Match.com stats:

Total profile views: 1828 (36 since yesterday)

New received emails: 0

New sent emails: 0 new, 1 reply

New winks: 0

Optimism level: Happy to see the profile views picking up. Though I guess it’s meaningless if nobody writes me.

After putting it off for a few days, I finally replied to George Costanza. He’s sooo not my type in some ways but he seems to have a good personality, he’s agnostic and he probably doesn’t want kids. Those are some big plusses so I finally sent him a note. I might not have if I hadn’t announced in here that I would be writing to at least one guy a day until I get some dates lined up. It’s almost odd the sense of obligation I feel to keep my word in a blog read by complete strangers. It’s not like anybody reading this would care to hold me to it but that’s typical of how I operate in the real world. I’ll sometimes slack when I only have myself to answer to but if I’ve told even one other person I’ll do something, I’ll do it. I guess that’s one of the good side-effects of keeping this blog.

Once again, I struggled with what to say in my letter. I don’t know why that’s always such a challenge for me. I can pop out a novella in my blog in 10 minutes but when I respond to Match emails, it takes me an hour to compose a couple paragraphs I’ll end up regretting later anyway. I think it might be due to the fact I can’t stand small talk in person so I’m not keen on doing it in writing. But I know if I sent a long conversational email, I’d seem weird. I ended up keeping it pretty simple, asking him a few questions about his work and offering nothing about myself. I didn’t deliberately withhold personal information, it’s just that he didn’t ask anything about me and I reached my two paragraph response limit before I had a chance to talk about myself. In any case, I’m certain I’ll hear back from him simply because he doesn’t totally wow me and guys like that always respond.