Dec. 11, 2003: Holiday lull?

Yeah! It's only 8:45am, and I just received an email from Joe. He captioned it "Hey! Hey!" (in response to my caption of "Hey!") and wrote:

"Barb,I had a good time as well. It was refreshing to meet someone like you. I'll give you a call and see if we can set something up for next week.
Joe"

Being me, I'm of course wondering what "someone like you" means, but I'm pushing my focus away from that term and over to "refreshing." At the same time, I can't let myself get carried away over "promises" about calling and setting something up for next week, lest the lessons from Barry go ignored. It'd be great to see him again, though—I felt a charge running through me after the other night, and it's been quite a while. Cautiously optimistic.

My week has been hectic, with visits to a friend in the hospital, a client lunch, and, oh yeah, work. I need to squeeze in some shopping, both figuratively (on the dating sites) and literally (Christmas is only two weeks away!). I can't imagine this is a fertile time for starting anything online, as everyone enters holiday crunch time. Who has time to meet strangers? Or let me change that—who desirable has time to meet strangers?

And yet, I have three emails waiting in MM. One came from Alabama, and the other from a woman in Phoenix. Turns out she's promoting another site, www.seaoflove.com. Please, Amy—I'm busy enough with MM, Match, Yahoo, and EH. Thanks for thinking of me, though.

Hah! I opened the Alabama email for the hell of it, and it's one of those Nigerian scams. Barrister Williams Okukedi seeks my assistance (and my bank account) to access $8 million in proceeds, which he will of course split evenly with me. Probably makes more sense to try this scam in these sites than just making random email assaults.