Apologies for the absence. Work has been taxing. Most nights, I wind up with a foam container of Woorijip by-the-pound, trying to sneak bites in on the late ride home to Sunset Park.
I recently learned the phrase "Christmas cake" -- have you heard of it? Apparently, that's what unmarried women over the age of 25 are called in Japan. Because no one wants you after the 25th. (Tadum-TCH!)
I know I'm a workaholic in part because I'm such a bachelorette. To make matters worse, a friend bought me a one month subscription to an online dating site and, let me tell you, it is grim out there. Bleak with a capital EEK. A few choice e-mail contacts have involved:
A.) The Eucharist who spoke of Jesus's consecrated bread and cup of wine, and how important it is to abstain from flesh offered to idols;
B.) The Japanese-speaking white man who "likes Asian looks" but doesn't want any "grumpy" Asians;
C.) Creative spellings (ackward, optomisitic, specail) in extremely uncreative profiles (I want to hold you, let's listen to the rain together, I like to hang out with my friends for fun.)
I'm judgy, but I don't think I'm being too judgy here. Between that and the pervs that e-mail me with offers for sexual favors, I'm feeling a bit like a marshmallow peep on the discount rack in July.
Whatever. I need therapy. Or a good trepanation.
No trepanning! (Makes it hard to find hats.) You'll find someone.
oof. i feel your pain.
I hope I've spoken too soon.
i did e-dating for a month and couldn't open my inbox w/o meeting white dudes with yellow fever. if i saw the words ju jitsu and buddhism in his profile i knew i had to run away.
I philipina friend who became (sadly) expert at online dating created an alias profle. It was designed to entice the "yellow fever" types (and played up the stereotype). If some dude wrote to the "yellow fever" profile, she could safely dismiss him when he also wrote to her real profile.
Don't let it get you down.
Marshmallow peeps are best when they've been allowed to age a bit!
Being picky helps you get the best. No worries.
Also I have to say to the above (and yourself) respectfully that not all [non-Asian] guys who do martial arts or ... whatever ... have yellow fever! A friend of mine surprised me when we first met; I thought he had yellow fever but it turns out he dates people of all races. He just happens to also study jiu jitsu (and when I met him, was dating an Asian girl). I don't know. That's a big topic that maybe I shouldn't tread on. :)