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Total profile views: 1961 (55 since day 50)

New received emails: 2 unsolicited, 1 solicited

New sent emails: 2 new, 1 reply

New winks: 1

Optimism level: They’re all either too anxious or not anxious enough. Goldilocks not happy.

I fell behind a bit because Friday’s migraine never quite went away and came back full force the next day. As a result, about 34 hours passed in which I hadn’t responded to George Costanza’s previous email. In a second email he wrote: Just saying hey!…hehe On the one hand, I like guys who don’t play games but on the other hand, I don’t think the passage of a day and a half really necessitates a check-up email from someone I haven’t met yet. It was a tad too anxious. I responded with an apology, explaining I’d suffered from a migraine for the last two days and said: At least I hope it was a migraine and not something worse. I wrote that because I’d never experienced a migraine for two consecutive days, not because I wasn’t familiar with what a migraine headache is. His reply included two paragraphs on what triggers migraines, what worsens the pain and how much migraines suck- all this apparently based on second-hand information he’d received from friends. Something about that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. We have tentative plans to get together on Wednesday and I promised I’d call him in the next day or two to finalize the details. I think it’s pretty obvious I’m not too optimistic about Costanza, but I really do need to get the first date for this go ’round out of the way.

SENT EMAILS: I wrote to two new guys- not particularly good prospects. The first is a guy I’d added to my favorites list when I tried Match almost three years ago. I wonder if he’s been around all that time. He sounds like a good match for me but it’s pretty clear he’s not looking for a Caucasian woman. I figured I’d write him anyway. If nothing else, at least I can remove him from my list. The second guy isn’t really my type physically but he’s agnostic, doesn’t want kids and his profile was witty. He even mentioned an aversion to emoticons! I got the impression he’s the type I’d either get along with famously or horribly.

EMAIL #1: This one’s not bad looking, though his only picture features him shirtless on a boat. But his brief email was somewhat incoherent. He has a good grasp of punctuation but he transposed some words and made a reference that makes absolutely no sense to me. I took a look at his profile and it was the same thing. What he said sounded all right- when I could understand it. However this part was clear:

Please no BBW’s (just my preference). As I stated, I have no children. If you do please make sure that your ex is not obsessed with his children knowing mommy dates (been there done that).

Both statements just seemed incredibly lame to include in a profile. Moved to folder: No major flaws, just too many little ones.

EMAIL #2: This guy sounded way too excited to meet me, especially in light of the fact he lives in New York. But I have to mention something he wrote in his email:

To futher intrigue you I have a very very silly but incredibly effective dating game type of question. I can learn more about you from this one question than from any other single one. May I ask you?

I’ll admit, I’m kind of curious what the question is, mostly because I’m guessing it’s corny and tells him nothing about me. But I’m not so curious I’d bother to ask what it is. Moved to folder: I’d take the real Chuck Woolery, but not a knock off.