Blating*

In the meantime, I had been reading this guy's blog. I had started reading probably sometime in March, although I can't be certain exactly when. He lived in Philadelphia and was a friend of my brother. He had happened upon my blog and started reading and told my brother I seemed interesting and he'd like to meet me sometime when I was in town. My brother then sent me the guy's blog address and I started reading and I loved what I read. He was such a good writer. He expressed himself so well. He had feelings. He talked about his feelings. He eloquently talked about his feelings. Wow. How freaking great is that?!

Eventually I started commenting on his blog and he started commenting back. I have since been accused of flirting with him via the blog, which seems sorta bad since I was technically dating the coffee dude, but it seemed innocent enough. It was through blog comments. And he lived on the other side of the country. And it was fun, so… yeah. No big deal?
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After the break up with coffee dude, my life was kind of in turmoil, for lots of reasons. I was thinking of changing jobs and maybe moving. I had good friends who were getting married, which is really good, but it changes things and I wasn't thrilled about that. I finally decided I was going to quit my job and go to seminary. So I did. I quit and made plans to move and start school.

Oh, and the plane ticket to New York turned into a plane ticket to Philadelphia to visit my brother and sis-in-law just before I started school.

I posted on my blog that I would be in Philly soon because I wanted blog dude to read it and perhaps try to arrange a meeting.

Then blog dude posted on his blog about Frederick Buechner, a theologian that I had read (but only a little) and I decided I wanted to talk to him about it, but not through blog comments, so I asked my brother for his email address. And I emailed him.

That night, I got another word from God. He told me "October 5." Uh, wha…? What does that mean? Oh, crap. Maybe it means that I am going to go to seminary and meet "the guy" on October 5th? But I just emailed this other dude. And I kinda like him already. And he has expressed a little interest in me. (After all, he did a little flirting back.) And maybe this is just me being impatient and forcing things or making bad choices instead of waiting on God?

It sounds like not that big a deal, but I was really kind of freaking out.

*A word I made up. A combination of "blog" and "dating." A form of online dating that occurs exclusively through blogs.