A Little Chemistry Experiment

So, for my 1/3 contribution to this "social experiment"/competition, I am subscribing to the site chemistry.com. The process thus far has been ... interesting. The sign-up begins with a barrage of questions about your likes, dislikes, personality, pretty much everything about you ... which ends in picking a color for your personality, BUT you only have 4 options, wtf?? If I had to give myself a color, it would be something in the red-pink spectrum, something bright and obnoxious. After the multiple choice fun comes the "describe yourself" section. Let me tell you, I sat there for a solid hour trying to pick out just the right thing to say, trying to sell myself essentially. So overall, I spent at least 3 hours just getting started. That's more time than I have spent so far reviewing my "matches". With a lengthy, annoying process like that I'm surprised there are so many people on online dating sites. I mean, let's be serious, if I hadn't committed to this whole thing I would have thrown in the towel after 10 minutes of "How do you feel about cheese? A. I love it B. It's okay C. Meh, it's cheese D. I effing hate it."

So, 3 hours and a mild headache later, I'm finally signed up and ready to start dating! Bring on the men, I can't wait to creep around and check out the profiles of every hot guy! ... Oh wait, little did I know you can't do that on this site ... you only get to see the profiles of people who the site matches you up with. Obviously I was a little bummed by this at first, but after seeing the variety of men I have been "matched" with, I can't say that I have been disappointed. I'd say out of every new batch of 10 matches, roughly 4 catch my eye. Not bad seeing as I get new matches daily.

The first batch of matches was pretty exciting, I'm not gonna lie ... there were some super cute guys who didn't sound like huge tools. Of course there were some I had to reject. I'm still trying to figure that one out ... So there's the "decide later" option, which I'm guessing is the area for rejects? But the thing is, the profile doesn't go away if you choose to "decide later". It's like, no, I don't want to decide later, I already decided and my answer is no thanks, don't save this profile with a little clock next to the name, I want it gone so I can get more matches! Anyway, annoying. I still have to figure it out. But for the profiles you want to learn more about, there's that option too ... but then you're required to send them "relationship essentials", which is basically a list of things like "he's good at saving money" or "he likes pets" and you indicate if it's not really important or very important. So you and the guy exchange your rankings and, if all goes well, the next step is selecting 6 questions for him to answer. The questions are dumb for the most part, like, what do I care about the weird foods your relatives eat? Yes, that is actually one of the questions that can be sent. So you exchange questions and get to read each others answers. AND THEN, if you still "like" them, comes the email option. That's where I am right now with 8 of my "matches". Not gonna lie, I have no idea what to say without coming off as incredibly awkward and weird. I'm probably going to lose sleep at night, laying in bed with my computer open, trying to compose a normal sounding email to a complete stranger. Sounds strange, right? I certainly think it does.

Well, I'm out of updates, now that I have probably put to sleep anyone reading this. I'm off to class and to think of normal, non-weird/creepy things to email 8 strangers ....