Match.com stats:

Total profile views: 1035 (51 since yesterday)

New received emails: 0 unsolicited, 1 reply

New sent emails: 0 new, 0 reply

New winks: 1

Optimism level: Getting a better response from my blog than my Match profile.

Two days in a row with low profile views and no emails. At this rate, I’ll have nothing to write about by the time Monday rolls around. Since I’m not even bothering with the guys who said they “definitely” or “someday” want kids, I decided to do a search just for guys leaning toward no kids. I’ve noticed that they’re not the most attractive bunch- maybe that’s the reason they don’t want to reproduce. When you find someone you like, there’s an option on Match that lets you “view others like him.” They then provide three people’s profiles. The selections always seemed to be in the same looks range, which lead me to believe the people at Match assign a rating to each person based on their pictures. I decided to check out who the others “like” me are. One of the women actually was similar in appearance to me, but the second one looked to be about 30 pounds heavier and the last one was black! Our profiles sounded completely different- the only thing we all seemed to have in common was our height. Maybe I think too highly of myself to expect I shouldn’t be lumped together with the heavy woman, but I don’t believe it’s unrealistic to assume that anybody who’s looking for a black woman isn’t looking for me. I don’t know how my profile got categorized the way it was but I think I’m getting screwed on the “view others” option and maybe that’s keeping guys from being directed to my page.

I received a letter from “Homer” today. He wrote:

here’s my email.
i’m on the road until next week.
hope all is well. (snip)@yahoo.com

I’m glad he wrote me but he didn’t answer the couple questions I asked in my last email, which forces me to start a new discussion. I’m uncertain as to the purpose of his response. Is he just being polite because we have mutual friends or does he actually have some interest in getting to know me? He already indicated he doesn’t have the time or strength to invest in a relationship right now. I don’t want to be that chick who keeps writing him letters he doesn’t want to receive. I think I might wait another day then say something like he should drop me a line when he gets back into town. That puts the weight on him to strike up the conversation- if he even wants to.

I haven’t sent Bodybuilder Boy my phone number yet but I probably will tonight. As I wrote in yesterday’s comments section, I think it would be a good idea to meet him so I can make the inevitable blind date mistakes with someone I’m not too excited about instead of somebody I am.