"Timeless. Hilarious. And mean. It's great!" -- E. Jean Carroll, ELLE Magazine
"... a winning mix of [Sex and the City's] Carrie Bradshaw and David Sedaris." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
October 1, 2003
Hi. My name is Amy. Since I became a writer, whether I've worked for a dot-com funded by billionaires or an established business presence, you can often find me with tears in my eyes and a cardboard box in my arms. I've been laid off several times, of course through no fault of my own, and it's the lucky city of Seattle that gets to swagger around boasting to its locker-room pals that it has me every day and every night.
One year ago today I balanced my checkbook and realized that I hadn't had a nice income in quite a long time. I was an entertainment reviewer and before that a music journalist, but really, how many ways can you describe the interior of a fish restaurant? How many bands can you critique before you want to pull your hair out strand by strand? (My personal answer to that is 1,000, by the way.) When I was laid off by the gargantuan media corporation I was writing for, I thought it would be the perfect time to switch to writing about one of my favorite causes: dating. In addition to noticing my own unemployment, I also observed that there was no answer when I shared the news of my new career tack with my boyfriend, as I didn't have one.
Then I got what seemed like a good idea at the time: Why don't I look for a boyfriend and document it on the Internet! Stories about a person's descent into madness are always popular and people will probably want to send me money.
DatingAmy.com is the result -- my literal labor of love. I'm going on 50 dates and I'm taking you with me… but only if you promise not to whine "Are we there yet?"
Oh, one more thing. Dating Amy isn't supposed to be my name. It's supposed to be like: "Hmmm. I wonder how great and/or awful it would be to be dating Amy. It's especially disturbing because people from my real life have started calling me Dating Amy like I'm a superhero or a cartoon or something.
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