Monte

I’ve been anxious lately with the many changes happening in my life—exciting changes like my new career, moving into my own apartment, and dating again for the first time in three years.

I’m looking at my first apartment today during my lunch in a beautifully renovated building in downtown Dallas. I told my mother that I was looking for a place with hardwood floors, an updated kitchen, and plenty of natural light, to which she responded, “Wow. You really are gay.”

My ideal rent would be somewhere between $750 and $900 which I figure I can easily afford with my new salary. While I would like to spend the least amount of money possible, I’m also determined to live a life of comfort and not the life of a college student. I have a successful career and want to live as such.

Dating is interesting. At times it can feel as exciting as a kid in a candy shop; and then at other times it can be discouraging to realize that there really are few people who are genuinely interesting.

On Match.com, I didn’t realize that even though I’m a paying subscriber who can send emails to other members, other members must also pay in order to read the messages you send them: “Hmm. Is reading this guy’s email really worth paying the $17 a month?”

And then there’s Plenty of Fish. Unfortunately, the majority of those fish are druggies.

I have found one free dating site that is extremely nice called OkCupid. I’ve been finding a number of nice people there, and the site is gorgeous and actually fun and is as much of a social networking site as it is a dating site.

Good times are ahead.