I gave in and changed my status to "dating" since far too many people seem to have a very WRONG idea about what the "looking for" selections mean, and it's the least wrong of the available choices.

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Martyrdom has gotten old, so I'd like to try actual happiness for a change. Now, it's only a rumour, but I've heard happiness is out there somewhere if you look hard enough, which is what has brought me here, looking for you.

You'll soon find that I have a sarcastic sense of humour and an unyielding ability for fun in almost any situation, and yes, I do currently look like I do in these pictures: So far I've never failed to recognize myself in the mirror.

I'm intelligent and interested in nearly everything except sports and reality TV, and you'll soon find I'm a verbal free-spirit; particularly at the most inappropriate of times when it's most likely to make you laugh despite yourself.

It would be nice to meet someone who can get by on their own financially and who can appreciate that just because I'm good in bed doesn't mean we can't be good friends as well, and maybe {gasp} see if something more develops; so please quell your urge to run at the first sign of happiness just because you get those special feelings when you're with me. I know meeting a "good one" is scary, but do you really want to settle for less yet again just because it's emotionally safer? (That's rhetorical by the way.) I've been guilty of doing that too, but that's in the past and it's time to take a chance on a "good one" again.

I'm looking for a woman who can be my friend and who is free to be more than just friends if the chemistry is right, and you need to be someone without a lot of rules about when it's okay to do this or that, because life is too short to not seize every opportunity to enjoy the things that make us happy, even if only for the moment.

Now, it's okay to hope for something much more than that, because I do, but we need to develop a good friendship first. I know it's hard to resist "encouraging" things to move along faster (with a sledge hammer sometimes), but I believe we must let our relationship develop at its own pace or it simply won't last, so please leave your sledgehammer at home. After all, we can always wait to get married on our second date.

That being said, if there could be something more, I won't sit back and let time pass us by "waiting" forever until we're both 100% certain. Eventually we must close our eyes, hold hands, and take the plunge together to find out for sure. Only time will tell what will happen; however, we haven't even met yet, so why don't you invite me to dinner and we'll see where that leads us?

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note: Please include a clear picture of your face if there isn't one on your profile. Maybe you have a really good reason, but try as I might, I just can't think of a legitimate one if you are really here to meet someone.

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addendum: In case you're the sort of person who reads them, I believe the "Self Control" part of the "Compatibility Assessment" is a little off-base, and the "Preferred Expressions of Affection" in the "Needs Assessment" is nearly the opposite of how I am and what I want.

errata: If you've taken the seduction test, was what it showed you radically different from what is written in the link it gives you to send to others? Mine was.

I don't know about you, but I don't meet my friends for coffee and then interview them for a couple of hours, so I'm nixing that from now on since not only don't I have that kind of spare time, frankly, it just doesn't seem to work, unless, of course, all you want to do is to check someone out before having sex.

What I'd rather do is meet somewhere and talk for a little while, but only long enough to make sure we're meeting who we thought we were meeting, THEN we're going to actually DO SOMETHING like go to the movies or bowling or get something to eat or have sex for five hours... ANYTHING that actual friends might do in real life, and THEN we can hang out and talk afterwards. This way, even if things don't work out, at least we (hopefully) had fun.

By the way, I find talking about (or watching) sports or so-called "reality" shows REALLY boring.

"What do you mean you find sports boring?"

{yawn} What's that? Sorry. I fell asleep. Someone must have been talking about sports.

Regardless, we'll both decide what we're going to do together, right friend?