#NerdsUnite: I can haz offline dates? Is this how normal people meet each other?

Mar 28

I just got one of the greatest emails ever, and had to share ...

I 86ed the part where he starts telling me about himself to hide his privacy - but fuck yeah! What an UNBELIEVABLY well written email. For reals ... well ... well ... done.

I don't know what I'm doing dating wise, I just know that everything I am currently doing is not working. I've dated half of Los Angeles in the last two years, and I'm still single. Clearly there is something wrong here.

I'm honestly at a pretty funky place in my life. The site is getting popular enough that it is effecting me in my daily life (something that hasn't happened before). It's the greatest thing ever, obviously watching something that you've loved and spent 17 hours a day every day doing for 2.5 years - but this site was also a social prop for me. It never mattered if I had a good or bad date because any date was at least content to write about. I learned a LOT in the last two years, but what I learned the most is the fact that I have a calling inside helping guys in the field get chicks. When I was at the Neil Strauss event last summer, it just struck me, like knowing to start this website struck me. I never know what I am doing while I am doing it, but this I know is part of my calling and something I HAVE to do. I'll come up with better terminology for marketing and branding purposes on not calling it a "mock date," but I know this is in my heart, and this is in my soul - and it is greater than me, and something I must do. The feedback I know will be invaluable for the community, and I already have 7 dates lined up over the next few nights. I'm very. very. very. committed to doing this.

As far as my personal life goes, I don't know how people go out and meet each other, but I'll figure it out. I need to not just be the chick on the monitor to dudes I date, so maybe this whole offline dating thing will be a healthy dose of reality and negate the need for the social prop.

Again, I don't really know what I'm doing, I just know what I HAVE been doing is still resulting in me being single - and I'm not okay with that.

I need to be less of @JenFriel and more of Jen Friel. I know who one is ... still need to discover the other.

But yeah! I'd be happy to go out with you if you find me at a bar, but I can't accept this date otherwise. Less chick on the monitor, more chick IRL. =) Hope you understand, and I hope everyone else stays tuned because I'll have my first post up tomorrow about my first victim, cough cough, I mean mock date.

It'll be fun! I'm SO FREAKING EXCITED to learn from you guys and hear what some of your dating dilemmas are.

Here's to the night ... this is going to get good ...