Match Update

Well, I haven't gotten any response from the hot Estonian babe yet, so I'll have to stick to my actual dating activity.

I haven't gotten any really crappy e-mails like this one, but I have gotten a few weird ones. The best one had no subject line and the only thing it said was "hollow." Not hello. Not holla. Hollow.

I'm still getting about one e-mail or wink a day on average, which seems about right for a guy. Most women I've talked to get between four and five times that many but I don't think as many women use the carpet bombing approach to Match. Lately it's been pretty slim pickings, a lot of people who have a profile that consists of one short paragraph. C'mon people. You would have to be serious hot for me to respond to one paragraph. Other people clearly did not read my profile. One winker's profile read: "Faith is SO important to me. It is the most important aspect of finding a mate. I want someone who can challenge me in my faith and bring me closer to God." That's great but, um, did you even OPEN my profile?

Anyway I'm trying to decide what to do with my profile when I'm in Denmark. I'm tempted to leave it up, so I can meet the requirements of the get-six-months-free-if-you-are-still-a-single-loser-after-six-months offer. Hey, it's still better than the Quizno's if-you-don't-like-your-sandwich-we'll-give-you-another-one offer.

Here are the dates so far:

• The first date was with an Armenian ballet dancer who worked as a French medical translator. She was really nice, interesting, although a little hung-up with the Turkish genocide of Armenians during World War I.
• The second and third dates were with a law student who did modern dance. Good dates but not a lot of spark.
• There was another date with a fellow MBA student which went fine, but there was not a ton of spark there either. There was going to be a second date but at the last moment she forgot that he had to pick up her roommate at the airport. Then she forgot to call me back. Classy.
• The best date so far was with the lionologist. Yeah that's right, a lionologist. I have already nicknamed her Texas, because she has a cute little Texas accent. Really the only problem here is that for the next three months one of us seems to be out of the state at all times. I'll let you know.
• Frog Lady is the last woman of note. We haven't had a date but have exchanged a series of very long e-mails. She is 27, and it looks like I am the first person to point out that she was apparently named after a family of sub-Saharan running frogs. She dropped off the radar a week ago which made me kind of sad, but she just wrote saying she was frustrated with Match and had turned off her profile but to "keep in touch."