wanna be starting something

or "you wanna be startin' somethin'" as our dear late MJ would say it....

so i think i definitely have an email crush on Yale from eharmony. yes, yes, i'm totally embarassed that i'm even considering this a possibility after all my whining and smack talk about the online personals site of doom.

we haven't talked on the phone yet or met in person, but his emails are increasingly adorable in a very cerebral "i'm trying to flirt with you but all i can really do is tell you that i think you're awesome" sort of way. i'm trying to withhold any judgement about whether or not i find him physically attractive until i see him in real life, since his profile photos all look very different. in some, totally cute. in others, totally not so much.... weird huh? i guess guys probably have fewer digital photos of themselves to choose from? that's what i'm going to assume anyhow.

he's in the process of packing up the last 7 years of his life and driving it home to chicago as i type, but he's managed to sneak in an email every day. some of them long and descriptive, some just short and "i'd love to write more, but i'm totally swamped".

and i confess that i find myself wondering on and off things like "maybe Yale would like to go with me to the Rodin exhibit at loyola when he gets in town" and "i wonder if polenta is vegan" (he's vegan....could be trouble. but he assures me that he would never expect someone to give up cheese just to be matchymatchy with him on that one).

hmmm.....

plus, i've had 2 other eharmony guys ask me if i'd like to meet them for coffee this week. both of them are cute, and i probably will in fact at least meet them. but in the back of my head i have this soft spot for Yale even though i have no idea when we will have a chance to hang out.

anyway. i'm still open to being set up. i'm not making any promises to any of these boys. but it is nice to be asked out. it's fabulously charming to get sweet and brainy emails from a boy who takes time for me in the midst of his move back to chi-town.

i just wish i were not so ridiculously overwhelmingly unbreathably busy. i decided that that ends this week. i am not accepting more than 2 invites this whole week, and one of them is reserved for hooooney. so boys, you can just cool your jets. i've gotta decompress or i'm gonna be no fun for anyone....