I know, I know, I know. I disappeared again a little, didn’t I? You know what is helping me to post right now? The intense desire to procrastinate.

Big paper due on Tuesday. Also a final the same day. So no time like the present to post a blog entry right?

I have been… fabulous. Really, really great. The truth is that life and the stars seem and my persistence seem to all have finally aligned and now… things are great.

My boyfriend (yes, how strange is that? strange and awesome) is a good, good man. I am very lucky to know him and very, very proud to be his girlfriend. It is all wonderfully new, wonderfully overwhelming, wonderfully fun, and overall just beautiful. I am enjoying every minute of this new phase of life and excited to see what the next minute holds.

For those who want/don’t know “the story” we met online. I had signed up for match.com and the very weekend that I had decided to discontinue the service is the weekend that Dave showed up in my search. It didn’t take long at all for me to realize that he was very different, nor did it take long for me to turn off my subscription to match. I knew that as long as Dave was around I didn’t want to date anyone else. It has been… five weeks?… now and I am still just as blessed, just as excited, just as happy to know him.

A friend of mine signed up for match around about the same weekend that I met Dave and she has been sharing the excitement of her results and dates and conversations. And I am thrilled for her. But even more than that I am ECSTATIC, beyond words, to have that behind me. First dates… first dates suck. I was so tired of having the same conversation, answering the same questions over and over and over and over. I was tired of the time it took to email, phone, etc. before finally meeting and figuring out if a second date was worthwhile. Usually they were not. I never had an awful first date, and I believe I have my instincts to thank for that, but for an introvert especially the first date is more or less a nightmare. So I can’t even convey how great it feels to not have that ahead of me right now.

I know this isn’t a great, fascinating read for a post but this is as good as it gets tonight. There is still much paper to be written, much showering to be had, much wine to be drunk, much sleep to be attained. Here’s hoping!