No matter how hot the pics, how glowing the reviews, how ringing the character testimonials, how many times you've seen her, you should always keep in the back of your big head the notion that reliability issues are common in this hobby.
Few things in the hobby suck worse than being no-showed. One that does is being no-showed after taking a day off to celebrate your birthday with a provider. We preliminarily set something up yesterday by e-mail. She said she'd call me today. So I sat around the house for most of the day, waiting for a call that never came.
Fortunately, I had a Plan B. I didn't get the level of service from her that I was hoping for from Plan A, but at least I got rubbed the right way.