Day 2 - the day after yesterday.

I am popular, or at least have made a good photo choice, since I have over 200 'looks' and about 12 pages of dudes who are out shopping for everything from a 'lady' as Emily put it, to true love, to that booty call. Seriously, if you say you're not into a booty call and want something serious, you just wrote that for someone else's benefit.

Also, btw, I think the word 'Lady' as some like, or possibly the more diminutive 'lady' should always be pronounced in one of two voices: Leon Phelps and his Scantuary or Kenny Rogers from his song.

So, as of early this afternoon, I have been winked at more than 5 times today, been written to by three guys. One was an instant no, being chubby and from Boston. Totally not into chubby guys (generally not too built guys either), and I hate hate hate everything from Boston except the clam chowda.

My first (of the three emails): comes from some random dude in some town I've never heard of. Well, I've heard of it, but only in passing as the local nightly news starts. He says something about my looks and how not normal I am, which admittedly I am not. Then he goes on to crack a joke and ha ha ha after it - never a good sign. In surfing his profile, his pictures make him look like someone's dad - which he totally is. I generally don't mind if you have kids, but in addition to laughing at your own lame joke, you look like Frank Black from the old tv show Millenium (sunken face Lance Henriksen and not the lead singer of the Pixies - not that I'd be down with him either). So, no thank you Mr. Henriksen...

Second email was from a guy that winked at me and I winked back. While he's not overly attractive (kind of a chubby Ryan Reynolds), his profile is pretty damn funny and witty. His email was also funny and witty and included references to locals not understanding bad weather. I wrote back and am awaiting the 'generic rejection' that match.com can offer... or not. He did mention he had today off, but maybe he's spending it a more productive format than I am (trying to read 5 chapters for a class I'm not even really taking listening to electronica music on the TV, why do I do this to myself?).

Third email I have yet to respond to. It's a not bad looking gent in a similar state of education to mine (almost done with an advanced degree). His email was long and sweet and ended with asking me to coffee since he assumed we go to the same school (which we do not). He also was cute in that he made certain to preface it as 'only coffee' and not a date or any other form of such. He's also the only one with the cajones to kind of ask about my 'separated' status, not directly, so I'm trying to get work done (unsuccessfully) and write him back telling him this week for coffee is out, but possibly next week. I am pretty uncertain about this since it's been 12+ years for me on the dating scene (even if it's only coffee). Guess I have to psych myself up for this.

Oh, in the time I've been writing, I've gotten another wink, from some random dude in another town I've never been to/heard of. Oh, I also seem to be attracting a lot of blue collar guys who run some kind of auto-based business... why? because I mention about how I'm good at fixing household things? I guess so... where do you start a conversation with that? I guess I'm looking to buy a car sometime soon, maybe I'll keep that in mind when the mechanics continue to write me.

I was also IM'd last night via match.com, primarily because I forgot I had it up and stayed on too long. Had one rather uncomfortable talk with some guy who used my name (once I told him) overly too much... How are you, Sara? What are you doing tomorrow, Sara? Can I come to your house and eat your pets, Sara? Once again, if you remind me of HAL from 2001, I'm not going to be interested. Plus, as Emily and I agreed, if you're over a certain age and never been married, there's likely some kind of 'problem' with you. That guy's overuse of my name, and his photos with his parents screamed 'I live at home and still have my virginity' or something... he also used the word 'lovers' in his profile, which is as bad as 'lady'. The other IM was from an interesting, well-travelled guy, but a few years younger than me. Might turn into something, might not...

So, one chubby Van Wilder, one local student of similar age, and one younger guy who's in grad school but attractive and well-travelled in the current mix. All of my starter emails to other guys have not been returned, and sadly, foriegn dude who is out of the country hasn't written me back (sad face!). I hold hope that he's just busy in his foreign country and not turned off by the more recent pictures I've posted... seriously, I've lost some weight since then!

Additionally, one of my classmates from my school program was listed as a potential top 5 today... I trust match.com very little.