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My self-summary Propose an edit

I've met a wonderful woman, so I'm no longer seeking dates.

I have many qualities that women find irresistible. Somehow this has remained a well-kept secret, as evidenced by the lack of women swooning at my feet.

I'm your basic guy, reasonably handsome, with a few extra pounds in the form of a gut. I'm not fat, though I admit to a certain embonpoint.

My dress is casual. I'm not one who is equally comfortable in jeans or a little black dress. Of course, I'll dress up for formal events such as a funeral, if it's my funeral.

I play classical piano, love mathematics, speak foreign languages (in many countries, English is a foreign language). I speak, with descending fluency, Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish. I've also studied a few more exotic languages like Latin and Sanskrit, but really haven't had much opportunity to chat with anyone in those. Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. That means, "I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear". Mrs. Crotty, my Freshman Latin teacher, would be proud of me. Not sure why I didn't take Spanish like everyone else...

I play the piano reasonably well, for an amateur. George Bernard Shaw said that hell is filled with amateur musicians. It was unclear whether he meant they were being punished, or adding to the torment.

I have many other, widely varied interests. It's difficult to characterize what they are - eclectic, perhaps, New Age, technical, photography, music, literature...

I don't like sports. I really *hate* sports, in fact.

I love to ride my bicycle, both for the exercise and to help clear my mind.

I have two seriously weird cats, both strays. They're cute, highly affectionate, and one is actually intelligent (a quality not universally present in cats). The other one isn't as dumb as she looks, which was a great comfort. They're part of the package. Seriously, don't even bother if you hate cats, or if you're allergic. I'm allergic to them, too, so you'll get no sympathy about that.

BTW - I notice on the sidebar (to the right)[No, OK Cupid moved the farking sidebar] it says I own cats. This is compete nonsense. No one owns cats. If we are fortunate, we are graced with their presence.

I gave my TV set away to a friend some 30 years ago and haven't watched much TV since then. I consider it one of my better ideas. Taking apart my microwave was one of the other sort of ideas. That was one of those times when curiosity overcame common sense. Call it tuition. Once the cats started playing with the pieces, my poor microwave was doomed. I did get some really cool magnets out of the deal, though.

In my headline I said I was sensual. That is a lie, a shameless, bare-faced lie. It is nothing more than a fantasy, what I'd like to be true. the fact is, I am fairly clueless when it comes to women. I love them dearly - all my friends are women - but they remain lovely mysteries to me. On the other hand, I love to investigate mysteries of all kinds.

The woman I seek should be around my age, give or take, weight proportional to height, gentle and with a kind heart. Good looks are great, but a kind heart is essential. I love a brainiac. She ought to have a good sense of humor or I'm likely to become tiresome. I really love to laugh. I think it's great medicine. Unless, of course, you're laughing at some big guy on a Harley.

Here are some photos of myself:

Me with my cat, at the piano

My Rasputin period

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A professorial pose...

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

What I'm doing with my life...

Rediscovering who I am and what I want. Kind of lost touch with that somewhere along the way.

Late spring rain -
again I must become
just me.

- Hekigodo

I'm really good at Propose an edit

I'm really good at...
...pretty much whatever I put my mind to. I know, sounds arrogant... It's not so much skill as stubbornness.

Playing classical piano.

Talking to people.

Making people laugh.

Making music.

Comforting people who are hurting.

Befriending feral cats and people.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me...

...I don't really know. Ask them.

I'd love to say they all notice my commanding presence or my scintillating personality, but the truth may be more like, they see my zipper's down or I've got spinach caught between my teeth.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

My favorite (A) books, (B) movies, (C) music, and (D) food...

A. So many favorites - thousands to choose from. Favorite authors are Donald Knuth, Lama Surya Das, William James, C.G. Jung, Poe, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, O. Henry... Some "sword and sorcery" stuff by Jim Butcher or Mike Carey.

B. The Others; Lord of the Rings (the whole shebang); Narnia; pretty much any martial arts movie, even the ones where the lips keep moving after the guy stops talking (or vice versa); Constantine.

C. Classical, mostly, along with rock, blues, metal, Ragtime, Russian romantic music, and various others. I play classical music and Scott Joplin on the piano.

D. Ethnic - Mexican, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian... Lamb Biryani, orange chicken, veggie burritos, pad thai, lasagna...

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

The six things I could never do without...

I've learned that there is precious little I *can't* do without, but that some things make life worthwhile...

Love, food, water, people, cats, health.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

I spend a lot of time thinking about...

...why the wealthiest country in the world allows their homeless and other unfortunates to sleep under bridges and in the alleys.

How we can promise to care for our soldiers, and then refuse them treatment so that they're often the ones who wind up living in the streets, homeless, addicted, or mentally ill.

What I need and want in a long-term relationship.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

On a typical Friday night I am...

Riding my bicycle, working out, browsing around on the Internets, playing my piano, reading, programming, refurbishing old computers, playing with my cats...

Mostly I spend them alone. I don't care for bars and "meat markets". I like to just hang with one or two people at a time.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here...

I have problems recognizing peoples' faces - it's called "prosopagnosia" or faceblindness. I have a Website about it at Faceblind.com.

I actually bought a rhinestone collar for my cat. I used to laugh at people who did things like this. But she does look cute in it...

You should message me if Propose an edit

You should message me if...

... you're OK with a pen pal.

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