Bad Blogger!

I haven't posted anything here in ages, and for that I'm a bit ashamed. The purpose of this blog is to record the trials and tribulations of dating, and I do have some updates to talk about.

There was a person I started seeing in April or so of last year, and we had this on-again, off-again kind of thing, but it never really had the chance to develop into something resembling a relationship. One big problem was the fact we rarely saw each other. I know people make long-distance relationships work, but of course this wasn't a long-distance relationship, yet we saw each other maybe once a month.

What would happen was, we'd stay in contact, get together, and then something would happen (like her seeing someone else) and then losing contact. It wasn't a great situation to begin with, but for some reason I felt compelled to attempt to keep things going. In the end, though, it was simply a matter of being a bad match.

During the off-again parts I continued in my efforts to meet someone via Craigslist (since I'm too poor to afford a real dating site) with the usual results: communicate via e-mail or text; finally meet up; and then never hear from that person again.

Back in October I started e-mailing another Craigslist contact, and I'm happy to say things are going well. She's closer to my age and we see each other every week or so; we even went to Las Vegas and managed not to kill each other, which is always a good sign.

As far as my professional life goes, on December 14th of 2010 I was let go of my horrible, horrible job, which frankly was quite the relief. I'm now actively pursuing freelance and regular writing gigs, so hopefully something will turn up soon. I'm usually a very cautiously optimistic person, but it seems 2011 might actually be a good year. Certainly better than 2010 so far.