Ideas wanted

If anyone has any innovative ideas, please let me know asap. To date what I have tried* includes, but is not limited to, the following:

- Speaking to the guy in question

- Not speaking to the guy in question

- Calling/texting

- Not calling/not texting

- Emailing/Facebook messaging

- Not emailing/Not Facebook messaging

- Stalking online

- Not stalking online

- Asking the guy out

- Not asking the guy out

- Trying to get the guy to ask me out

- Blushing

- Not blushing

- Being uninterested

- Being mildly interested

- Being somewhat interested

- Being interested

- Being very interested

- Being obsessed

- Being in love

- Being nice

- Being a bitch

- Being a friend

- Not having sex

- Having sex

- Knowing the guy well

- Knowing the guy a bit

- Not knowing the guy's name

- Knowing the guy's name

- Not knowing the guy's face

 And because you shouldn't limit yourself to a type, what I have tried includes but is by no means limited to:

- Coworker

- Classmate

- Friend of friend

- Friend of brother

- Person met randomly

- Expat aid worker

- Indigenous person in aid work land

- Italian

- Italy obsessed

- Uninterested in Italy

- Unable to locate Italy on a map

- Illiterate

- Literate

- With a master's degree

- Private sector worker

- Public sector worker

- Development worker

- White, black, Asian, Latino

- Rich, poor, no notion of his income

- Monolingual, bilingual, multilingual

- The full range from turn-around-in-the-street hot to turn-around-in-the-street ugly

The list goes on but quite frankly it's not improving my mood! :)

The 'type' & the dead fish look

Episode #1:
- ...and I have no idea why I was so fascinated with this guy!

- How many languages does he speak?

- Uhmm.. he runs a language school..

- ...

Episode #2:

- Did you want to go outside with the guys and I'll join you later?

- No, it's fine, we can go later

- Did you like the guy?

- Which one?

- The tall one

- Uh? No! What? You're making stuff up!

- ...

- How did you know I liked the guy?

- I don't know, just the dead fish look behind your sunglasses

- Ah, right...

Online dating

The online dating website EHarmony tells me it is responsible for almost 5% of all marriages in the US. After debating for a long time about whether this online dating thing is for me, I thought: it's good to be open to new experiences, let me pay 40 pounds to shop for men online!

So you need to answer a few question to get started:

- What ethnicity are you willing to consider in a partner? White/Caucasian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi (who knew these were different ethnicities), Chinese, Japanese, Black/African/Caribbean (who knew these were all the same), Arab/Middle Eastern, Other. Where's the box for: I would like to open a debate about the definition of ethnicity? 

- What religious belief are you willing to accept in a partner? Chrstian: sure. Muslim: not ideal, but speaking from experience I love my South Asian Muslim men (not sure they love me). Hindu: why not. Sikh: not sure I can deal with the turban, much less with the knife in the turban. New Age: now you're really pushing your luck. Spiritual but not religious: oh man, you don't want to know how I feel about these spiritual but not religious types.

- How much does this statement apply to you: It would be great to not have to answer 793 questions to meet someone? very much

Personality traits

Important discovery that may come in handy when going through life: Loser and Asshole are not mutually exclusive personality traits. I owe this discovery to the one who 'doesn't want a relationship with me but his offer of being friends with benefits still stands'.

12 = 27

Back in Italy for a few days and going through my old journals I noticed that I was very sweet and romantically inclined when I was 12 or 16. I was also already meeting the EXACT same type of men who "really like me but" (it's always good to start young!). Thank God a much nobler virtue, sarcasm, has replaced the sweetness of my youth. It makes everything a lot funnier ("some people are lucky and meet the man of their lives at 15, the rest of us have funny stories" cit.). 

Otherwise, just like when I was 12, I am apparently incapable of:

- Carrying out a simple conversation with someone I (inexplicably) find attractive

- Maintaining my normal face color while saying hi, bye and other very personal things

- Avoid getting myself in absolutely embarrassing situations where I look like a complete idiot

- Getting all the above mentioned nonsesne out of my mind

The up side of ball-less men

The benefit of a man without balls is that you never have to worry about him getting in touch when you don't want him to. What a relief! He seems to be providing relief after relief: doesn't want a relationship, won't attempt to contact me.  

Sweet! (Deal, not him).

Movie wisdom

"What you feel only matters to you. 

What you do to the people you say you love is the only thing that counts"

- The Last Kiss