Let the dating begin...

This blog is an attempt among a group of women living in or around NYC to get out and date. Dating is not easy, and it is especially difficult in New York. The premise is simple...7 dates must occur each week. Ideally, in relay-race style, a date should occur each day of the week, with one woman passing the metaphorical date-baton on to the next. However, in the interest of realism, we have begun with the premise that 7 dates total can occur per week.

The goals are multiple: get out, have fun, try to make even horrible dates interesting by blogging about them, derive moral support from fellow bloggers, meet new people, overcome fears and anxieties, and maybe even find someone *special*. In the hopes of making dating actually work, we are approaching dating as a project like any other...making it into a blog lends it a certain gravitas, or maybe it just will guilt one another into keeping the project going...

The rules

1. 7 dates must occur per week, ideally one each day

2. If you cannot go on a date this week, someone else must cover.

3. Expand your concept of dating to make this work. As teachers tell 4th-grade art classes: be creative!

4. Posts are anonymous.

5. No seriously identifiable information about a date can be posted. Nothing that would damage a person's reputation or hurt someone's feelings if it were read. Honesty is appropriate however, and sometimes, if someone is really a jerk, there's no reason not to let it all out. Let Common Sense and Decorum reign (a la Phantom Tollbooth).

6. If you meet someone and begin a relationship, and it is no longer appropriate for you to post here, you must find someone to take your place.

7. Typos are acceptable. This is blogging, not publishing.