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" Coffee date Ha! In my last post I talked about how I didn&amp;#039;t like coffee dates? Well, guess what I&amp;#039;m doing tonight, at 8:30pm!! (which is a weird time for coffee). Anyway, we&amp;#039;re going to a coffee shop, and I&amp;#039;m not too excited about this date, mainly because of this guy&amp;#039;s extensive use of emoticons (yes, I&amp;#039;m an emoticon snob), and that, besides talking about running, I&amp;#039;m not really sure how much else we have in common. Prior to that date, though, I&amp;#039;m meeting Andi, who is one of my best, wisest friends from college who can put ANYTHING in perspective. She and I used to be in psychology classes together and really bonded when we went on a winter break with our other friend to\u2014wait for it\u2014Kansas our senior year. It was during a snowstorm, and through a week of lots of hot chocolate, trivial pursuit, scrabble, and Oprah, we became great friends, even though we don&amp;#039;t see each other all the time. So I&amp;#039;m hoping a drink with her will put me in the sparkly mindset I&amp;#039;ve been lacking recently from my overall lack of sparkliness. Honestly, just to give you an idea, here&amp;#039;s this single girls daily routine.  6am. Wake up and head to gym. 6:30am: Notice the guy next to me in Spin class. Cute but way too sweaty. Augh, how have my standards gotten so ridiculously arbitrary?  7:15am: Stair master. Notice the guy next to me is the StairMaster guy I hate. He pulls his stair master AWAY from the wall, and is always, really, really loud. Glare at him. Already not starting the day in a good mood.  8am: Shower. Still have time before getting ready for work. Realize my online dating profile is waaaay out of date (I know longer love bopping around to 80&amp;#039;s tunes as much as I did when I signed up 3 years ago) . Update it. Try to find one cute picture of me that isn&amp;#039;t of me holding a drink at a party or bar. 10am\u20146pm: work. Get a cute, flirty e-mail from one of my online suitors. &amp;quot;I have a boyfriend!&amp;quot; I tell one of my coworkers. &amp;quot;No you don&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Be careful using that word.&amp;quot; I knooooooow. That&amp;#039;s one of my problems\u2014getting overly enthusastic. Obviously, I know he&amp;#039;s not my boyfriend from a few back and forth e-mails, but still, even using that word, even when you&amp;#039;re trying to be funny does up the ante for expectations in a bad way.  6:30: dinner with a friend. Get into conversation about what the text messages I received from Steve the day before mean. Realize I&amp;#039;m even bored by this conversation. Remember: no more Steve. Repeat. (which is easier said than done because on our date a few weeks ago I may have lied to him and told him I was relocating to LA. I wish that was an exaggeration) 9pm: gym again. See cute trainer, who flirts with me really just because he wants me to sign up for training sessions. Take a total body class with my favorite instructor, who calls chest presses &amp;quot;Get It Off Your Chest&amp;quot; time and encourages bitching. He comes over, asks me if there&amp;#039;s anything I want to complain about, and I say no. He says I look cute. I am sweaty and wearing workout pants and not cute, but it&amp;#039;s nice to hear.  10pm: shower. Answer e-mails. Try to get work done. Turn to the stack of magazines I&amp;#039;ve received today and begin flipping through. Realize I need to stop when I spend a little too much time on the score a boyfriend! feature in one of the teen magazines I subscribe to just so I can see what other editors/writers are doing. Remind myself that I am not a high-schooler. Wash and repeat. I told you, no-Manolo lifestyle! But it&amp;#039;s spring, it&amp;#039;s time to try new things, shake things up . . . who knows, maybe even smile at Stairmaster dude! Also, just realized in preperation for date night tonight . . . I am wearing a bra with green straps under a white sweater. Why??? Let&amp;#039;s hope he finds this je-ne-sais-quoi cute instead of I-didn&amp;#039;t-think-about-my-outfit embarrassing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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