men & the seasons: an internet-dating head count
This list includes all and only first dates from the beginning of my internet dating through the present moment (’present’ means all first dates currently scheduled). It doesn’t include the stats for all the interested internet men I turned down or stopped corresponding with for one reason or another (those numbers would be much larger), just the men I actually met. These are the stats for a picky dater.
2006
July - 2
August - 0
September - 3
October - 3
[I was dating Rolly 27 October - 10 December]
December - 1
2007
January - 3
February - 0
March - 1
April - 3
May - 4
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If I have to go through another year of internet dating (please no!), I’ll know enough now not to keep changing my profile in August (don’t waste the time: no one’s reading it) and not to get down-hearted in February (the men will come out of the woodwork when the weather improves).
Lerner and Loewe were right about ‘the lusty month of May’ (that’s Camelot — for those of you too young to remember it).
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Twenty men in about eleven months; not a wild old time, but not too bad for a sexagenarian with a fulltime job.
UPDATE — 30 May
June - 2 [so far...]
May 22, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Figures no men are around in February - they’re all trying to avoid the Valentine’s Day dilemma! August I can’t explain though…
May 23, 2007 at 4:11 am
Actually I did have a date or two _planned_ in February, with the man I blogged as ’southern fried date’ (see the Feb posts and one for March). Every time he asked me out for a date, it snowed, and he couldn’t get in from the suburbs. In fact on this very blog I _predicted_ a snowstorm for Friday 16 March because SFD had asked me out for that night — and there Was one!! Remember, once Valentine’s Day is over, the guys don’t have to worry about it…. And August is just dead time….people go away…or stagnate….or are too hot to move. Remember, it’s sexagenarians and septuagenarians I’m dating, not kids.