Me: Wealthy, Athletic, Sensitive, Rugged Good Looks… You : GSOH
A while back (actually, quite a while back) I signed up with this dating site because I fancied one of the chicks on it. She was from Holland - lecturing at Oxford University at the time, which seemed ideal because I used to live in Oxford, I’ve been to university, I like Dutch girls. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing in the end. She decided she’d had enough of being hassled by weirdos and abandoned the whole thing before I even met her, which was a shame because I’m more or less greatish, and everyone else is rubbish and why would she have them when she could have me? Hmm? What’s the matter with her? I don’t understand it. Mindless fucking bimbo. Unbelievable
Anyway, I found this earlier - it’s the “about me” blurb… and not bad as these things go - certainly not as bad as some of the subsequent ones I’ve written. I’d go out with me. If I wasn’t a bloke, or if I was gay, and a bit tasteless.
Anyway, here it is:
Kiwi ratbag of uncertain pedigree. Disgraced former guitar player and half-arsed best-seller writer. Quite good at drawing owls. Can Ski, can’t cook (well, doesn’t like to try really). From a large sprawling and mildly eccentric family, all of whom live in NZ. (not hobbits)
I’m currently working as a freelance software developer (ie: sit in the sun and look out the window at the sea all day). Idly contemplating doing something else, but I’m really good at this stuff and it is quite nice being useful. It’s an entrepreneurial lottery ticket of sorts as well which adds a certain sparkle that noteably absent when I worked in the Nike warehouse.
For fun… recently, whirlwind trips to Europe, back to NZ once a year or so. An ideal life in many ways, only I’m doing it on my own.
Loves : Cats, Sunshine, Elliot Smith, The Cohen Brothers, unnervingly random Asian cinema, travelling, Lake Rotopounamu, Henry Wriothesley, evenings, sushi, that statue of Anonymous in Budapest, language, songs in C that drop down to Em, mountains, C-beams glittering in the dark, Pina-colada and getting caught in the rain etc.
Dislikes : Wires (a blessing and a curse), queues, ringtones, lifestyle-advertising, MTV.
Interested in : History, politics, people, art.. echos and interference patterns.
Not terribly interested in : Shower-curtain-rings, motor-vehicle-insurance, the comparative merits of cellphones, celebrities
