Continued ~ma for bonny! And congrats to Drew on the upswing and continued ~ma to PixDesigns.

Serial, sorry.

Dear guy who sent me a wink on a popular personals site,

You seem reasonably intelligent yet you clearly didn't read my profile completely before sending me the wink. YOU contacted me. Being cautious, I responded only with something about the intellectual pursuits you mentioned in your wink message. When you asked if I was interested in meeting (cutting to the chase because apparently any actual exchange of epistles is something you see as a waste of your time), I said approximately when I'd have time for meeting but suggested that after reading YOUR profile, I didn't fit what you professed to be looking for. You then send me two separate messages. One saying that *maybe* you can handle my size and asking me my dress size and another one saying you can't handle my coloring and good luck to me. Presumably my coloring is exactly the same as it ever was in the photos you looked at on my profile.

I would recommend working on other sorts of intelligence than the type you say you possess. If you don't want to "waste" time communicating in written form, you might also want to save your time by not contacting people who are candid on their profile about possessing traits you say on *your* profile that you find unattractive.

Now I feel a bit shitty about myself and if you'd spent one extra minute of energy, that could have been avoided.

Signed,

Woman who should know better but keeps giving the benefit of the doubt

Ew, Spidra. And don't feel even a bit shitty about yourself - that was 100% on him, and you dodged a bullet getting shed of him in an hour or so without the agony of an in-person meeting. However unpleasant the wink and the follow-ups were, an actual meeting would have been exponentially worse.

what a jackass, Spidra. ugh. see...stories like those convince me even more that dating sites just aren't my beautiful cake.

In this world of more and more people being more and more connected you would think be would be more careful. I guess not. Sorry, Spidra. But it has nothing to do with you

Spidra, what an ass. Banish him from your spicy brains.

I do love gargoyles.

My dad has given me some good interview resources. Lots of work to do between now and then.

Very late to comment, but I sort of want to marry Daisy Jane's copywriter. Except it seems like she's taken. Hmph.

Very good news on the health fronts,all!

I am just now eating dinner and would like to lounge on the couch, but I have a post to strip. Ahrg. Did not plan this evening very well last night.

Hey, everybody! What are your favorite squash recipes? Thanks to my CSA, I now have six acorn squash and two red kuri squash, and I'm going to run out of ideas before I run out of squash.

I need to go to the doctor tomorrow. And start working on my annual review. And prepare for a presentation on Monday. Bah.

You can make butternut squash enchiladas with other squashes -- acorn squashes work well.