Vegas Victor

It's been a quiet few weeks on the online dating front. And by quiet I mean boring. Definitely my busy schedule's fault, though I suppose some ebbs and flows in your enthusiasm for meeting people in cyberspace are only natural. Because of either fatigue or "growing wise", I have been more critical about the selections Match sends me, and just wasn't feeling the inspiration to put myself out there. That's not the winning attitude of a dating sales funnel manager! Snap out of it Raggedy Ann, before your yarn hair falls out and you are discarded as last year's toy. (Correction - last generation's toy).

So like I said - it had been a quiet... until last night. I had a high school relapse, and entertained a four hour phone conversation that put me to sleep just a smidge before sunrise. Enter Victor. On paper - or computer screen - Victor's profile is a lot like mine. Athlete, psychology and biology major, buddhist, unsure about wanting kids, and he's very tall. The only drawback I saw was that he lived in Vegas, but several fascinating emails convinced me it was worth getting to know him over the distance. And thankfully he hates Vegas. Job brought him there but he doesn't plan on staying. So any worries of a closet-substance-abusing-gambling-addict are at bay. For now.

The four hour conversation was absolutely FASCINATING. While there definitely was a slight professorial feel to it (he did most of the talking) - the topics were right up my alley. Health, energy, immune system, intuition, psychology, nutrition, exercise, philosophy. Victor is very educated and masterfully articulate. Hearing him talk about subjects that I have dedicated pieces of my life to was... well... invigorating. It was like taking a deep breath and exhaling in to total relaxation. To put it in a hippy California kinda way, it felt like we were on the same vibe.

Whether or not this ever amounts to anything more than this one half-a-work-day phone call, Victor was a sweet reminder of what it feels like to truly connect with another person. Remotely. Do I sound stoned? Maybe I am. I'd like to roll the dice on this one and see what fortune brings.