Day 2…

So it's officially day 2 after, I've put on my profile on the anonymous dating website. After about an hour of browsing through picture after picture and reading description after description (this has temporarily replaced freecell as my 'time waster at work' activity), I've come up with a few conclusions. (On a separate note, I do have to say half the fun of joining "social networking" or "dating" sites is just mowing through other people's profiles. It's like people watching on steroids) First of all, I am shocked that half of these users passed high school English. Even with Microsoft Word's grammar and spell check, their ability to butcher the English language was phenomenal. I mean, I can take a typo here and there, but some of these people are clueless. I'm not sure if I should laugh at or feel pity for a person that doesn't realize that wine (the beverage) and whine (Linkin Park lyrics) are two different words.

Anyways, after hours of searching, I found two likely candidates that. I emailed them both with what I thought to be friendly and funny emails. It has been about twelve hours. The website has a nice option of seeing the status of the emails you sent out. One was read, but not responded to. The other one was deleted.

Ouch.

I realize if my goal out of all of this is to actually get a date with a person, this might be a long and arduous process. Personal humiliation might be in the deck as well.

The website also has a nice little option of displaying who has viewed your profile as well. 48 hours in a two views. The obligatory Asian girls on the site had to check out my profile. To clarify, I am Asian. I do not actively pursue girls of Asian heritage because they are simply the same ethnicity as me. This comes as a shock to some people, but I actually consider personality to be the strongest characteristic that I look for in a girl (albeit personality with a great ass makes for a stronger candidate). I like intelligent, independent minded women with strong personalities. I like sass, I like wit. I like girls that are self assured. Frankly these are not qualities and traits that I have found in many Asian women.

But that does not deter the fact that people often try and set me up with Asian girls or Korean girls simply based on the fact that we are both Asian and that they think that "we would look good together." (Seriously, I don't know how many times I've been told or been set up this way. No joke, no exaggeration)

I smile. Tell them that I'm flattered, but I'm not interested. Thank them. I smile even though I feel like mismatched pair of shoes that has been put together simply because they are the same color. Yes. And that color is yellow. Even though yellow is the last color that I would describe my skin color as. (Dark, tanned flesh would be more accurate)

So 48 hours in, no updates, no emails and the obligatory views from the two other Asian people on the website.

Things are going so well.