Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

i'll look at it if you like, webmail me.

(and yes, hot girls probably getting bombarded)

i'll just throw it out to the teeming hordes

9044za

^ that's backwards

something tells me it is not a coincidence i am distracting myself from resumes and cover letters with this "service"

And she's backed out, serves me right for talking about a date in advance.

xp we are only 84% matches

is the earth *really* bigger than the sun?

pretty good profile, but I don't get a sense of "voice" about you. Is that a lame criticism??! I guess I really look for that. But maybe it's just me.

not just you, i look for that too.

only 84% ? but that's as high w/ people in my area so far (excepting my ex's current boss)

that is my voice, i'm quiet and polite :-D

xp it looks bigger from where i'm sitting

can anybody recommend the relevant anne lamotte article about writing voice

I think all the percents are kind of a red herring? IDK I skipped half the questions, which seems to be about the percentage they asked about w33d

So far my favorite experience through this site was meeting a Russian woman with an absolutely acid sense of humor who informed me after 5 minutes that this wasn't a date and that she was just bored.

We talked about Tarkovsky for 40 minutes and she left.

Also skipped all the stupid MENSA type questions, and the politics ones, I think I'm deliberately doing this whole site wrongs.

that sounds like a well spent 45 minutes imo

the questions mainly seem to be about sifting people who like work vs people who like college and hipsters vs squares

and bored vs serious vs feeling the clock

maybe i will submit these ideas as questions

Anyone else read "I love to travel" with a ton of vacation photos as "You should be able to afford to keep up with me", or is it just me?

family $$$, student travel or careerist imo

i should add to my profile, "road trip experience is a must, girls w tents will be given serious consideration"

ex took the tent :-(

I live in the most heavily educated city in the country, so I'm guessing its both student travel and family $. I've sworn off the grad students, I've got an aversion to them now.

"Oh you've spent the last 3 years writing grant proposals? How fascinating."

Where is that? DC?

Madison, WI, it's its own little world.

Sounds a lot like Boulder.

Is Boulder a small hippie city surrounded by Republican farmers and ranchers?

Because that'd be pretty close, everyone seems to move to Austin or Portland after living here.

Getting p. tired of everyone's love of Johnny Cash. I am awful.

come on siah poor people must work

I too feel like the whole travel thing is a disposable income signifier. I know you can do it inexpensively too but sometimes that rules out things like day jobs and leases in your own name, which frankly people my age mostly want their prospective dates to have. TELL ME MORE ABOUT BACKPACKING THROUGH INDIA no wait don't.

agreed

I make almost exactly the median income for men my age, but being blue collar in a city full of post-doctoral students is like having leprosy or something. I say blue collar, they hear totally unambitious.

Anyway I've successfully alienated a couple more people in the last few days. I wrote to 2 likely candidates and one never responded at all, one was good for 1 round of correspondence but then dropped it. I probably shouldn't be allowed to communicate with human beings I might want to smooch.

do you have tattoos and like punk rock tho xp

Josiah your description above sounds exactly like Boulder. Last I heard it's one of the most educated cities in the US, too.

X-post: I have a tattoo and make rap beats and techno. Different set of signifiers, I guess.

Doesn't do me much good in a city full of jam bands and NPR listeners though.

patience

So far my favorite experience through this site was meeting a Russian woman with an absolutely acid sense of humor who informed me after 5 minutes that this wasn't a date and that she was just bored.

We talked about Tarkovsky for 40 minutes and she left.

― Josiah Alan, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:24 (1 hour ago) Permalink

She sounds like a keeper. If it wan't a date, what was she doing there? I don't know, I'm getting a dangerous feeling that you guys are *maybe* too good for OKC. Maybe its time to go back to drugs or literature or however people amused themselves pre-online-dating.

I would OKC with William Burroughs, though.

I dated drugs for the first half of my twenties, we're no longer on speaking terms. Literature was my main fling in high school. Out of of the wine, women and song triad I'm pretty much down to song.

I love drugs but they don't love me. Think I aged out of that party.

OK, so books? Books never hurt anyone, did they?

only atlas shrugged

And Mein Kampf.

I guess even a bizarre or a bad date is more interesting to me than reading a book, I've met some unique people on OKC that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I definitely look for book people. Music people often annoy me and Movie people sometimes do, too.

I've completely given up finding someone with shared interests in music, all I ask is tolerance for my apartment full of vinyl and keyboards. Having shared interests might be nice but its better in a friend than someone I'm interested in romantically.

As an experiment I tried rewriting my profile without mentioning music or movies at all.

It came out looking very leftie and sort of dull.

siah what do you do? i thought grad students found blue collar workers sexy?

talk about your efforts to oust granny-starving homunculus scott walker

I make picture frames for Walmart = very unsexy. I'd love to find a union job but they're rare.