...but a long time ago, I signed up with e-harmony so I could take their personality profile...because, well, I like finding out what people who have never met me have to say about my identity. And at the time they told me "We're sorry; you have no matches." And so I promptly forgot I was signed up with e-harmony. Then last night and this morning I received a total of six invitations to begin communications with Canadians scattered across the country (although a good deal of them seem to be concentrated in Alberta...which is Canada's Country Music capital and automatically makes me extremely suspicious regarding potential "aesthetic" compatibility...).
Anyway, it's nice to be popular, but I feel that I need to get out. Internet dating services have worked great for one of my friends (and is sending her to Colorado, and how could you go wrong, there?), but for me...I doubt I could "fall in love" with someone without seeing how they interact with people besides me (ah yes, I place a high degree of importance on observation, because, according to my personality, people need to make sense to me, and so I feel I have to "figure them out" if I really want to understand them). The initial attraction I suppose could come, because (I think I've mentioned before), I find verbal word play rather sexy. But as far as a long-lasting relationship goes? I need context.
This is perhaps why I've never really been in favor of the blind set-up, either.
But I've brought this up before.
EDIT:
....and another invitation to begin communications. Did a group of Christian Albertans decide to register en masse??? This is scary...
And another thing: these "introductory emails" tell you what common interests you share. And certainly the common interests are ones that I share with quite a few of my close friends. But on paper they seem soooooo trivial and uninspiring: religious faith, music, friendship, and reading. Blah. What a boring person I am. What a boring person we all are.
Posted by funke at 10.11.06 8:59 | TrackBack | Posted to Introspective AnalysisI understand. COMPLETELY!!
Posted by: Carrie at 10.11.06 9:29Are you saying all six came from Alberta? It's the Jones sextuplets at it again!
Posted by: Patsy at 10.11.06 19:59Not all six. Just four. So I guess it's the Jones Quadruplets...
:)
Posted by: funke at 10.11.06 21:50