So, to explain, I have an account on friendster.
Dana got me to sign up a very long time ago, when it was first starting up, and I periodically receive messages on it from strangers and friends.
Some of them are very cool. That's where I met Rockstar Daniel, even.
I do have a profile, and it says I'm not looking for a lovematch. It also makes me sound like a quirky, high-maintenance, bitchy geek. But this sort of message from a stranger is new to me...
I suppose I'm a bit on the old side for you, but that shouldn't stop us from going to hear music or going dancing, or bowling, or sailing, or skiing, or drinking, or to dinner or the opera, or to shoot pool, etc., etc.
Going out to dinner is probably the only thing on that list I'd enjoy doing. Well, okay, shooting pool might be okay, but I don't know about shooting pool with you.
Im a very fit, athletic, youthful 41 (base 12). I look 39, feel like 35, and act (sometimes) like 22. Im a successful author and entrepreneur. Calculus for Dummies and Everyday Math for Everyday Life are two of my titles. If you write back, Ill send you my web site where you can read more about my business.
Hmmm. I'm a very immature, slightly out-of-shape, obnoxious 33. I look 25, feel like 30, and (often) act like 15. I'm a salon manager and a cosmetologist. I write on a blog for fun. I am not writing back, but I really can't imagine why you'd think that I'd care about reading more about your business, although for some lady out there, I am sure that's an enticing inducement to check you out.
Im a graduate of Brown University (B.A Philosophy) and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Practiced law for four years. Now I do math. I love math and science an perhaps have roughly a 13% to 19% geek component (I play blindfold chess). I love to jitterbug to oldies and sort of ballroom/swing dance to old standards. Im not a bad dancer. Oh, what the hell..to tell you the truth, Im damn good.
I'm a graduate of the University of Iowa (BA in Studio Art) and La'James College of Hairstyling. Practiced the cosmetological arts for 11+ years. I still do hair.
And I'm sorry, if you say that you "love math and science" to a complete stranger, and you play blindfold chess, your geek component is a hell of a lot higher than 13% - 19%. Probably closer to 85% - 95%. And I'm imagining that blindfold chess is inordinately boring to spectate. Sloppy Twister even sounds more enticing.
I took a ballroom dancing class in high school, and I was forced to waltz and polka in gym class, but I wouldn't call myself a good dancer, which is fortunate as I don't particularly like to dance. The only Jitterbug I dig is the Cafe in Seattle.
I want to shake up my stale social life push the envelope. Im adventurous, curious about everything, love to explore, but need someone to join me. My friends are all married. I love all kinds of music (Some favorites: Lucinda Williams, Getz/Gilberto, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, Jonnie Cash, Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Beethoven, Bach, Puccini, Celtic music). We could go to Fitzgeralds, the House of Blues, Ravinia, or some lesser-known venues.
I quite enjoy not really having a social life. It give me more time to watch television and sleep. Some of my friends are married, and some of them aren't, but a 40+ year old bachelor probably has something wrong with him that keeps him not married. Especially if he's inclined to troll for lovemates on Friendster. I like lots of music, and I tolerate Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, some classical, and most Celtic music, but I really have no interest in visiting any of those venues with you. Unless there's something good playing at House of Blues, like Duran Duran. I do have a couple of sweet tickets to see nin at the All-State Arena in October, but I don't think I'd invite you, or that you'd particularly enjoy the show if I did.
Im liberal, conservative, serious, religious (sort of, but not in the traditional/church-going sense), passionate about music and the aesthetics in art, nature, and everyday life, quirky, earnest, irreverent, rebellious, considerate, different, academic, happy, confident, shy, idealistic, easily excited, contemplative. I love bawdy rugby songs (played rugby at Brown) and still, melancholy, overcast day in autumn. My motto: Do it to him before he does it to you. Hate political correctness Love smart, slender/fit, kind, happy, spunky, spirited, feminine, tough women.
Ooh, I get it. You are complicated and multidimensional. I am also some of those things, but not as much as you apparently are. I'm liberal, spiritual, enjoy music and art, like nature as an abstract construct viewed through a window or from underneath a shady tree on a breezy summer day, could care less about everyday life, am quirky, immature, irreverent, rude, nurturing, unprofessional, likely to bear grudges, compassionate, destined for crazy old cat ladyhood, pedestrian, trite and cliche, self-possessed, easily irritated, and prone to crying. I have no interest in rugby or associated music, and I don't really like melancholy weather, regardless of the time of year. My motto: Do what thou wilt, an' it harm none. I believe in being polite and considerate, but I hate to be forced into what society expects. Love hot, lanky, fit, tall men who can hoist me over their shoulders like a sack of potatoes. Intelligence and a sense of humor are mandatory, but so are ambition and drive beyond that of a drive-thru cashier.
Your interests:...surprise me. Im game for anything. Im tired of the same old shit.
My interests:...not you. And I have to admit that I am a huge fan of the apostrophe, especially when it separates an I and an m.
And, as an aside, completely unrelated to the above missive of dorkiness, I find myself vastly entertained by someone else that wrote me on Friendster. He's an Irish, career-Firefighter for the city of Chicago. Not even Irish-American, but actually from Ireland. The only thing that ruins the stereotype, is that he lives on the northside in an apartment, instead of a house on the southside near a train.
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