Bachelor #13 and another lesson learned

It's about 5:30am and I didn't really have the intention of posting this blog yet. However, I woke up to use the bathroom and found that snow was falling outside my window. I figured this was the perfect time to sit down, enjoy the peacful moment and write.

I met Bachelor#13 on OkCupid and we exchanged a few e-mails. He seemed like a decent guy so I suggested we meet for a drink. I forgot that I had actually purchased tickets for a Dive Bars of Chicago History Pub Crawl (more on this in another blog) on that date so rather than cancel my plans with him I just invited him to join me. This was a risky move because I had just commited myself to a good 3 to 4 hours with this guy and usually I like to have the easy escape plan that just a drink affords me.

I meet Bachelor#13 at the museum and we fall into conversation. He is not ugly, but I am really not attracted to him from the start and this is a big problem for me. He's a little bit bigger guy, which is okay by me, but he has a goatee (not a fan of facial hair) and talks like a full on Superfan. He's born and raised in Chicago so that makes sense. What really bothers me is that he reminds me of someone I work with. Someone who I am not physically attracted to in anyway and this alone is a strike against him.

We hit our dive bars and have some good conversation. He is easy to talk to to and we do have a lot in common. He comes across as very working class, but it turns out that he has a PHD, did his undergrad at NYU and Masters and PHD at UIC. So clearly this isn't a dum-dum I'm dealing with. However he spends a good 10 minutes riping on art and film majors and this makes me slightly uncomfortable. By the end of the night I can tell that he's in to me way more than I am into him. He even invites me to his birthday party a few weeks down the line. We have an awkward goodbye at the end of the night where I hurry into a cab and thank him for a nice night. I really hope he doesn't call me because I don't think I want to see him again, but I don't want to be the girl who just drops off the face of the earth either.

So the moral of this date is that I really should just stick to a drink and save the fun stuff for the even numbered Bachelors that I really like.