I just lit up a cigarette and I am thinking….
I started to read a book, one of the “light reading category” ones, how I like to call them. I got it a magazine - “Cosmopolitan” - bought in a moment of huuuuuuuuge boredom and lazyness.
The book is indeed written in a very funny way - as the so called critics state on the first page. It is about a woman who at 34 y.o. b-day receives a present which consists in an online membership on a dating site, because her friends consider that she’s kinda old to be single.
But it starts with one of her meetings. She saw a guy’s profile online, she liked his pic and they decided to meet. When he sees her he pretends not to know her, at first. When she insists and proves to him it’s she the one who he was supposed to meet, he says: “Well, you look absolutely nothing like your photo. I was expecting someone much prettier and slimmer” :) Which of course made me laugh and think that so far no one I met in real, after meeting them online, ever told me that or gave me the impression that that might be what they think. But, then again, I am only 24 - nearly 25 - so I still have time left until something like that can happen.
In the few pages I read so far she explains how she has gotten herself into such an embarrasing situation. And - of course - I get to read the discussion they had at her b-day, regarding online meeting/ match-maker matter. Except the fact that the book is written in a pure London accent/ use of words and expressions which sometimes I have no clue what they mean :) - I understand pretty much of it. And it was interesting to read her battle against knowing people online - so this is what made think that much now.

Lately 99% of my friends and datings have happened with the “help” of CC and other sites/forums I visit on a regular basis. I talk with my friends online every day, even if it would be much easier to just phone them. Even the last “pick up” guy I met in a club in town asked for my e-mail, instead of my phone number! :O At this moment my life evolves around virtual meetings, talkings, feelings, drinks and so on. Except the few interactions I have with my house mates - mostly with A., she’s a darling girl! - and the even fewer I have with my ex. bf, I don’t quite have real human interaction. And I am not talking here about the one I have when I go and buy ciggs!
When I go out in the week ends, I usually go alone - so not many people start talking to me, except a few drunk guys, which I don’t fancy meeting anyway. It is well known that girls won’t come talking to a single girl in a club - except if they are lesby, but I doubt even then.
The colleagues I have in the English classes are all married, with kids and husbands and to be honest I think only one of them might be a girl that I can really talk with, but I don’t see myself being friends with any of them. We are way too different and they r not the type of girls to go out in a club, flirt, drink and have fun.
My job is online right now - so, again, no way of meeting other people in real, except if I agree to meet guys I know from CC - which isn’t gonna happen too soon or too often.

So, all I have left to do now, is to sit/work and wait until my Uni classes start and hope I will make some real life interaction then and there. But I won’t keep my hopes too high, because I rather be pleasantly impressed than disappointed.

Ohh, did I mention that even if I meet someone in real now, I am very uptight, very closed in my own safe shell and I don’t trust too much? Yeah, this might be another reason why for now all I have is virtual.
But, on the other hand, I tend to agree with the girl in the book: I like the old fashion way of meeting people - guys, girls, doesn’t matter - through friends, bumping in someone on the street, in the shop or in a club and so on.

No, I am not pittying myself, I was just thinking out loud.
How is it for you? Where do you meet your new friends?