please...stop me if you've heard this profile description
before...single man looking for beautiful woman who has traveled
extensively, speaks 7,194 languages, climbs mountains on weekends,
loves to laugh and is described by her friends as the kindest,
sweetest person to ever walk the earth. maybe, just maybe, she's
spent the last six months in peru backpacking and is planning her
28th trip to italy. ok, maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration (the
7,194 languages part) but doesn't it seem like we're all reading
the same profile? why do we need match.com? aren't we all already
climbing everest? wouldn't we run into each other in nepal?<br />
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part of me would feel a lot more comfortable if i read a profile
that said, "i admit it, sometimes on a saturday afternoon i snooze
on the couch or watch tv because i'm exhausted. i don't need to
'do' something every saturday night as i'm perfectly content
hanging around at home, in my jammies, with my hair a mess, no
makeup, making dinner, having a bottle of wine and watching tv.'"
doesn't anyone watch svu marathons, chopped!, storage wars or food
truck wars? doesn't anyone get stuck going to costco on saturday
afternoon? where do you find the time to do everything you do? i
find that i spend hours at home depot trying to explain to the
check out clerk that no, i don't want to buy the orange bucket,
that i used it to carry stuff around.<br />
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while i find those people who have traveled to 3,329 countries
adventurous (do passports really have room for that many stamps?),
i have to admit that i haven't done that. i do have a reasonably
well-worn passport and i've seen much of europe and some of asia
but i did most of my traveling early in my career and it always
seemed more important to sit in the back of the cab preparing for
my next meeting than taking in the sights as i drove by. if i had
it to do all over again, wisdom would have me make better
decisions.<br />
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by day i'm a business, legal and travel journalist. i think that
makes me a cynic who fantasizes. i've wanted to be a journalist
since i was 15 so i'm doing what i've always wanted to do. while
covering business is straightforward, writing about legal cases can
be difficult, complex and heartbreaking. there are times when it
can also be very rewarding. my goal is to write a non-fiction book
on a topic that has yet to be determined. now there's focus for
you.<br />
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in my spare time i love to golf. while this might sound schmutzy
(that's a very technical legal term) i like golf because it's a
game of honor - you call penalties on yourself and if you cheat
you're the only one who will know. it's a microcosm of life, play
by the rules and when you mess up, own it. that's me in a nutshell.
i also like movies, live theatre and music, i want to learn to ski
and i want to visit budapest (you'll have to ask about this
one).<br />
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so what am i looking for? someone who is super smart, has the
courage of her convictions and is not afraid to tell me when i'm
wrong. someone who understands that writers can sometimes be
neurotic but we can also be very interesting too. finally, someone
who is willing to swing at the park and tell me stories of when she
was a little girl. if you've been to 3,329 countries that's a bonus
but i want verifiable proof that the story is true.<br />
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you see, everyone has a story and journalists love to listen to
them.