn’t take them up on it, because I’d just kick their asses (and really, I didn’t want to go out with anyone who was stupid enough to think I was actually taking the account seriously- not trying to end up in a ditch somewhere, wrists bound together with a controller cord).

Anyway, I disabled the account after about 24 hours and 15 messages.  I also started seeing someone.  After that ended about 3 weeks ago, I figured what the hell, I’m moving in the fall, tons of my friends are out of the area already; might as well meet some new guys and hopefully gain some new friends and stories.  Stories that I’m planning to catalogue right here!  I then opened my account back up and started revamping some of my profile (MK64 is still on there, don’t worry) and answering some of their questions honestly.  This led to OKC telling me that I’m “more adventurous” and “less kind” most of the girls on the site.  Umm yeah, next time surprise me, OKC.

So there’s that part of this adventure.  I’ve got a lot of places to see and things to do before I leave the DC area, and I fully intend to rope some online dating guys into experiencing them with me.

Suckers.