#loveirl

SS: We started dating about two months ago. For the first month, we didn’t see each other because we live on opposite coasts (New York City and San Francisco). CJ: We originally met about seven months ago when we worked together, ironically on a project about social media. At that time we kept it strictly professional except for SS’s flirtatious glances. SS: And CJ easily accepting any sorry excuse I might have had to loiter near her desk. CJ: What, should I have told you to go away? You were too cute. We stayed in touch as our professional paths parted, occasionally chatting during our respective work days.  And then, it finally hit me while I was on vacation. All of the sudden, I couldn’t get SS out of my mind. So I did what any modern day woman would, I told him so. On Gchat. While he was 30,000 feet over west Texas. SS: I’m pretty sure the older lady sitting next to me saw the whole thing. Needless to say I was caught happily off guard by the whole thing, but immediately admitted she hadn’t been any farther from my mind in our months apart than she had been when I was making up reasons to loiter near her desk, months before. CJ: We chatted the rest of his flight, and basically haven’t stopped since. So much that we both now have unlimited texting plans. SS: After a month of online dating, which I guess we got to sort of backwards, I decided I didn’t want to wait any longer and proposed a weekend together, in San Francisco, IRL. It was excellent. CJ:Some of that will remain off the record, for reasons of TMI. A bi-coastal relationship is not something we invented, its been done, many romantic movies over. But what’s different, wonderful and sometimes maddening, is how “connected” we are.   SS: We decided to start this blog as a way of sharing and chronicling our experience of building a relationship using, and sometimes in spite of, all the contrivances of modern life.

He's perfect for daydreaming about a long Sunday in bed to.