Autopsy · Subject M.
An asymmetric investment
No date held. 19 days, 1 phone call, 1 postponement issued by me, and a division of labor confirmed in writing by both parties.
- Running total since
- Entries
- 64
- Dates
- 44 hrs
- Travel
- 19 hr 5 min
- Total time
- 63 hr 5 min
- Cost
- $2,999.27
- Cost per date hour
- $68.17
- Recoverable
- none
Latest term in the lexicon
decentering men
verb phrase
- Stated meaning
- Choosing to organize one's time, attention, and sense of worth around something other than romantic relationships with men.
- Operating meaning
- A sound principle that the video format keeps returning to the center, since each post about not thinking about him requires about 40 minutes of editing footage about not thinking about him.
abundance mindset
noun phrase
A scarcity mindset with a better publicist, which requires the practitioner to display indifference toward the one person he is currently texting 40 times a day.
She capped the June 9 date at 2 hours before it started, because she was not getting a sitter. It is the first figure in this file that she set.
Autopsy · Subject M.
You need to try casual relationships
120 minutes at Postino, capped in advance by her, $119.68 paid by me. She recommended casual relationships and asked me to kiss her.
love language
noun phrase
A specification delivered in advance, which lets a person name a deliverable while describing a trait.
Two stated policies in this file end with the speaker correcting themselves inside the same sentence. Mine was 2 words after 17, on May 5. Hers was 5 words after a list, on May 31.
provider energy
noun phrase
A solvency check conducted in the vocabulary of astrology, which allows both parties to discuss money while maintaining that neither of them is discussing money.
Autopsy · Subject M.
I reflect feelings, if they're true
240 minutes, $367.00, 135 minutes of driving for a restaurant 20 minutes from my house. Five disclaimers in 26 hours, all volunteered.
On May 8 she offered 2 dates and I asked for both. She agreed to 1. On May 27 she sent me a screenshot of my own message and held me to the other, which is the first thing in 37 days that she started.
the ick
noun phrase
A termination clause that can be invoked retroactively for any cause, requires no explanation to the other party, and produces a story worth more at brunch than the relationship was worth at dinner.
The drive-in on May 20 put me in a car for 270 minutes: 90 of transit and 180 of film. It is the first entry where the car was both the price and the place.
Autopsy · Subject M.
Nothing notable to report
180 minutes at a drive-in, $63.50, the cheapest hour on file at $21.17. I asked for both dates she offered, got one, and left with none.
alpha
noun
A letter of the Greek alphabet used as a price point, since any hierarchy sold to an audience needs a lower rung for the audience to stand on while purchasing the program.
I loaded $102.19 onto a gaming card and we spent $32.19 of it. I handed her the card with the remaining $70.00 on it and told her to take her children. The kart race the venue was chosen for was full.
breadcrumbing
noun
A low-maintenance retention program in which a like on an old photo, sent every 9 to 12 days, keeps a person on the books at a cost of under 1 second a month.
Autopsy · Subject M.
I was giving you space to reach out
$154.69 at a go-kart venue with no karts available, $70.00 of it handed over unused. The first rationalization in this file, sent by text on May 5.
intentional dating
noun phrase
A declaration of seriousness that front-loads the job interview, so that both parties can disclose a 5-year plan before either has disclosed a middle name.
I arrived at the first date with 4 questions and asked them in order. On the second date she asked me the fourth one back, and I could not answer it until she rephrased it for me and I agreed with her version.
green flag
noun
A certificate awarded for clearing the floor of a previous disaster, which turns basic courtesy into a credential and sets the bar at the height of the worst prior ex.
Autopsy · Subject M.
The food was not representative
60 minutes at the table, 90 in the car, $84.02 paid in full by me. She found the restaurant unrepresentative. Questions even again at 10 and 10.