Does it suck to be me? The jury is still out

Here’s my take on the glamorous world of eDating to date.

You can take that statement both literally and figuratively.

I’ve been on eHarmony for almost a year now and have only been matched 129 times.

You may think that sounds like a lot but remember there are approximately 4,325,287 participants of which one-third must be male. That’s 129 matches out of 1,441,762.33 potential matches.

That’s like 0%. That’s less than 0%.

Lord knows I’m not a numbers gal (I am in communication after all) but that figure is in negative territory. Can it really be me?

And why is it that out of my 129 matches, 127 reside in Alaska? One lives in Hawaii. The last in Washington State. Am I really not compatible with anyone in the Eastern, Central or Mountain Time Zones?

While eHarmony is less than inspiring , Match.com is exhausting.

It’s like the Wild, Wild West of the eDating world. All this wink-ing & favorite-ing & Top 5-ing. Thank God there isn’t a “pinch” button because I think I’d be black and blue.

I’ve only been on Match for a few weeks and I have already been viewed 190 times, winked at 34 times and have been sent 19 emails. So I feel the odds, if not the Gods, might favor me on this one.

My pal Angie just turned me on to sciconnect.com. which according to Forbes magazine is “A brainy love connection catering to those with a passion for science and nature.”

This is straight from their web site:

Why are we here? The world is a crowded Petri dish, and yet for those of an intellectual bent who happen to be single, it’s not easy, especially past university age, to find that certain microbe for a great symbiotic relationship. Enter Science Connection.

I couldn’t resist.

Here’s a taste:

107737,48,S,178cm,165, Physics prof; teach thermo, quantum mechs, medical imaging. I bike, ski, hike, travel the world, love classical and folk music, write fiction, esp. satire. I’m shy & introspective in person, expansive in prose. Like to meet science women with similar non-sci interests. Kids OK, especially in their curious years. Cheney, WA

Indeed.

Should a grown man reveal that kids are OK, especially in their “curious” years? And should a woman with a kid (in curious years or not) date him?

Am I thinking of joining?

Let’s just say so far the only real date I have been asked out on was by “prison guy” (works there not incarcerated as far as I know) who mixes tenses like nobody’s business.

At moments like this, being single doesn’t seem to be too bad of an option after all.

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