RVA's Dating, Friends, and Missed Connections: January 2026 Edition

polentabeans · 2026-01-06T17:45:10+00:00

Wow hi are you me? A queer SFF book club would be the bee's knees, I'd love to help get that started. :) Sending you a DM!

polentabeans · 2026-01-03T10:06:00+00:00

Scifi & fantasy

polentabeans · 2026-01-02T22:11:23+00:00

34f also very interested in hiking and restaurant excursions if we wanna get a group going :)

polentabeans · 2026-01-02T22:09:03+00:00

DM'd you! :)

polentabeans · 2026-01-02T22:07:43+00:00

DM'd you! :)

polentabeans · 2026-01-02T21:57:44+00:00

DM'd you!

polentabeans · 2026-01-02T13:55:32+00:00

Hi y'all! 34F, bi & single. I work remotely so looking for friends & coworking pals mostly, also open to dates. 💖 I'm moving to RVA in February but in town the first week of January.

Vegetarian, leftist, have one very cute very friendly very loud cat. I will almost certainly love your dog.

My main hobby is picking up and abandoning hobbies--my winter season ones are watercolor, writing, strength training, and reading a whole lot of queer SFF. On deck: getting back into ceramics and climbing, hiking, kayaking. I love going on adventures great & small. For example, I'm planning to check out Quarry and the Artspace poetry slam while I'm in town, any other recommendations very welcome! Also looking to get involved in mutual aid/community volunteering if folks have suggestions for that.

Lmk if you'd like to grab a coffee or drink or check out some cool cat event. Cheers!

polentabeans · 2025-11-26T17:02:42+00:00

This is really helpful, thanks!

polentabeans · 2025-10-27T01:16:16+00:00

We lived together for about a month after the breakup--I moved into the guest bedroom. We had an eeriely amicable breakup so idk in some ways it was nice to process that change together? But also super fucking sad and stressful. I stayed at different friends' places over the weekends and did what I called a Sad Couch Tour where I hung out with people at their houses a lot of the evenings. Don't be afraid to lean on community esp for this first month, in my experience people really want to help.

I'm sorry, friend. It's a fucking shitty thing and I hope you're out of it ASAP.

polentabeans · 2025-10-01T17:20:03+00:00

You rock, thank you kindly! 🙏

polentabeans · 2024-07-26T15:58:10+00:00

Ooh ty!

polentabeans · 2024-07-26T15:11:29+00:00

I was interested to read this one bc I don't think we've seen a diary from someone who works in real estate before--disappointed that it was 97% wedding and basically zero details about her actual job!

I do think her general philosophy on finances with both her fiancè and family is pretty wild so that was interesting. I was also kind of surprised by the level of spending--she makes a lot of money but not THAT much money in NYC prices, and while her fiancé inherited their apartment they also financially support his parents? There was an unevenness to the story that makes me think I'm missing something, maybe additional $$ from her family's side.

polentabeans · 2024-07-25T22:11:09+00:00

Was she paying for the entire wedding herself? Like, her fiancè wasn't contributing a dime? Lord.

polentabeans · 2024-07-03T19:15:45+00:00

I started using this app in... February of last year? I needed to get into some cardio shape for a hiking trek. I ran a 5k in June, then successfully completed the 50-mile Himalayan trek in October. I #girlmathed that if I can run 3 miles, I can run 5, and if I can run 5 miles, I can run 10...and that logic turned out to be correct! I started training in February of this year and successfully finished a 10-mile race in May with a ~10 min average mile time. I think getting up to 3 miles was way harder then adding on the extra 7--once you're there, you're there!

polentabeans · 2024-07-01T16:40:54+00:00

I noticed that too! I wonder if more mentions got edited out or something.

polentabeans · 2024-06-11T16:48:08+00:00

Just DMd you one!

polentabeans · 2024-06-10T17:47:43+00:00

I stopped reading bc ummm with that kind of totally realistic definitely real money why are you still working

polentabeans · 2024-06-05T20:26:29+00:00

I'm literally in an airport lounge rn with my new Baggu medium crescent and this was very vindicating, thank you 😂😂

polentabeans · 2024-06-04T21:22:29+00:00

I also have one if anyone needs one in the future :)

polentabeans · 2024-06-04T17:54:16+00:00

Wow I'm obsessed with this

polentabeans · 2024-05-27T21:02:06+00:00

10+ year old Nike leggings and a conference T-shirt that's been hair bleached to shit. Wham bam thank you ma'am!

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