June 21, 2006
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NICK CRAWFORD SIGNS UP FOR A DATING SERVICE
I have never used a dating service, and for the longest time, I thought online dating services like Yahoo! Personals were strictly for posting phoney profiles or posting friends of yours as a gag. Then maybe a month ago, someone told me that they met their current longtime boyfriend through Yahoo!. Humph. This kinda screwed with my preconceived notions.
Having never used a dating service, it made me wonder if all the guys really do have modeling careers. Or if all the girls really are blonde and fabulously hot with very nice, well, non-existent outfits for every day of the week. I’m beginning to think that it probably could be an ideal way to land the finest catch of a lifetime and really make Lovespring International the Last Dating Service You Will Ever Use.
Never having used a dating service, I wonder if this is true. Oh wait. I lie. I DID sign up for a dating service! David made me do it back in the UWM computer lab when his membership expired, and he talked several of us into signing up so that he’d get five free days. That guy… I was almost able to say that I had never used a dating service.
Having used a dating service, I did find fabulously hot girls. But they never responded. Perhaps their memberships had expired or perhaps my e-message was buried under a pile of messages that David had already sent them. (He has a way of finding and messaging people [read: hotties] with his gobs of injured time.)
I have used a dating service, and for the longest time, I was ashamed of it. I still am. But I did meet a cool person there and rediscovered old friends through her, one of whom I saw at church again for the first time in a while. It’s not such a weird thing as it gains in popularity (kinda like blogging before it was cool [Tracy...]).
Having met my girlfriend online, I’m kinda kosher with these knew kways of kmeeting kpeople (silent k’s for kalliteration).
Never having posted a picture on this site before… hehe…
(1) Tweaked the color, of course. But Jojo was actually there, looking out at Sam Neill‘s house.
(2) Lovely!
(3) To go, you just ran off a platform on the side of the mountain and paraglided all the way down over the river.
(4) Try to Photoshop THAT.
(5) The moon was competing on the other side of the sky.
(6) Try to Photoshop THAT.
(7) Try to smoke that! Haha, only in New Zealand.
(8) Try to Photoshop THAT. I think I made this shot by snapping the pic with a flash then flopping it over backwards to catch all the lights in the room. Turned out better than I could have possibly imagined!
Comments (25)
what about esther?
I mean the dating service thing?
posts like these are why i one you
…where do i start?
tracy’s website doesn’t have the www. just so you know
i’m helping you fix a link here! it’s just http://everymoment.org. and she doesn’t like to capitalize her name 
and if you want her to read this entry that includes her, you probably have to go leave a comment on her xanga. (she’s….special.)
love the silent k’s for alliteration ~ especially since i believe there’s a similar sound in my name. right? isn’t there?
and i love your pictures. i believe your challenge to “photoshop that” was directed toward me, or at least i’d like to think so (since it’s all about me). so is “try smoking that”, i think, but i can’t read the label, so i don’t get the joke. and of course, i LOVE the last picture
i think i still haven’t quite got the terminology down, so “extended exposure” on a digital camera might not be the right thing to say, but that’s what you did, anyway. i haven’t used that in a while…hmmm….*ponders next photo shoot*
speaking of cameras, i have a question. so you know my camera is getting up there in age, and i feel like my pictures are more and more grainy every time i look at them. there’s a few possibilities here: 1) the more i use tracy’s camera, with it’s 5.something megapixels, the more grainy my photos look in comparison. 2) because i’ve been hanging out with tracy and her constant “portrait” setting, and no flash, that’s what i use on my camera most of the time ~ which makes for grainier pictures. 3) my camera is getting old…can digital cameras deterioriate over time? or 4) i’ve gone completely off the deep end. whaddya think?
is this a record for longest comment ever? should i have just emailed you??
Peter Jackson…making addicting movies and addicting cigarettes. Gotta respect that.
I didn’t even NOTICE the opening phrases! Nice work, my friend ~ ya pulled one over on the English major…you win. Gotta go find an old entry to get you some extra e-props.
nick, thanks so much for the encouragement, truly. it’s hard not to feel alone, but it’s good to know you aren’t..
i signed up for a dating service once.. i don’t want to scare you, but i did have one unpleasant experience. but the other guys were pretty nice.
YES!!!!!!!! SCORE!!!!!! TOP 3!!!!!!! i’ve been trying for so LONG! i don’t even have a computer at home!! congrats on making it to #1!!!!!!! hahahahaha
yes! like rodents on a spring morning. (they make me smile)
[we're talking about my comment]
=)
woah, no freaking way! what a small world, right?
whoa, 1st on theologians cafe? you’ve made it to the top, my friend.
(this is me, continuing to NOT comment on actual entry content. you wanna talk about how many times you’ve done this to me….
<3 )
ya.. but you get used to them pretty quickly. so much better than glasses in my opinion. I will always remember the day chris’s fell out cuz he was crying. ha sorry just random memory for ya.
Beautiful pics, must have been a great time ^_^
For the record the GUYS you usually meet are not as TALL as they say they are, as NICE as they claim to be, and well, they’re almost all losers… so I would be ashamed to admit that I had been one if I was a guy, too.
Then again, I’m pretty much a LOSER by association of every LOSER I met through those stupid things.
I met my soul mate in 2002 at Church. I met my PSYCHO ex through an online thing; some really BORING dates through online things… and did I mention the STALKERS usually start as online acquaintances; ONLINE stalkers are just as freaky as the real life ones… SOMETIMES.
So that’s what I have to say about that!
wow…there is alot going on in this post…..lets see, cool pictures….. hmm, the jury is out for me on the dating servies…i’ve only heard good things. A frined and I made a pact that if we didn’t have A,1,singular date by the end of the summer we were gonna force our selves to sign up for one… really i think its something to give us motivation to be proactive about meeting people.
love the kalliteration!
i suppose my footprints from Arizona now stick out like a sore thumb
hey! didn’t you get a painting, or something? you should blog about that
The Atlantic had a huge cover article on the phenomenon of online dating. It’s quite mainstream now. And I have a seminary chum who actually does look like a model who met her current squeeze through Yahoo Personals.
i must say, i’m absolutely thrilled by all this commenting. perhaps you miss me.
well, the level of tastiness of the nutella is in the mouth of the beholder, i think (that’s the most passive sentence ever)…but having never tested New Zealand Nutella, i can’t give you a definitive answer. of course, it’s NATIVE to Germany, so i suspect it’s best there. of all the countries i’ve tasted nutella in (which have been five or six, i think) Germany’s is the best.
boo-ya.
Have I ever told you that you’re too much? Because truly you are. Too funny too.
hey, you could set up an online dating account for me?
Since i would need someone who knows how to photoshop nothing minutely attactive into “model quality”….
plus, I’m terrified of those sites, so you can date vicariously through me online. Deal? deal…
never used on line dating…for reals… i use catalogs…male order…
nice to meet you as well.
the lollerskates thing made me laugh out loud
HI!!!! from a year later….
hey, so, see you in like a week-ish??