Camille Goes For Networking, Not Hooking Up

This post is about my friend Camille. I was writing about her love life on one of my old blogs on Wednesdays, and I'm continuing it here because I find it fascinating.

Camille is in law school, so take from that what you will. She an amazing friend and bridesmaid (she's planning my bridal shower thingee). She's also a hopeless romantic/relationship saboteur.

How can you be both a hopeless romantic and a relationship saboteur? It's not easy I'll tell you that. But Camille has it down to a science. She'll meet a guy and start thinking of all the romantic possibilities. We'll chat about possible signs a guy likes her, which happens to be a totally fun chick activity, and then two days later, she's telling me she's completely lost interest.

She loses interest without warning and rather abruptly. I think it helps her weed out the frogs while she's on her way to her prince. But it's certainly amusing, especially when she dropped that guy she met a the wedding of some friends of ours from church. Then she had to figure out if she was going to have to avoid birthday parties and barbecues and the like for a while.

I think you have enough background now for me to launch in to the purpose of today's post. Camille has a networking event coming up. It will have law students, med students, and business students hosted at the University of Chicago. She told her classmates this event was for networking purposes and not for hooking up purposes.

This was of course right before her next sentence asked if she will leave with a date.

I hope she meets someone there. Back when I was in med school, I was convinced that professional people should date other professional people because they understood what it was like and the demands on your life.

Now that I'm marrying a musician who was convinced he'd only end up with another musician, I can understand the need to branch out of your comfort zone. But with Camille's busy schedule, the opportunity to meet so many new men all in one place cannot be passed.

She must be dolled up, looking delectable (yet classy) and being super friendly. I just hope her classmates don't notice she isn't just "networking". If anything interesting happens at the event, I'll be sure to tell you all about it.

How do you meet new men? Should Camille just focus on networking for realsies?

Camille Sees A Sign

Camille is one of my friends who's love life I wrote about on my other blog, Camille's Wishful Wednesday. In this new blog, she won't have a day, just an update as they arise. If you read that other blog, all the updates I'll have on my friends' lives will be here. If this is your first time reading about it, you should go back and read the basics so you understand the background.

To sum it up, Camille is the hopeless romantic saboteur. She would love for a prince charming to come sweep her off her feet. Not this prince charming.

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More like this prince charming.

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By the way, Happy 39th Birthday, Idris Elba, with your fine ass. Moving on.

So Camille would love to be swept off her feet, but she's always finding something wrong with guys. High standards are good, but she'll drop a guy for not liking the way he dresses. She sabotages things before they get off the ground. Occasionally, she finds a guy she really does like. There are just more frogs than princes in her world.

So recently, we've taken to just imagining things about guys for amusement. In my last post about her on my other blog, I talked about the guy at her school who was watching her in the library and what that might mean.

This past week, a friend of hers met a guy and hit it off with him. Guess what? He has the same last name as the guy Camille is wondering about. It's a sign!

If you didn't know, some of us women do things like that. We look for signs and over-analyze everything for lack of actual interaction to go by. He's Just Not That Into should have taught us better.

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At least we know better than to think our flights of fancy mean something deeper. It's mostly for fun.

But then again. Wouldn't it be nice if they ended up together and all these little signs at the beginning pointed to it like in a movie? Easy and I definitely seem like characters out of a romantic comedy sometimes...

Seriously, we do. The best example I can think of is that we break into song and dance no matter where we are. We waltzed, in front of people, at an arts festival in Bucktown after one of his gigs. We break into songs, in harmony, to sing songs that would be the soundtrack for life's moments. And when certain songs come on, no matter where we are, we must dance to them. It drives all our single friends crazy, just like in a movie. All the quirky things I used to do myself became less quirky and more a sign of our sympatico nature once we both do them together.

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Tell me someone gets the sympatico reference!