Essay Grade B-

The Personality Twin is maybe not going to be the ideal match for me after all. Having had a little bit of back and forth with him via email, this Saturday morning I received a reply that was literally the length of two A4 pages of normal type. I opened the email as I was trying to run out the door, and it quickly became apparent that it was going to take a fair while to wade through the whole thing.

            From the opening line, I think you will understand what I mean:

“Thank goodness it’s the weekend! I hope your disaster of a week turns into a storm in a teacup or a damp squib…“

I can only say it was a good thing that I had a hour long train journey ahead of me, and I’d forgotten my book. Who needs Wuthering Heights for company when you’ve got dating emails to keep you entertained?

            It was most definitely the lengthiest email I have ever received from a boy (and I was seeing a guy that lived on the other side of the world for a while). It was actually more of an essay, one that if I had to grade I would probably give a B-. It was witty and fairly interesting, but he loses points for that fact that I had to concentrate so much on reading it.

            I think that, once I have built up the energy to pen and reply, I’m still going to stick with this one and see how it goes. It turns out that his choir has a concert at St Martin in the Fields in a few weeks, and he mentioned that if I was in the area, I ought to stop by.

Is it wrong that I really, really want to go, even if I don’t necessarily want to meet him? I can’t help but think that this would be the perfect opportunity to get a glimpse of him in real life without having to be in an awful face-to-face date environment. This way, if he’s nothing like the pictures, I can walk away and not even have had to spend the cost of a drink and a night of forced politeness, plus I get a pleasant night of classical music for my troubles.