Meditations On Sucking At Relationships, Dating, And Not-Dating, Too, As It Happens

I have a date tonight is a thing I didn’t say much last calendar year, though at the time of this writing — a Thursday, one of the last of 2017— it happens to be true. Or it’s true for the time being (3:26 p.m. being the time being), which doesn’t necessarily mean it will be true later (later being tonight). I have a five-hour window during which…