before seeing ’sex and the city’ (the film)

Well, before seeing the rest of it, that is: on the New York Times web site and I suppose lots of other places on the web, you can see so many trailers that you wonder what’s left un-previewed.
In one sequence, Carrie is reading ‘Cinderella’ to a four-year-old girl, and as she closes the [...]

vignettes from a january without romance (so far…)

ROLLY’S SHRINK: I have someone I think might be good for you: he’s very smart, very experienced, very understanding — but his office is even messier than mine.
ME: That’s not a problem. (I didn’t think Rolly’s shrink’s office looked messy; I thought it looked artsy and literary and had ‘atmosphere.’ * [...]

2008: the dating pipeline

Okay; enough sob stories. It will be fun for me to sneak in nasty comments about Performer here & there, but it will be more fun for you if I get you up-to-date on the men in my pipeline….
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DATES SO FAR
I had two dates with REG [...]

dating & thanksgiving: the story continues; with update

I saw Performer last night but was too exhausted to broach this issue, and we both had much to do early in the morning.
However, tonight, when we talk on the phone, I’m going to say that I’d like him to tell the children the truth before they all come over on Thanksgiving, or to come [...]

the right side of the bed

I have to have the right side of the bed.
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For the twenty-four years I spent with my now-ex-husband, twenty-one of those years in marriage, he had the right side of the bed, because he ‘had to have’ it also.
I’ve forgotten or [...]

my date with performer

This
may
be
The
One.
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It’s 4 a.m and he just went home. I have to get to bed now.
More tomorrow.
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Wednesday morning.
Have not gotten enough sleep but not able to sleep any more.
Just enough energy for a string of thoughts & details:
In order to lower my expectations before [...]

a somewhat unusual evening…with 3 men

For many people, a two-glasses-of-wine evening is akin to teetotaling.
For me, it was a high old time. Last night was the first time I’d had two glasses of wine in a single evening since 1982.
It’s not that I was deliberately or medically off the sauce all that time, but that 20+ years of pregnancies [...]

dating overload

Maybe it’s because by tomorrow evening I’ll have had seven first-dates within three weeks, and a cancelled date with an eighth man, and a turned-down baseball-game date with a ninth man, and a turned-down coffee date with a tenth man, and a million dating-’interview’ phone calls in that same period, that I’m feeling blegh (a [...]

my corporation man

This was Thursday evening’s date, the man with the same name as x. I named him Ron in an earlier post, but I’m going to rename him — actually I don’t need to give him a name, because I doubt if he’ll make another appearance in my life or in this blog.
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an interview with mimi: 2 recent first-dates

Okay, so let’s compare my two most recent dates, both first-dates.
Alas for me I’ve only had one second-date in 2007, the dinner at Dan’s blogged on 18 April as ‘dinner at his house, 3: jeanne-marie everywhere, or, hold the anchovies, s’il te plait.’ I’ve turned down or discouraged 3 first-dates since 2007; [...]