One step forward....two steps back?

so, i jinxed myself by saying that I was trying to balance four guys at once. suddenly, i'm down to two. maybe...
here's the sitch--
airforcer-- never heard from again. i didn't contact him either though, so maybe that's my bad. maybe i'll give him a shout...

the debater--
Met the debater on Wednesday. He requested an earlier date, which means I met him straight from school. I purposely wore a cutesy new tank top and jeans to school and had a most fantastic curly hair day. We met at a local brew pub and had a few drinks while watching the Phillies. We had plenty of things to talk about, including comparing/contrasting our teaching experiences, as he teachers at THE private school in vegas. total sidenote, but total proof that something is effed up in education--- the debater relayed this story of how earlier in the school year, his students were debating which american city is the best to visit and they narrowed it down to Boston, LA and NY before asking him his opinion. He said he couldn't weigh in, since he had never been to NYC...months later, his bday rolls around and his students give him a card. inside the card, a STACK of CASH that his students donated to him so he could finally go to NY. so he is. in a few weeks, just taking off three days from school, cause that's also totally cool since he gives up so many weekends to debate. i asked if his school was hiring.
ANYWAY...things were going great, and it was getting later, and we were both growing hungry, so we decided to go next door to a fancy new brick oven pizza place (supposedly NY style....but it wasn't quite up to par). We had some more drinks, ate some mozzarella, ate some pizza, talked a ton more and I decided I could really be happy getting to know him. I wasn't head over heels by any means, but I could see myself spending time with him. the bill came, and I paid (since he got the earlier rounds of drinks) and he didn't put up much protest...
we walked out and he kinda walked me towards my car, but his was closer so we stopped, hugged and I told him to be in touch, especially before his trip to NYC so I could tell him all the sights to see/miss.
...
so the next day I gave him a friendly, "Thanks for meeting up with me, it was great to talk to you blahblahblah" text. and he didn't reply.
and 4 days later I have not heard a word.
WhattheEFF?
everything SEEMED to go wonderfully fine. sure not crazy in love perfect. but fine enough to AT LEAST REPLY to A TEXT MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck you debater. fuck you.

Then there's RadioGuy/dude/whatever i chose to call him...we're still texting almost daily and there's still been not even a word about the potential of getting together. granted, he's currently on vacation in San Diego and has been since last tuesday, so it's understandable, but i am truly hoping that when he gets back from his trip this tuesday he'll ask me out. or i might just grow a pair and ask him out myself. it's not exactly easy/ideal to get to know someone on text message and we've run out of things to talk about. so hopefully that will not be the case when and if we meet.

THEN there's Brooklyndude who i did not hear from all week until Friday. I was kinda bummed, then he called friday night and i missed his call, but his voicemail said something like, "oh it's 8:30, you're probably out for this night already...". Meanwhile...I missed his call cause I was in the bathroom washing my face and getting ready for bed. how cute, he thinks I have a life! I couldn't call him back just then and prove him wrong, so I just played phone tag with him on Saturday til he called me back earlier this evening. the poor guy's grandma passed away so he had to go to Florida all week, which is why I hadn't heard from him and is totally forgivable. We talked for a solid 45 minutes, often cutting each other off since we had so much to say. and we made tentative plans for Thursday or Friday which would be fabulous! not only was he great on the phone, he sent me another cute follow up text just minutes after we hung up apologizing for keeping me up too late. (not to worry i replied, i'm still up, writing in my blog about my massive crush on you even though we've never met. kidding.)
so that's that.
I haven't been browsing much on okcupid since i could barely handle the 4 i thought i was going to be juggling, but i'll have to get back into it.
i DO need to reply to this one new interest, who started the email with: "delete this if you aren't looking for a new friend" and ended with: "how do you feel about your nose? haha. no, it's cute. I like it. it gives you personality." in between were a handful of supposed deep questions about passions in life and blahblah bullshit, and although his pictures were cute, every one was him and a hot girl, and his rude attitude and the fact that he's now given me a complex about my nose mean he will surely be deleted.

so discoveries of the week-- no one is as he seems and there's an asshole behind every corner.
just need to hold hope that the two i've yet to meet will be at least close to what they seem...

hopefully next weekend will be much less lame, as these lame lonely weekends (hat trick- 3 in a row!) are getting to me.
time for bed.
g'night !!!!!!!

blowin' up

How do my sunday's always slip away from me?! I was feeling so productive today...i did my errands, got a little sun, made a yummo dinner, did a little laundry,...and wham, suddenly it's 10:20 and I haven't written in my blog yet, let alone finish what I'd hoped to have done for school tomorrow.
perhaps part of the reason why i'm suddenly so far behind on my "things i wanted done before bed on sunday" list is cause I just spent 57 minutes on the phone. with a new boy.
CRAZY. i'm suddenly talking to 4 different guys from okcupid, using 4 different types of communication-- in person!, texting, email and phone. i'm even facebook friends with one!! Such progress! (please hear my sarcasm).
I don't know how people date multiple people at once. i cannot keep them all straight! the only thing crazier than me talking to 4 different guys at once is that I actually see some potential in all 4. so let's add to the list of potential new boys:

The military man. no that sounds too tough. The Airforce. eh, i don't know. i'll come up with a good name for him:
So, I noticed the Airforcer on okcupid and immediately thought, "Oh he's way too cute for me" so I did nothing.Then one night he instant messaged me and we had a fabulous conversation. He's from New England, went to a small school in MI before joining the airforce and being stationed here in Vegas. We chatted a few nights before exchanging emails, then phone numbers.
It sounds like, like me, he's bored. He works funky hours so has random days off, but on Friday night he ended up getting finished early so he texted me and a few hours later, we met for a drink.
Like his profile, he's way too cute for me. Very tan and typical military hair and build. and dimples to die for. Our conversation was pretty good but didn't go anywhere crazy. mostly stuck on topics like sports, work and travel. but he was friendly and easy to talk to. It wasn't very flirty though, so i'm not sure if it was a date or just two new friends sharing a beer.
When the check came, he had his card out and I threw mine down too without discussion. Then as we left, he went one way and I went another without a hug, handshake or romantic makeout session. soooooooo, i'm thinking he wasn't feeling me any more than a friend...which is fine.
Saturday I texted him just to say thanks and to tell him to enjoy the concert he was going to and he replied, but I let the conversation die...
so i dunno. I'd definitely see him again, but I certainly won't throw myself at him.

then there's:
Radio Man. Radio Boy? Radio Guy. Radio Dude.
So there's this other guy, Radio Dude, so named cause he works in Radio, as the news reporter on an AM station. I actually listened to him the other day and he sounded....old. I think anyone on the radio reading the news would sound old though. His pictures on OK cupid are way cute. He's from St. Louis and we've been texting like crazy. I spent 45-minutes on the ellipitical Friday afternoon, texting him the whole time (I was so THAT girl, good thing the gym was empty). It really made my workout fly by! We have soooooo much in common and seem to fit each other's "want" list. the only problem thus far is we've been texting since friday and he's YET to ask me out. At one point I even said how much I wanted a drink. but nothing. We've since become facebook friends, and I was glad to see his facebook didn't reveal any big uh-ohs. sooo...if he doesn't ask me out soon, i'm going to have to be a big girl and do the asking myself...

Then...
Brooklyn Babe. Ok, just Brooklyn Dude.
This is the dude I just spent an hour on the phone with. I gave him my number in an email on Thursday and was bummed to have not heard from him all weekend, but this totally made up for it... I haven't even met him and I want him. He's been in Vegas for 7 years, but he's originally from, duh, Brooklyn. But he went to school in Philly, so has friends there, and even admits that he'd grown accustomed to Philly teams. (swoon). He's a beverage manager at the Venetian, which is awesome and likely means that I could have seen him when I was there a few weeks ago with mom. However, this job thing is a major con--he works overnight 2 nights a week (was actually heading in to work as I finished talking to him tonight. at 10pm), and swing the other 3 (4pm-12pm) with Wednesdays and Thursdays usually off. Could we have more opposite hours? I'm barely done my school day when he goes into his work day. but i guess that's something to worry about later.
After our conversation, he texted me and said how nice it was to talk, and that he'd be in touch to make a plan to get together. so i guess we'll figure something out. i hope.

The Debater. or, the Master Debater. no. Just the Debater:
Not to prejudge (cause i'd never do that here)...the Debater seems most...in my league. I don't know if that's putting me or him down more. Anyway, he's a teacher...of debate, at a private school here in Vegas. so he has rich kids. and he's actually in DC this weekend at the national championship with his team. We've been emailing the most intensely for a good week now and have set up a date for Wednesday-- trip to the farmer's market and then drinks.
That's all I got on him so far. more details as they come.

ok, i seriously have to get to bed. this did not turn into the clever or witty commentary I prefer it to be, but i have a feeling i'll have some mid-week reports this week...
something good has to come from one of these four, right???
we'll see.........

yawn is my life

yawn.
i can think of no less than 5 things I want to write about tonight, yet at 8:41 on a Monday evening, I can barely even keep my eyes open. yawn. my arms don't want my fingers to type. and my head does not want to organize my thoughts into coherent sentences. so this one might be a bit (more) random (than usual).
so in my world...
1. i have a stock broker. not only do i have a stock broker, but i also have a crush on my stock broker.
it all started like this. Investment guys from various firms come poach at schools in attempts to find teachers to set up accounts with and one day this tall dude stops in my room after school asking if i'd be interested. he was cute. i had no retirement fund set up, so i figured, what the heck. we met one day and set up an 457 (like a 403b which is like a 401k). he was so easy to talk to, and a complete cutie so when he asked to meet again to set up another account with money i've already earned, I jumped on him. or the chance to talk to him again. so he came back and we set things up and he officially became my stock broker. he told me having a stock broker would be excellent for my dating life. i could be out with a guy and i could say, "excuse me, my stock broker is calling" and guys would be turned on by this. i want to know what turns the stock broker on.
he came back the next day to get a check from me, and i dragged him down to my after school program and convinced him to come talk to our money management class SO hopefully i will see him again soon. not that it matters.... i sense he's a bit younger....i worry he's got a girl (facebook stalking revealed a pic of guy who could maybe be him with a cute blonde. maybe sister?)...and i'm sure it's not a good idea to date someone who manages my money.
thoughts?

2. in other news, i had the most boring weekend known to man. i really need to find a life. Friday night i feel asleep on the couch before 9. Saturday i was productive all day, then curled up and watched my favorite police/law dramas (Southland= favorite new show and Ben MacKenzie=HOTtie). Then I watched Tina Fey on SNL. I love her, and I love Liz Lemon, but i'm concerned that she always plays middle age woman who can't find a man (liz lemon, the teacher on mean girls whose name i don't know, baby mama? was she single in that one?) , when in reality she's happily (?) married with a child.
regardless, my sad, lonely existence stung a bit more when the "Brownie Husband" sketch came on. Click here to watch it. Basically it's a fake commercial for a product lonely working women can buy and eat at home. A man-size brownie companion. It's HYSTERICAL. and were it to exist in the real world, I'd want one.
it hit very close to home.

3. Regardless of my lonely weekend, I'm proud to say, at least in my opinion, that i'm not quite at "pathetic" yet. borderline desperate, perhaps. but not pathetic.
i've been browsing on okcupid quite extensively and there are some not so much my type guys on there.
take this guy who emailed me saturday night:

His email to me: do u want to chat with me? im bored : (

As bored as i might be on a saturday night, i was most definitely not sending sad faces to people on okcupid.



i might have to start sharing the other particularly bad profiles i come across on here. though i'd hate to think that would happen to me!!


ok cupid is going ok though...for every 100 dorks like above i've found, there's one half decent guy. Currently emailing with 3, but not sure where they will head....perhaps some dates are in my future...

hopefully, cause I can't take another weekend alone with my brownie husband and snl.
ok, time for bed.
love you! comment away!

kids say the darnedest things

is it summer yet? after a terribly relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable break, the last two days back have absolutely killed me and i am ready for a permanent break. (cause, yeah, summer's a break...ha) I would've updated sooner, but sunday night was spent on a plane, then in lines, then in rental cars, then finally home in bed after 12....monday night was spent gymming, returning rental cars, taxiing to car dealers, picking up marley jetta, then finally eating dinner and crashing.
so today, i can finally update. it's actually quite good that i had the two day delay in updating, as prior to tonight, i didn't have much material to write about. spring break was fantastic and i was able to see every person in ny that i wanted to see, but nothing boy related fun to report.
but the last two days have been quite humorous. or at least i'm laughing. cause if i didn't, i would cry...
let me start with the giant obvious fact that became especially apparent the last two days: Seventh graders will say whatever is on their minds, regardless of whether it is a nice thing to say. mine, have had an especially bad case of verbal diarrhea.
here's the story...
my co-teacher, who shares a class with me 4 periods of the day, became engaged over the break. yay for her. our third/fourth period class found this very exciting and shrieked when they heard. they asked her all the obvious questions, then the attention turned to me.
"miss, you're jealous, aren't you?"
"miss, why aren't you getting married?"
"miss, why don't you have a boyfriend?"
"miss, have you ever tried eharmony?"
"miss, how old are you?"
"miss, shouldn't you be married?"
"miss, can i nominate you for the show 'what not to wear'?" (apparently the way i dress is one reason why i am alone)
"miss, aren't you lonely?"

they didn't stop!!!! it was like being at a bad family function full of nosy aunts (were my aunts to be nosy, i imagine)
at one point, a small chorus of them started singing, "lonely....why am i so....lonely". how did so many of them even know the tune to this song?

i thought surely the excitement would die down today, but no....it, and the questions, were there again. we're focusing on persuasive writing this month and we did this group project where each group had to convince us, using the persuasive strategies we've taught them, that they deserve the prize we had to offer. most groups were awesome. most mentioned my lack of boy.
"ms g. if you don't give our group the prize, you will be alone for the rest of your life," one wrote.
"ms. g, if our group gets the prize, we'll make sure you find a man," tried another.

don't they realize i am perfectly lonely? i don't need a man...
i guess that's the 7th grade mindset that never quite goes away, huh....must. find. love.
sigh...
that's it for now. time to get lost...