Is this too much to ask?

Cheesy is back!

Allow me my moment of cheesiness, sometimes you need some good old cheesiness to restore the balance after a few months of cynicism.

2 and a half weeks of online dating and I'm just overwhelmed by the amount of dates I've been on... You guessed: ZERO. Not only I haven't been on dates, I haven't made it past stage 1 of 'guided communication', which is when I send seemingly interesting people 5 pre-fabricated questions, to which they regularly don't answer. 

I did get an email from someone who decided to skip the 'guided communication' and formulate his own sentences. I appreciate the effort, and I've rarely been so flattered (in fact, no had had ever called me very awesome before!), but I'm left questioning whether formulating his own sentences was really the best choice: 

Dear Erica Hi doing ?U looking very awesome and beautiful with your genuine smile,I want to get to know u more,am interested in you,if you can give me chance, to get to know me better ,i will be glad. Mike

...But then it apparently only takes a semi-sweet email (or two) and a bit of Africa/Latin America travel planning with someone who charmed me with Malawian sunsets and his way of being a white-man-in-Africa... and the cheesy mode kicks in. SWEET!

Positive thinking

Problem, (lack of) Solution

Problem identified: my list can be narrowed down to one single - and virtually impossible to locate in London - item:

Must be a culturally confused aid worker. 

(I doubt anything else will do).

Solution NOT identified.

List revision

I found someone who:

- Speaks 5 languages (or more, I can't keep up)

- Loves to travel and travels like a maniac

- Is London-based

- Has tons of interests and initiative: he likes to do stuff and does it (stuff does not mean drinking himself into oblivion in various places)

- Is social and capable of applying the right behaviour to a variety of social settings without external guidance

- Is straight, not a member of the clergy, funny, smart and can have intelligent informed conversations

And.. I'm not interested.. which can only mean I need to produce a new list:

- Must be an expat aid worker, must charm me with knowledge of exotic places and things, and must be idealistic beyond reasonable measure.

I might just be in the wrong part of the world...