About the daters ...
Your type ...
Date Lab: No electricity? Maybe she can lend him a spark.
Courtesy of the daters
Galen: Laughs at my jokes and contributes her own humor. I like the pleasantly crazy ones (not scary-crazy). Maybe quirky is a better word, but Zooey Deschanel isn’t what I have in mind ... the girl who designs her own “aerobics” activities based on her observations of nature, i.e., Kelp Dancing and Wave Aerobics. She’s athletic, likes camping, hiking, walks on the beach.
Ellen: Sarcastic, self-deprecating, kind, dark hair, big hands, taller than me.
Brag a little ...
Galen: I have a knack for making people laugh. I am a good listener and an excellent storyteller. I like getting outdoors and am somewhat athletic. I love going on trips that end up being adventures. Despite my cynical side, I am very optimistic. My mom says I’m intelligent.
Ellen: I’m really funny, and I’m a generous audience. I like a great dive bar and hanging out doing just about anything. Also, I’m pretty smart.
Interests to share ...
Galen: Camping is a must. I love to go whitewater kayaking; if they want to learn, or know how, awesome. If not, they have to be comfortable with me doing so. I also enjoy shorter hikes; never more than 10 miles. Friendly competition, whether it be soccer, bocce or any other sort of game.
Ellen: Running (but not obsessively), camping, hiking, rafting.
About the date ...
7:30 p.m., 701, Chinatown
Galen: I got there at 7, which I realize was a bit early, but they also had electricity and air conditioning. I had been without power for three and a half days [after the derecho]. I sat down at a table in the bar area and had a drink and read the Express.
Ellen:I was excited. I liked the fact that all I had to do was tell y’all something about myself, and somebody else just picked. I thought about taking a cab because it was so warm, but I thought, “No, no, I’ll just take the Metro,” which was kind of a mistake because the Metro during rush hour, during a heat wave … I felt less than stellar when I arrived. I think I got there around 7:20.
Galen: She was very cheerful when she came in, and you could notice the bubbly personality and [that she is] a little bit of an extrovert. She kind of had that glow to her. I’d read a bunch of Date Labs before hand. There’s that initial meeting, some people go for the handshake or the hug. She just stuck her hand right out and I went for the hand shake. My first impression was probably [that we’d be in] the friend zone. I think you have to be attracted to somebody if you want it to be more than just friends.
Ellen: The host knew exactly who I was. I said, “I’m just going to go to the bathroom,” you know, and kind of try and de-puddle. The host didn’t really stop me so I wandered back to the bathroom and spent some time, washed my hands, tried to cool off a little bit. I come back out and [the host] said, “Actually, your date is right here.” I had walked right by him. So we laughed about that.
Ellen: He’s boyishly good-looking. He looks like a cross between my high school boyfriend and my college boyfriend. The guys I’ve dated since have been more gruffly handsome, [but] he has nice dimples and he smiled very easily. He was definitely somebody I would go up to in a bar and say hello. The host took us back to our table. It’s kind of both terrible and great that there was a massive storm [the prior] weekend, so I think my first question was, “Do you have power?” And he didn’t have power, so we talked about our mutual storm and powerless experiences.
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