- Dan bought me flowers
- I bought Dan a vegetable peeler
- We had dinner at the same pub as our very first date
- Then we played trivia, because it was our regular trivia at Dave's, so it was convenient as well as cute
- I finally changed my Facebook status to "in a relationship"
Anyway, we placed but fourth at trivia, which I hope isn't a bleak sign that the good ship MarDan is headed for the rocks.
The Facebook relationship update, on the other hand, was very well received. Last count: 42 likes. The interesting post on gentrification I posted hours later? Two likes! Maybe my friends just felt awkward that they were checking their Facebook in a bougie cafe that had displaced a Colombian social club. Still, there is a striking difference between how Facebook handles relationship stuff, and how it handles any other sort of life event.
Relationships, engagements, marriages and (I guess) break ups: "life events." All other things: mere "status updates." You get a big star on the life event posts, along with a little photo montage of the parties concerned. I dodged that bullet thanks to Dan not being on Facebook, so now it just looks like I'm delusional.
Of course, I know I haven't hit "peak like." There are at least two life events and one status update that could still top this occasion. I could:
- Give birth
- Get married
- Win some sort of major, international award (debatable)
