common app

making profiles for dating websites is no joke. they need a universal template...like the common app or something. eesh.

sab tells me i shouldn't depend only on him and mrs. sab, to keep getting out there. well, "getting out there" is a whole stinking lot of effort. as is trying to make my eyes symmetrical with the eyeliner. (serious coordination needed for that one - almost easier to catch a ball with the sun in my eyes).

ever since dk told me about some beta website for an elitist dating site (ie. only open to alums from top schools, though a quick perusing of limited profiles made me question what the definition of "top school" was) ... i found other sites that advertise the same thing. apparently this is not a new concept, and people have tried to market the need. except it seems to be underdeveloped, and just a pool of profiles and a search engine.

too bad eharm doesn't have an elitist function.

people will judge my stance, but...if you're an ivy (or equivalent) grad who is dating/married to another ivy (or equiv) grad...then...yeah. no leg to stand on. come to think of it, most of my elite-school friends ended up with someone of comparable academic pedigree.

and with that...i really regret not having met someone in college. perhaps i should have tried harder to be "marketable", and spent less energy trying to kick butt and change the world. every feminist out there will scream at me, but...sometimes i start to believe my chauvinist uncles who told my dad that it was worthless educating and developing me into an overachiever because i'd never get married, and then my life would be useless.

well. my life isn't useless. but it's a little empty. maybe instead of learning how to take a hit, i should have learned how to put on makeup. maybe instead of writing constitutions and trying to be a pioneer, i should have learned how to be fashionable. maybe instead of learning how to run faster, i should've learned how to walk in heels.

no, heels suck. as do these profiles.


random note 1 - that song down, down, down. don't know why i like it so much, but i do. down like the economy...too funny.

random note 2 - when i take away the self-consciousness and embarassment...i don't mind low maintenance dressing up, going out, drinking, dancing, etc. (that last one is a big if on the self conscious meter though). i basically missed out on my teen years because i was studying, and on my twenties because i was training. it totally depends who i'm with - but if i were dating someone who liked to do such things, i think i would go and do them. but note to self: drinking on mondays leads to unproductive tuesdays...

random note 3 - how i met your mother is slowly becoming my new favorite show. the friends era had to get replaced eventually...15 years later, maybe it will be. legendary.

random note 4 - i was looking through some pictures...man, i looked pretty good as a welterweight. that's probably the most lean and athletic i've ever been in my life. i wonder if i'll ever be like that again.