new age sap, Victor, Kofi Annan, & Walter Mondale
So there was a tarot card reader at the Halloween party I went to. I normally wouldn’t think much of a tarot card reader at a party at a very loud bar, but she owns a well-known bookstore here and she is William’s mother’s friend. She told me I have internal obstacles to having relationships and that I should read this book “Calling in the One.” I recently bought some other books on amazon so I ordered this one too. It came a few days ago and I started to read it yesterday. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish it because it’s really hokey new-agey a la Marianne Williamson. She does have a lot of interesting quotes from famous people in it though. But the more I read it, the more I want to vomit.
This brings me to another topic. There’s this guy whose profile I had seen on okcupid.com (free dating site) when I did a search for the word "vegetarian.” I thought he was cute, but didn’t contact him because he lives in Buford, which is about 50 miles away, and also for another reason that has to do with my most-things-new-agey aversion. He had written that he rarely drinks. It’s not that I have to date someone who drinks, but a vegetarian who rarely drinks, well that made me think of two things. One is that he was a new age hippie like all the people in Earthsave. That would just never work out. My other thought was that if he wasn’t a hippie, he was a health food fanatic. Bad memories of Eric surfaced. Obviously, eating healthy is good, but I’m not going to give up alcohol or processed foods or become a raw foodist who refuses to go to the doctor when I’ve been really sick for two weeks and am not getting any better.
This was all me being judgmental, and I shouldn’t have been. I like to believe I’m not judgmental, but it’s so much easier to be on the internet when you’re only looking at a profile. But that combined with the distance thing…anyway, I got an email from him on Friday. Why not respond if he’s made the effort? He is cute after all :-) After exchanging a few messages, we decided to meet. Ironically, I was free that night because some other guy had blown me off. I’d just rather meet someone right away and get to know them that way. Email is o.k. once you actually know someone, but the whole point of dating is to meet in person, right?
Long story short, it must have been in the cards (although not William’s mother’s friend’s cards, apparently). I really like him…and he’s not a kumbaya singing hippie or health food Nazi. I can’t believe I actually met someone that 1) I’m attracted to, 2) is vegetarian and 3) likes me back.
An interesting note on Kumbaya from Wikipedia:
After a private farewell dinner on December 5, 2006 at the White House for outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (Secretary-General 1996 to 2006), soon-to-resign U.S. Ambassador John Bolton joked that "nobody sang 'Kumbaya.'" When told of Bolton's comment, Annan laughed and asked: "But does he know how to sing it?"
I’m willing to bet he doesn’t. And for those of you who don’t know, Kofi Annan went to my college! Not at the same time as I did, but still! And so did Walter Mondale, although he didn’t actually graduate. It was too expensive for him so he transferred to the U of M after two years.
So, a little less than two days and I’ll be seeing him again. Victor, that is, not Walter Mondale.
This brings me to another topic. There’s this guy whose profile I had seen on okcupid.com (free dating site) when I did a search for the word "vegetarian.” I thought he was cute, but didn’t contact him because he lives in Buford, which is about 50 miles away, and also for another reason that has to do with my most-things-new-agey aversion. He had written that he rarely drinks. It’s not that I have to date someone who drinks, but a vegetarian who rarely drinks, well that made me think of two things. One is that he was a new age hippie like all the people in Earthsave. That would just never work out. My other thought was that if he wasn’t a hippie, he was a health food fanatic. Bad memories of Eric surfaced. Obviously, eating healthy is good, but I’m not going to give up alcohol or processed foods or become a raw foodist who refuses to go to the doctor when I’ve been really sick for two weeks and am not getting any better.
This was all me being judgmental, and I shouldn’t have been. I like to believe I’m not judgmental, but it’s so much easier to be on the internet when you’re only looking at a profile. But that combined with the distance thing…anyway, I got an email from him on Friday. Why not respond if he’s made the effort? He is cute after all :-) After exchanging a few messages, we decided to meet. Ironically, I was free that night because some other guy had blown me off. I’d just rather meet someone right away and get to know them that way. Email is o.k. once you actually know someone, but the whole point of dating is to meet in person, right?
Long story short, it must have been in the cards (although not William’s mother’s friend’s cards, apparently). I really like him…and he’s not a kumbaya singing hippie or health food Nazi. I can’t believe I actually met someone that 1) I’m attracted to, 2) is vegetarian and 3) likes me back.
An interesting note on Kumbaya from Wikipedia:
After a private farewell dinner on December 5, 2006 at the White House for outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (Secretary-General 1996 to 2006), soon-to-resign U.S. Ambassador John Bolton joked that "nobody sang 'Kumbaya.'" When told of Bolton's comment, Annan laughed and asked: "But does he know how to sing it?"
I’m willing to bet he doesn’t. And for those of you who don’t know, Kofi Annan went to my college! Not at the same time as I did, but still! And so did Walter Mondale, although he didn’t actually graduate. It was too expensive for him so he transferred to the U of M after two years.
So, a little less than two days and I’ll be seeing him again. Victor, that is, not Walter Mondale.