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Will breakfast Sunday morning follow dinner Saturday night?

Ben, Second-year College student

Major?
Undeclared

Sexual Orientation?
Straight

What extracurriculars do you participate in?
Sigma Chi Fraternity, Intramural Sports, Habitat for Humanity

What do you like to do in your free time?
Golfing, Road Tripping, Spelunking

What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
Smart enough to understand my jokes (but not smart enough to trick me), outgoing, spontaneous. Not fat or busted.

What are your religious affiliations?
Jewish

What are your favorite TV shows?
Seinfeld, The Office, King of the Hill

What are your favorite movies?
Caddyshack, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men

What music do you like (genres and bands)?
Music: Classic Rock, Country, Southern Rock. Bands: Hill and Wood, Marshall Law, Soiree

What’s your favorite food?
Steak

What are your favorite books and authors?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Anthem by Ayn Rand, Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy

Describe your ideal date (not person but outing)?
Great dinner followed by a night of inebriated dancing.

What are deal breakers?
Missing chromosomes, missing teeth

Do you smoke?
Hookah

Are you outgoing or shy?
Outgoing

What do you want to do when you graduate?
Make bank

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Working for an advertising firm and preparing for an early retirement consisting of teaching high school economics and coaching track and field.

If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
Cannonball guy, I like simple thrills.

Carly, Second-year College student

Major?
Undecided but interested in pre-commerce. and Spanish

What extracurriculars do you participate in?
I have a horse here and I do Club Polo, kickboxing, Madison House, Intramural Tennis and Outdoors at UVA

What do you like to do in your free time? I
I am a competitive equestrian so a lot of my time is spent riding and taking care of my horse but I also like working out, reading and partying.

What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date? I
I like someone who is outgoing (I have a pretty strong personality so I need someone who can compete with that), is respectful, has a good sense of humor and is intelligent. Personality is more important than physical attributes but physical attraction is definitely important in a relationship. My “type” would be someone who takes care of themselves (works out), is clean-cut and has a nice smile. I would say preppy but that isn’t really necessary, it’s just who I am usually attracted to. Think Channing Tatum in a polo...O.K., I recognize you probably won’t find him, but if you do, you know who to call.

What are your religious affiliations?
I am Methodist but I am not super religious. I believe in God and all that jazz but I’m not a regular church-goer.

What are your favorite TV shows?
Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Two and a Half Men, SEINFELD!

What are your favorite movies and actors?
Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Superbad, Knocked Up, Cool Runnings (ya man)

What music do you like?
Light rock but I listen to everything from country to classic. My “loves” are O.A.R., Jack Johnson, The Format, The Fray, John Mayer, oldies, etc.

What’s your favorite food?
I love food. That probably came out as me sounding like a fatass but whatever. I’m a steak and potatoes kinda girl but in general I eat pretty healthy. I love fruit especially berries and as strange as it may sound, I really love cereal.

Are you outgoing or shy?
I am very, very outgoing. I can rein it in but once you get to know me I tend to be rather bold.

What do you want to do when you graduate?
I want to work internationally. Right now I’m thinking about working for a corporation in their overseas department, but who knows where I will actually end up. Grad school is also a possibility.

If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
Ooooh I love this question! I would be an acrobat if it wasn’t for my complete lack of grace. For the purposes of this survey, how about we just disregard that part of me and go with acrobat. You can’t take your eyes off the acrobat because they are always doing something ridiculous and somewhat dangerous and their energy is somewhat contagious.

Ben: I figured it could go two ways — she’d be hot and it’d be a good date, or she’d be ugly and boring and it’d be funny when I talked about it later. But she wasn’t. I pulled up to pick her up outside of Watson [and] I could tell from the street lights she’d look good because she was wearing nice clothes. She had a good coat on. She got in the car. And she looked good.

Carly: He picked me up outside my dorm and I just got in the car. I was running late so I was glad he was running late too. I was getting ready and realized I was supposed to be down there in like two minutes. So it was fine.

Ben: I was two minutes late, but that’s not big deal. She can live with that I think. It wasn’t that cold outside yet. We just said “hi” and talked about how funny it was that she didn’t know who to be looking for, not even what car. I didn’t know who to be looking for but we met up and it worked out fine.

Carly: We drove to the restaurant, an Indian restaurant. We just started talking; I don’t even remember what we were talking about.

Ben: I was a little bit nervous. I had spent the day hanging out with some girls that are really hot. I didn’t go to dinner with them to go on this date so I was a little concerned. I rushed to get there but made myself look really hot, naturally.

Carly: I wasn’t really nervous because I didn’t have a lot invested in the date. I didn’t know him at all, but I was kind of excited. I’ve never been on a blind date before so it was fun. 

Ben: She had never been to an Indian restaurant, but she loves to eat different kinds of food. I recommended something tandoori, so she got tandoori chicken. And I got lamb rogan josh. She said it was good.

Carly: I ordered chicken ... tanadoori? I don’t remember. I had never gotten Indian food before so he had to explain the entire eating process to me. But it was pretty delicious. I kept asking him specific preparation questions and made him into the go-to expert for Indian food. Apparently, it was prepared in a special pan. He got some lamb something. There were chunks of meat in some sort of saucy something. I don’t know.

Ben: I normally go to Milan for the lunch buffet so I had never actually ordered Indian food before. But I knew I liked those two dishes. 

Carly: The conversation was good. We talked a lot about a lot of really random things, like random life stories. He’s [in a fraternity], too, so that was good. He did sports in high school and stuff. We’re both thinking about pre-comm. We both like outdoors stuff and we both like to go out. 

Ben: We both seemed to like lots of outdoors things. She thought it was cool that I went hiking. She rides horses and went skydiving and I think that’s pretty cool. We’re both Greek now, because she just pledged. The conversation was good. It felt like normal people talking, which is good for me because I’m not a normal person. We talked about a lot of different things; topics would just flow really easily. There was not much awkwardness and it was fun. The only semi-awkward thing was when I asked her why she signed up for it. Her response was what I expected: she thought it looked fun. I’m assuming she’s pretty happy with how it turned out.

Carly: I had a really good time. I had a lot of fun actually, which I wasn’t anticipating. I thought he was really cute and he was really easy to talk to. He was really nice. Afterwards, he dropped me back off at my dorm because I had to do my stat homework, like a nerd. He was going to some birthday party and invited me too, so I went with him after that. He had a pledge drive us, which was fantastic. I really want one. The party was good. I ran into a bunch of people that I knew, too, which was good because I didn’t really want to be just intruding on his friends. We ran into two of my suitemates. They spoke Hebrew together. It was awesome.

Ben: I had fun. It was more fun later, though. One of my friends called me reminding me about a party he was having at his apartment for one of his roommates, so I asked her if she wanted to go. She just had to finish up some stat homework that was due the next day. So I dropped her off at her dorm and then I got a pledge to take me over to my brother’s apartment. She called me around 11 and I arranged for a ride for me with a pledge to go pick her up. She came back and immediately it turns out that several people there know her and she knows them through her suitemates, so that made it less awkward at first. The night progressed and it became sort of a dance party. We had a good time dancing and stuff. I asked her if she wanted to come back to my apartment. I got a ride from the same pledge back to my apartment with her. On the ride back we listened to country music, which we both like, so that was cool.

Carly: The party was fun. Then we went back to his apartment and it was really fun. I kind of declared it my birthday because my birthday was Monday, so that was cool. It went really well so it seems like an 8.76 [out of ten]. I had a good time. I’m also going to say that I think it’s the best one that’s been in the Cav Daily so far since the main premise of it wasn’t that all we had to talk about was macaroni. I felt like we had a lot in common so that was good. It wasn’t awkward or anything. We were sitting in bed and I said, “You should Facebook friend me.” He just dropped me off the next morning and I don’t know how to phrase it, but I’m assuming I’ll see him some time again, hopefully.

Ben: I was just laughing because I had no idea what The Cavalier Daily was going to think about this. The next morning I gave her one of my shirts and a pair of shorts and drove her back to her dorm. I was going to get breakfast but the Cav Daily didn’t give me enough money. I spent it all on dinner. I wasn’t expecting breakfast. I’m going to give it a 9. I feel like the party we went to could’ve been better. But that’s not my fault. We’re Facebook friends. That happened shortly after I dropped her off. She has my shorts, so... She can have the shirt; it’s a small, it doesn’t fit me. She has my favorite pair of shorts though, so I need them back.

Ben and Carly have texted a few times, but he still hasn’t gotten his shorts back.

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