The (not so) Wonderful World of JDate

So after some initial resistance I signd up for a JDate account today. Inital thougts 1) I'm a superficial bastard and 2) there are slim pickins'! Anyway, geting back out there and scrapin around with some new friends might be a really fun new thing... we'll see...I'm finding that i'm more interested in women who are a lot younger than I am but at the same time i'm very concerned with seemingly like that "creepy old guy". I think what it is is that my "emotional age" is a lot younger than my actaul age. I don't wanna put up with the ignorance and immaturity of a woman still in college but older women closer to my age seem to have shit too together. I guess i don't want to be with someone who "world weary" and old but at the same time someone who is my age. I guess I want someone like me - a person with a retarded emotional core.

I have no Gay-dar

Its official - I have no mechanism to identify gay people. After one false-positive and one case of complte oblivioun i am totally sure of this. More to this . . .

Personal Hygiene

Hygiene. What is it? Staying clean. True. But in my mind there are a short list of "rules" regarding the matter.

Shaving. Important, yes. More important though - removing hair from places it shouldn't be but are plainly visible (Ears, nose, back, etc). So being clean shaven is good but, more importantly, get rid of that rouge hair on your forehaed or that long one coming out of your nostril. Point: out of place hairs can be very distracting to those around you.

Smell. Fragrence vs. odor. Be careful with this - perfume or colonge can be your worst enemy. Use very sparingly. Smelling too much of anything (even if it is a "good" smell) is disasterous. Point: shower frequently but don't freak out and feel compelled to use colonge to mask your smell between the gym and the bathroom.

Physical Health Cycle

I've always viewed my physical health as having an intrinsic cycle. Not just the typical seasonal cold and allergy symptoms but also exercise and diet. Being accutley aware of this cyclical trend has helped me stay healthy, avoid injury, and at times lose weigh. For example, recently I started to feel a little run-down and I decided to stop daily going to the gym for a little more than a week. In a way I could tell this was one of my cyclical changes in my body. Going from "fat" to "thin" isn't a straight line and along the way progess can seem to vary from very slow to very fast. Maybe there are just a series of psyilogical thersholds that need to be individually reached to get to a piont where you can actaully see a change in physique... i dunno.