Just me, the D700, and a 50mm f/1.4D vs Washington DC and 318,391,304 tourists…
Lately, I’ve been trying to avoid bringing out the 24-70mm f/2.8G as much as possible. It’s big and heavy and intimidating… and honestly, I think I’m over zooms. There’s just a magical quality to photos taken with primes. Anyways, my advice to you: if you aren’t shooting with a prime yet, you need to start now.
Since the last post, I’ve been on a total of 4 first dates and 1 second date. That’s right, in the past two months 4 different guys have made it to the reality round after going through the painstaking process of electronically answering 4 levels of progressively in-depth questions about their life story. Here’s who made the cut:
Bachelor #1: Tall, dark, semi-handsome. Sweet and charming for an IT fellow. Had a LOT in common, almost too much. A little older than I’d like at 31, ready to settle down and have kids within the first 2.5 dates. I decided that I just wasn’t quite ready for a baby within the next 3 months…and I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop noticing his white socks with dress shoes.
Bachelor #2: Short – in fact, a whole 3” shorter than what was stated on his profile. Shorter than me. 20 minutes late to drinks (because he was out running an insane number of miles, so he said) and had to call me to find the spot that he had picked out himself. In the spirit of openness, I tried to give him a shot after all this, because he was a seemingly sweet guy…but it boiled down to the height thing. It’s an issue for me because I’m already short at 5’3”.
Bachelor #3: Culturally diverse with a nice mixed-ethnicity-background, extremely polite, respectful, and genuine. Steady job, lived just outside the city, and charmingly witty (in a sporadic manner). This one had seemed to have potential, but 10.5 hours into our 2 dates, we ran out of things to talk about other than the music skills he had been fine tuning since he was 10. They were fascinating at first, but there was only so much music trivia that I could feign interest in during that uber long period of time. Needless to say, at the end, we just weren’t that into each other.
Bachelor #4: Had long, funky hair in his eHarmony photos and then showed up with a great, short haircut. Although I didn’t find myself physically attracted to him after noticing this (not that I was that attracted to the messy long hair either), I thought, “Hey, how bad could this one really be?” He had told me previously that he was really passionate about giving back to the community, so I thought he had to have some sense of depth to him. Boy was I right about depth, because he turned to me at one point and just blurted out, “You have a nervous laugh, which means you have some unresolved issues. That’s ok. But you still have something you need to resolve so you don’t cover it up with your laugh anymore.” End scene.
So I’m back to the drawing board. It’s been a really weird ride so far, because I keep getting such a funny range of average [?] bachelors in the eH-Inbox. But I am reminded that it’s all a numbers game. So I will wait patiently to sift through the hundreds more matches that I am scientifically proven to have more chemistry with, to uncover the identity of (a hopefully promising) Bachelor #5…
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