Robert

Two dates in one week, wow.

I met up with Rob for a quick drink at Hooley's before heading out to the NAC with a friend. Again, a great scenario in case the date is really painful. Hmmm...I may have to lie and always use this as my set up.

I was most excited to meet Rob out of all of my matches - I enjoyed reading his profile, he had some fun pictures, and his emails were witty. However, I have definitely learned from past experience that sometimes, as in this case, doesn't necessarily translate when meeting in person. One thing I was concerned about was that Rob's emails were scattered (and the guy works in computer security!)... I'd hear from him in 3 weeks, then in a few days, then in another 2 weeks. No consistency! And after we had finally semi-agreed on a date/time, I was still waiting for a final confirmation email before taking the plunge. I had to send him another email to confirm, and he replied to say he had been looking forward to it all week, and that he'd be the guy in the green shirt by the door. And sure enough, he was the first person I saw as I swung open the doors. He was wearing glasses which kind of threw me off because he wasn't wearing them in any of his photos. Also, none of his photos contained a full body shot, so I didn't really know what his body type would look like. He was quite thin (but again, hard to tell when someone is sitting down at a booth across from you).

Rob was pretty quiet (a soft speaker) and hella nerdy, but we talked about travel a lot as he was going to be taking a trip to Peru in the new year. I immediately knew that there wasn't really anything there... I started daydreaming about how I wanted to give him a makeover and how I could bust him out of his nerdy shell...maybe if he unbuttoned a few of his collared shirt buttons, he would loosen up. I always know it's a good date if the conversation flows nicely, I've laughed a lot and there are no awkward silences. Unfortunately, the opposite of this took place with Rob. At one point, he brought up how I had other plans that evening and it was the perfect escape route for me: "oh yeah, I should probably get the bill and get going".

He's 28, originally from Montreal, owns a condo, seems to have a good job, decent looking, etc, etc but not my type and there was no connection. The night wasn't completely lost - I headed next door to one of my fave new restaurants and had a delicious dinner by myself before meeting up with my friend to catch a great live performance!

I'm starting to think I'll take a bit of a break from all this dating stuff over the holidays in effort to (hopefully) feel refreshed in the new year! C'mon 2011.

In other news: I bumped into my ex, Mat, and his new gf last night when I was out for a late night dinner. I haven't seen him in almost 2 years! I was always quite impressed with myself that it was SO great never having bumped into him. Not only that, but then they also showed up at the bar I went to AFTER dinner! What are the chances? Ugh.