AUTHOR: tbooty DATE: 7/31/2004 12:18:00 PM ----- BODY: so, i met river boy. before i go there, however, let me give you a little backstory.... apparently, once upon a time i signed up for a online "dating" thing. (like yahoo personals, match.com, etc.) this one was called platinum romance. it must not have made an impact or any kind of impression, as i didn't even remember that i had put a profile on there until i got an email saying that i had a message. ok. so i get this email and click on the link to take me to my mail. there is a message from river boy. he looks good in his picture. DAMN good. we email back and forth a couple times and then i don't hear from him for a while. no big deal. i figure he's dropped off the face of the earth. it's happened before. about 2 weeks later i get another email from him. cool. we email back and forth again, i give him my cell #. he doesn't call. no big deal. we're still emailing. this last week, i installed yahoo messenger on my work computer. (shh don't tell anyone!) not only does this allow me to im with people that rock (beth, j, darren, et al) it also allows me to listen to launch cast's all 80's all day with NO COMMERCIALS! cool. well, river boy also has yahoo messenger on his work computer, so this week we started im'ing at work. and having very interesting conversations. we tried to meet up last week, but it didn't work out. (if you recall, i had a small issue in meeting a total stranger at the river in a swimsuit. hence the "river boy" tag.) so, we've been talking all week on im and he called me on thursday. you know how if you "talk" to someone online and you feel that there might be a "connection" of sorts, but that if the voice of the other person doesn't match that it just doesn't work? no worries here. when he called me, the first thought thru my brain was "holy fuck. hearing that voice turned my knees to jelly" seriously folks. his voice is like audio sex. it's THAT good. DAYUM! so he called again yesterday, and we talked for a few minutes, because of course when you have NO work to do and then someone you really want to talk to calls you? everyone in the office suddenly needs you for something! oh well. we tried to meet thursday nite, and that didn't come to pass. we have plans to see each other tonight, but we ended up meeting up last night for a drink. he lives about 10 minutes from me so we went to this little hole in the wall bar and had a beer. he looked as good or better than his photo (which is damn sexy). and he wasn't an ass. which was nice. we talked for 2 1/2 hours about all kinds of things and we seem to get along quite well. so i've dipped my toe into the dating pool again. while it was fun and exciting and a good time was had by all, it wasn't nearly as scary as i remember it being. does this mean i'm a grown up now? --------