oh, boy(s)

As you might be aware, I don't have a TV. Well, there is a TV in the apartment, but since the digital switch-over it's really more of a very large and hideous paper weight.

Anywho. This lack of TV, coupled with my inexplicable need (can we blame it on my generation?) to be watching something almost constantly have led me down the path of addiction with a little web site called Hulu. In case you're not familiar, Hulu streams television shows and movies online 24 hours a day AND lucky for me, they carry just about every NBC show ever made, filmed or thought about deeply on the toilet.

So the other day, not long after I had a very important lunch with very important people, where we talked about what original content like interviews and video can do to drive traffic to a site, I watched an episode of The Office that features an exit interview with one of the characters who is leaving the company. And all that was a-stewin' in my brain and out came this idea. I won't call it brilliant, because it could be awful. But it was an idea nonetheless.

I decided to conduct exit interviews with my ex-boyfriends.

Am I crazy? Probably. But I think we've established that much already outside the context of this little social experiment. Here's the thing: I'm on decent terms with (almost) all of my exes, and I figured it would be funny. Plus, as I told the guys when soliciting their help, I know how much you people love to read about a.) me making an ass of myself, b.) my horrendous love life and c.) combinations of the two.

So brace yourselves. In the next four days you'll be getting an exit interview a day, starting from my first boyfriend and ending with my most recent. There is one missing in there; I put in the request and he did not oblige. But more about that later. I tried to vary the questions from serious to light to just downright ridiculous, and the answers I got in return are equally as varied. And hopefully a little entertaining, too.

Tomorrow you'll get the unedited, uncut exit interview answers of Boyfriend No. 1.


cheers,
elizabeth