stop encouraging me

i had a little round-table discussion at lunch yesterday with some of the ladies at work about my OC. two of them were trying to convince me that he was really shy and i just had to be less subtle about what i wanted. my receptionist was also part of the discussion and she just kept giving me the, "don't you do it! don't go back!" look. later on, she said to me, "you know how i feel about this. leave it alone. you're in a good place now." i agreed. my Trainmate is the worst. apparently her husband and she worked together when they started dating. he's really shy and she said she chased him for a year and a half before he finally called her. she said sometimes he would seem like he was interested and other times, he acted like she wasn't alive (sound familiar???). stop encouraging me. stop giving me hopeful scenarios to hold onto. stop. because i want to stop.

i know i've said this before but i'm ready to take my profile down and give online dating a rest for the next little while. it's time consuming and hasn't yielded particularly strong potentials. i guess it's like that in the regular dating world too but maybe i'm just feeling tired. it's been sort of non-stop for me the past couple of weeks. if i haven't been out after work with an online date, it's been out with a visiting friend or out with workmates or at work or family parties and get togethers. i need some downtime!!! yet, i have one or two events coming up (my cousin's wedding in two weeks and a friend is visiting from NY at the end of next week), as well as three or four online potentials that i have yet to meet.

what's the saying? no rest for the wicked? :)