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Skeptical? Me? Never.
How will rating myself match me with anyone? “I do things according to plan.” “I feel unable to deal with things” “I often carry the conversation to a higher level” “I usually wait for others to lead the way” “I get angry easily” I can be described on either end of the spectrum on any given day. I can be on both ends of the spectrum on any same day. So, what am I supposed to do? Mark myself as “somewhat” for all of them. Does that mean the person I get will be as middle of the road as me? Is that what I want? Who’s to say…
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And in conclusion….
Day 6: Same, same….different day!I do get a call from the “quip” guy and we set up a coffee for later in the week, finally this process is moving somewhere.Otherwise, I get a response from an ex-boyfriend wishing me luck, another good friend offering a reference and two other gentlemen that I already know as distant acquaintances.I’m beginning to realize what a very small town Portland is.It is refreshing, though, to see that it is mostly normal, lonely people looking for the same thing…..some sort of deeper connection,that use Craig’s List as a resource. Day 7: I join about 800 other crazy people in downtown Portland to run the Urban…
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CL Experiment Continues….
Day 3: I’m no longer tied to Craig’s List as my confidence builder, which is a good thing since men obviously have such short attention spans they can’t look past the first page of ads.You guessed it, no new responses!Luckily I get busy with work and don’t have time to be on email for the rest of the day. Day 4: The staleness has set in…I do get one humorous response and since he must have had to look through 3 pages to get to my ad, I reward him for his perserverance with a reply.We exchange a few quips and then phone numbers, things are looking up…there may actually…
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The Great Craig’s List Experiment
The Great Craig’s List Experiment: Day 1: I post my first ever Craig’s List personal ad, making sure it’s in the Women seeking Men and NOT casual encounters.I go for a brief top ten list of what I’m looking for and top ten of who I am.It goes live about 9:30 on a Sunday night, but I’m too tired to stay up and see if I get any responses that evening so I go to sleep.Wow, am I shizzle…I wake and open my email to approximately 25 responses to my ad, my confidence soars.Upon brief scanning, a few even look promising so I embark on the not so nice elimination…
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THE ONE
Two people were casually commenting on how they hadn’t found THE ONE yet. While casual, there was a tone of anxiety that plagued the conversation. That tone made the words hang in the air before me, enough so that I could pull myself to the sidelines of that conversation and reflect before I made a stance about what I thought. What did I think? What’s the term THE ONE suppose to mean and who does THE ONE suppose to refer to. Well, I’ve heard it enough and have honestly used the phrase myself in the past to know they meant THE ONE is THE ONE person who is the soul…
