Let’s start at the beginning.

It started when Lisa broke up with me. Since she left and found someone else (less than a month later!), I have been miserable.
I moved to New York in July 2005.  I didn’t know anyone and felt a bit lonely.  So I signed up with match.com.  I emailed Lisa and we later met for the [...]

The cherry is broken.

I spend nearly two hours commuting to my temp job each way.  Two hours in the morning.  Two hours at night.  I spend the time in between doing some glorified data entry for a financial institution. 
 In a former life, I had two master’s degrees from a top-rated public university and a consulting gig at a [...]