"I can be your cowgirl"

Okay, remember 28 year old local guy? For lack of confusion, let's call him Nate. Well Nate here hasn't messaged me back. I replied to his message and we had what I thought was a fairly succesful subsequent set of e-mails. They went something like this:

Me: You write gonzo journalism? Examples?

Nate: Okay, I exaggerated a bit. More New Journalism. Close to P.J. O'Rourke than Hunter S. Thompson (I am bruise easily). I would send an example but I can't really do attachments through this site and I am not sure how secure it is (I am a bit paranoid about tech stuff and my writing). If it were up to me I would using a type-writer, but everyone wants e-submissions now.

followed 12 minutes later by...

Nate: Well, I just looked at your profile. Oh my. Not only was I not turned off by what was on it (I swear I noticed your hair first), I do indeed enjoy Chaucer and can read it in the original. Looks like I made the right call. :)

Me: Hahahahaha I'm taking Chaucer in Middle English right now and my prof makes us read outloud but I am scareeeeeeeed.

That was yesterday afternoon. He hasn't replied and I know he's not only been online, but visited my profile. Go figure.

I guess I shouldn't mind that much. I'm meeting boys online at an exponentially faster rate than I do in real life. Just yesterday I had three IMs. THREE!

The first just wanted sex, and asked me if I was a "good girl". He didn't notice he lived several hours away in America I guess. And...was definately not my type. Pervert.

The second was a cowboy! Okay not actually, just in one of his pictures. He says he dresses up as a cowboy for special occasions. I had a good, long conversation with him. He was cute, didn't seem creepy or stalkery and, did I mention? ALSO lives in America! Washington. Not that far but, come on, who's going to travel trans-country to meet someone they met online? Not me. Oh Mr. Cowboy, how sad you make me.

The third was just some weird little dude who wanted us to ask eachother "random questions." His first question to me? Do you take long showers? Umm...either you're naive beyond infinity or I can see where this is going. No thanks.

So really, truly, unfortunately, after three days or so on OkCupid there is still no potential romance in my horizons. In fact, there isn't even a potential first date, damn.

I almost wish they didn't make you upload photos. So often I'm reading a profile going wow this guy sounds great, then I see him. I have three automatic turn-offs. Really, super dorky to the extreme, over-the-edge gangsterness, and big and hairy. I've just described most of the people on OkCupid.

It would be an interesting experiment to meet someone's personality first, before seeing their face. I mean, that's the part you're supposed to fall for, right? Blind people do it all the time. Do yo think it's possible to fall in love with someone without seeing them, meet them and discover they are hideously ugly, and have them still look beautiful to you because you love them? Who knows, but I feel I am missing out on a lot of interesting people because of my visual biases.