How We Met (Peter's Perspective)

(Blame these guys)


In January 2014 having a serious relationship was the last thing on my mind.  I was a first year teacher, and knew that dating was a really, really bad idea.  I was working almost 70 hours a week and still falling behind.  On a personal level I was still getting over my mother's death a year before. So everyone - and I'm not underselling this here, everyone - told me that I needed to start having a personal life.  So in January I made two major decisions to that end.  I joined the New York City karaoke league, and okcupid on the same day.  I worked on my profile with my friends Devindra and Raquel, had them take pictures, and put up a profile.  I hated that profile.  I hate profiles.
Yet there I was with one.

My favorite television shows:
West Wing, Star Trek (not Enterprise because WTF), Batman TAS

My favorite movies:
Dark City, The Big Sleep, X-men, Avengers, etc

My favorite books
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Otherland Quadrillogy by Tad Williams

 The hardest questions?
What do you not want in a potential date:
Outside of not smoking around me (for medical and not moral reasons), and not thikning that cocaine is a hell of a drug, and not being a racist, I really didn't care.

And so I posted it and began to talk to people online.  To very little success.

That was until about a month in when I swiped right twice on my phone on this cute picture.  and she lived about a mile from me.  So I looked at her profile and she liked Dr. Who.  Now, while I like Dr. Who it is not one of my top ten shows.  Still I liked it well enough, and I asked this cute girl who her favorite Doctor was.  To me it was so inconsequential that I'd forgotten I'd asked it.  It was an icebreaker.
And then, a couple of hours later, she responded.  "Christopher Eccelson".  Mine was David Tennant.  And so it began.  We spoke online for about a month before we actually ever met in person.  Vedana just recently printed out our original conversations.  It was almost 24 pages.
Then came our first date.  But that's a whole other post.