Match.com stats:

Total profile views: 655 (130 since yesterday)

New emails: 2 (”falafel” count: 2/13)

New winks: 5

Optimism level: Things seem to be picking up.

I’m sure my blog is becoming a bit redundant; guy sends me an email and I pick it apart. But as I mentioned, I’ve been holding off on contacting prospective matches because of the holiday. In the next couple days, I’ll begin my initial assault. I’ve decided not to start with the most desirable prospects. Instead, I’ll send a few emails out to guys who seem date-worthy, but who may not view me as the greatest match for them. Depending on their response (or lack of response), I may adjust my profile and/or photos before going after the top guns.

I came across a very interesting profile today. Over the last few days, I’ve been going through my list of guys who passed the “appearance-doesn’t-make-me-giggle-or-vomit” test. I checked out their profiles and removed the ones with no potential. I found one with a picture that didn’t entice me, but a profile that did. We have very similar interests and even in his short answers, I detected we have similar senses of humor. Not only that, he’s agnostic and probably doesn’t want kids. Ding ding! I decided to check out his other pictures (which, of course, meant exposing my identity to him if he has a subscription). The other pictures were not very good, in fact three of the four were borderline goofy. But I quickly realized…

I know him from somewhere.

I racked my brain for a couple hours before realizing he’s a comic and I had the hots for him about 6-7 years ago! I don’t think I really knew him, maybe we met a couple times, but I remember discussing him with a mutual friend who told me he was in a serious relationship. I’m guessing he ended up marrying the girl because his marital status is listed as “divorced.” The fact that he’s a good-looking guy but chose to submit sub-par pictures made him even more appealing to me. This may seem contrary to what I’ve said about submitting attractive pictures, but that applies mostly to people who rank below an 8 on the appearance scale. The 8’s, 9’s and certainly the 10’s who downplay their good looks get major brownie points in my book. I definitely plan to contact him in the first round of emails- maybe even tomorrow- I just have to figure out what approach to take.

EMAIL #1: They say “timing is everything” and this guy must have viewed my profile about half an hour too late. I felt that my narrative was too wordy so I cut out a lot of specifics. One of my comments was in regard to the fact that I cringe when guys needlessly mention their possessions in a conversation. I decided that information wasn’t essential, so I removed it and sent the revised edition to Match for approval. A short time later, I received this guy’s email and found this opening statement in his profile: I currently live between two townhouses He mentioned the cities they’re located in so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s indicating his availability to date women from a large area. Fine. But then he wrote: I own two cars and driving is not a major issue if there is a connection For the life of me, I can’t figure out why he needed to mention he has two cars. Is it to let me know that if he wears out one commuting to our dates he has a backup? Suggesting you’re wealthy is certainly an effective way for guys to meet women, but are those the kind of women guys are looking for? I like a rich dude as much as anybody but I like to discover he’s loaded- I don’t want him to tell me he is. I also found it odd that a statement in his email indicated he read at least half of my narrative, but I’m not sure if he read to the end because he didn’t include “falafel.” The rest of his profile sounded quite good, though he’s at the top of my age range (44). Moved to folder: Maybe if everybody else rejects me and my car breaks down.

EMAIL #2: This email had the subject, “coffee.” Why not “falafel”? Because nobody reads the damn narrative. He didn’t include a picture so he’s automatically history. Moved to folder: He’s wasting his time.

This is a little weird. One of the winks I received today came from the guy I emailed two days ago telling him I’m not interested. I know I gave credit yesterday to the other guy who winked at me after he emailed me, but that’s because I never responded to his email. This guy got a response and came back with a wink. Maybe it’s just to say he received my email and all is good. Or maybe I haven’t heard the last from him.