Paul is your average 21 undergrad. Like most people these days, he's using the web to meet women. This is his first experience with online dating.

Photo by John Walker.
Basically I was dating this girl. I met her on OKCupid. I joined because people had mentioned it was free and it was worthwhile -- the way they do their matches. I found this girl and things were going really well. We had a great first, second and third date. Things just took off. She's very attractive, a student at CalArts, where she's studying to be an opera singer -- which, by the way, means she gave fantastic head. She managed to get it all the way down there. It was fantastic.
I dated this girl. We hit it off and in a ludicrously short period of time, things got really serious and we were talking back and forth about how lucky we were to have found each other and so on. Fantastic, great. I go to Vegas for my birthday and when I got back, I had a lot of schoolwork to catch up on, and it didn't even occur to me that Valentine's Day was on Monday.
When we spoke on Sunday, when I got back, I indicated I wasn't sure if I'd be able to hang out on Monday because of the workload. Unknown to me, the girl was upset that I wasn't taking her out on Valentine's Day. She could have mentioned it in the conversation; if she had, I would have obviously taken her out. But she didn't, So Monday comes and goes and she's upset, which turns into some crazy nonsense about how she's just not ready for a relationship. Things got too serious too quickly and she realized she wasn't ready.











