Deal breaker?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Smart women fall for men who are caring and sensible. I, on the other hand, find myself fallen for Interview Guy -- a person who not only rejected me for a job, but who has now invited me to a weekend retreat with his COMPANY (Really? To see the other people that interviewed and didn't hire me? As if I would want to see more of those people!?)Plus, his apartment smells terrible.
Like seriously, terrible. Upon smelling his place, I silently questioned his dateability as I plopped down on the arm chair on the very opposite end of the room, despite his motion for me to sit with him on the couch.
He asked what was up, but given the options (1.sit next to his smelly self, 2. tell him he smells) I acted oblivious and pretended that 20ft is a perfectly normal distance for socializing with a dating prospect.
Moving forward
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Getting to know a new dating prospect means sometimes admitting to weaknesses. IntGuy has begun his confessions, which range from the fact that he is currently also seeing a 22 year-old blonde that he met on a ski lift (what, having a crush on a guy results in bad decisions on my part, ok?) and the fact the he sometimes tries too hard when he starts seeing new people.Me: So you try too hard... how so?
IG: Stuff like, pretending to be into things that they are into.
Me: Like what?
IG: For example with you, I might pretend I'm into drinking lots of alcohol.
I searched for signs of irony in his facial expression.
New note to self: try to appear sober, at least on weekdays.
Big Five Wins!
Thursday, June 09, 2011
"Whoa, what are you working on?"My roommate M leaned over my shoulder. "Laura in Cyberland! What is that!?"
I have been living with my current roommates for about 3 months -- as is common with new people, I'm laboriously attempting to project an image of normalcy and (even more ambitiously) sophistication.
Them finding the blog is not good for this goal.
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Most personality tests give sugar-coated results to their users. Like, ADD is repackaged as "adventurous" or socially awkward becomes "independent."
The Big Five test, unfortunately, does not do this. 'Unfortunate' because, despite scoring average on neutral characteristics like Extroversion, I score very high in Neuroticism.
So, after months of hiding my daily & arbitrary spaz sessions from my roommates, my blog betrays my sophisticated image, AND... I am now neurotically fretting about people discovering my neurotic fretting.
Big Five: 1
Laura: 0
