As everyone knows, not having a date on New Year's Eve sucks. What, you didn't know that? Well, The New York Times' Nancy Rosen reports that in The Fate of 'the Date', so it must be true.

Luckily, there are ways to meet that special someone, and this weekend's New York Times has several suggestions—if you're media savvy, and semi-well connected, naturally.

Choose which method is best for you after the jump.

·Blogging (again)!: Yep, you can use a web log, or blog, for much more than posting pictures of your cat and for B-level celebrity sightings. According to Jeffrey Rosen's Times Magazine piece, "Your Blog or Mine":

Dating bloggers like Warrior Princess say they get several hundred hits a day and dozens of e-mail messages a week, and they find the emotional support from strangers to be comforting. But their blogs have not yielded lots of dates, in part because potential boyfriends are understandably wary about having their most intimate behaviors broadcast to the world.

·Oh, well maybe it's easier to use your book to meet a mate? According to Curtis Sittenfeld's Times Book Review essay "You Can't Get a Man With a Pen":

Based on conversations with editors, booksellers and fellow writers, I've come to believe women [writers] can have groupies, or at least there are plenty of female writers who strike the fancy of male readers. The catch is that typically these women fall into one — or both — of two categories: either the woman is very attractive or she writes a lot about sex.

·Gosh. Well, maybe you can use your business. According Abby Ellin's Vow's column, Laurel Touby and Jon Fine:

In 1993, after a stint at Business Week, she became a freelance writer and editor a notoriously lonely pursuit. So Ms. Touby and another freelancer, in need of some community, organized a cocktail party for fellow writers. Ms. Touby figured this was a perfect way to meet others in her line of work and all right, it's true try finding a mate...."A lot of people think my motives were completely altruistic, and mostly they were," she said. But, she added, "Secretly I wanted to meet a boyfriend too."

So, you see, it's all about thinking outside of the box (and using the resources available to you—links, agents, business contacts, etc.) to find your soul mate.

And, if any of the above works for you, don't forget to thank The New York Times in your wedding vows.
The Fate of 'the Date' [NYT 'City']
Your Blog or Mine [NYT Mag]
You Can't Get a Man With a Pen [NYTBR]
Laurel Touby and Jon Fine [NYT 'Style']