best first date ever.

Last night I had a first date with someone I met on an okcupid.com. I like this site because it has 100s of questions (you answer, then say how you would like your ideal mate to answer) and then 100s of fun quizzes, all of which are used to calculate a percentage matched. Okcupid said we were an 80% match. We traded messages on the site, then emails, then text messages, and decided to meet face to face.

I was so nervous (I havent really been part of the dating game, um, ever) but as soon as our eyes met, most of my nervousness disappeared. We went to a take out restaurant in North Berkeley, had some dessert. But we had to eat outside, and it was cold, so we went to another restaurant for a drink and ended up talking for two and a half hours (and looking up various things on our iPhones, so funny).

I won't say much about him here except that he definitely fits my "profile" (I'm sure my friends would agree!) We made each other laugh, he has excellent taste in books, and is very upbeat.

In the middle of the date, my boss sent me a Tweet: "gentleman?" (to which I had to reply yes). Afterwards, he walked me to my car, we hugged, and then there was that liminal moment where I was thinking "are we going to kiss?" as we were leaning toward each other. Um, yes! :)

I dropped him off at his place. We were both flustered. I couldn't stop smiling. It was very hard to drive away. Text messages flying back and forth on the way home (should have called, I'm so bad with the texting while driving). I had a difficult time going to sleep last night.

Woke up this morning and I'm still smiling. Now THAT was a good date.