Pardon my not beating about the bush (ahem), but I need to get laid.
I require a man. A man good-looking by my standards, who will be amusing company for an evening, who will be an exciting and satisfying bedfellow, and who will be perfectly happy to leave it at that. A fuck-buddy situation is fine, but just actually finding one is the first objective.
I’m bored. As, I’m sure, are you. While this year and hence this blog hasn’t been a complete desert, I freely admit I need to get off my arse and make things happen. Lately, my social life and plans for Paris have eclipsed my mission to work my way through the frogs of London, but now I’m very much feeling the need to pull my finger out.
Oh dear. The double entendres speak for themselves.
Well then, what to do? My workmate A, (who is battling his woeful way through an equally dry spell) and I were discussing our mutual frustration at lunch today, and he suggested I try looking around at my gym.
Well, it’s certainly do-able. Plenty of men go to my gym, after all, but there are two fairly significant drawbacks.
Firstly, quite a lot of men who work in my office go to that gym, and I’m not sure how keen I am to become known as the girl who weirdly and inexplicably smiles at everyone (and is therefore probably extremely desperate). The other problem is that, unlike a lot of the girls at my gym, who first of all have slightly better attire than whatever baggy ensemble I’ve thrown on, I do not breeze through my exercise sessions with a sexy flush, nary but a light mist of sweat on my glowing brow and a total absence of weird perspiration patches. In fact, I look like such a huffing, red, sweat-drenched nightmare at the gym, that to try and woo a member of the opposite sex seems to be at best, touchingly futile, at worst, a gesture of extreme self-mocking.
Another possible lead might be this cute little fruit and veg market I go to before work sometimes, and which, at least on Fridays and Saturdays, has THE hottest man working there. We had quite a giggle-filled exchange a few weeks ago, in which he was apologetically half-asleep and almost charged me £421 for six stalks of rhubarb and an onion (he pressed the wrong button on the till, I believe). I’ve been back a couple of times since, but it’s always busy. However, in the interests of being proactive, I shall go this week, and attempt to muster actual words again. I’ve already bought more strawberries than Wimbledon does in June and July.
However, the gym is the only plan I’ve got tonight (well, that and the supermarket), so I shall cast my eye over promising-looking specimens there (and actually MAKE EYE CONTACT instead of wimping out). Seriously, something will have to be done. The only naked body I’ve been in proximity to recently is that of the woman who was getting changed next to me after my gym session yesterday, and I found myself even eyeing her up.
Seriously.
PS: In the meantime, if you have any suggestions about where to meet men, I'd love to hear your comments!
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
désolé
(it’s French, it means ‘sorry’, and expect to hear a lot more annoying stuff like that from me for a while).
My darlings, I must apologise for leaving you unattended for so long. It’s neither because I have given up this whole dating lark and got me to a nunnery, or that I and some gorgeous specimen have only just emerged from betwixt the sheets (more's the pity). It’s merely because for the last few weeks, I have been having ideas...
...which translated into more ideas.
...which translated into plans.
...which translated into the rather exciting fact that I’M GOING TO PARIS!!
I’m going for a month this summer and I’m so ludicrously excited, I’ve had to limit myself to emitting only one high-pitched squeak a day (you should have heard the squeak-frenzy I emitted when I was permitted the time off work – time off work I had to beg for and write a thesis detailing why I should be allowed to have it, but I bitterly digress).
The plan is thus:
In the mornings, I shall be studying an intensive course in French. I studied French for a few years at school, as did we all, then as soon as we chose our GCSE subjects, I ditched it for German. Not the most spiffing idea, seeing as the net result of that was ending up with a particularly frog-like boyfriend (I met him in my A-Level class), and a piddling, barely-scraped qualification in a language I can hardly speak any more. Not to mention I’ve been to Germany and put said qualification to use only once in the last decade. So all things considered, I really should have stuck with French. At the moment, I’m trying to brush up a little at home with a textbook, and it’s fairly painless so far. Then again, I haven’t tried to conjugate many verbs yet.
In the afternoons, I shall grab my new camera, my guidebook, and bum around the city. I shall visit museums, galleries, cafes, shops, wander around pretty little streets, buy yummy foods to take home, take photographs, ride bikes along the Seine, sunbathe in the parks, watch outdoor movies, and generally pretend I’m in a film. Oh, and of course, in the name of gathering useable material for this blog, meet an array of delectable Frenchmen (or at least try to...)
And in the evenings? I shall retire back to the apartment I’m renting, for dinner, drinks, and stimulating conversation with my temporary flatmate – a 27-year-old, blue-eyed, six-packed, cute-as-a-button Frenchman.
Whoops. That’s my high-pitched squeak allowance used up for the day.
My darlings, I must apologise for leaving you unattended for so long. It’s neither because I have given up this whole dating lark and got me to a nunnery, or that I and some gorgeous specimen have only just emerged from betwixt the sheets (more's the pity). It’s merely because for the last few weeks, I have been having ideas...
...which translated into more ideas.
...which translated into plans.
...which translated into the rather exciting fact that I’M GOING TO PARIS!!
I’m going for a month this summer and I’m so ludicrously excited, I’ve had to limit myself to emitting only one high-pitched squeak a day (you should have heard the squeak-frenzy I emitted when I was permitted the time off work – time off work I had to beg for and write a thesis detailing why I should be allowed to have it, but I bitterly digress).
The plan is thus:
In the mornings, I shall be studying an intensive course in French. I studied French for a few years at school, as did we all, then as soon as we chose our GCSE subjects, I ditched it for German. Not the most spiffing idea, seeing as the net result of that was ending up with a particularly frog-like boyfriend (I met him in my A-Level class), and a piddling, barely-scraped qualification in a language I can hardly speak any more. Not to mention I’ve been to Germany and put said qualification to use only once in the last decade. So all things considered, I really should have stuck with French. At the moment, I’m trying to brush up a little at home with a textbook, and it’s fairly painless so far. Then again, I haven’t tried to conjugate many verbs yet.
In the afternoons, I shall grab my new camera, my guidebook, and bum around the city. I shall visit museums, galleries, cafes, shops, wander around pretty little streets, buy yummy foods to take home, take photographs, ride bikes along the Seine, sunbathe in the parks, watch outdoor movies, and generally pretend I’m in a film. Oh, and of course, in the name of gathering useable material for this blog, meet an array of delectable Frenchmen (or at least try to...)
And in the evenings? I shall retire back to the apartment I’m renting, for dinner, drinks, and stimulating conversation with my temporary flatmate – a 27-year-old, blue-eyed, six-packed, cute-as-a-button Frenchman.
Whoops. That’s my high-pitched squeak allowance used up for the day.
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