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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Don't get me wrong, but
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 20:05:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 20:05:36 1986
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In article <2890@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
> In article <12579@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jablow@brahms.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) writes:
...
> >
> >Look, I can have reasonable conversations with just about anybody.  Yet
> >I do not meet anyone who might be willing to date me.  Ever.  The
> >people I meet are co-workers, and older people (married relatives,
> >etc.)  I just don't know what to do.  I am not trying to redevelop my
> >entire personality; I just want pointers.
> 

Hmm.  I originally read your article and thought I didn't have any ideas,
but then it occured to me that that was silly.  I currently have an SO
that I didn't meet while in college, so I must have done *something* right!

When I first started working I was the youngest person there (that wasn't
on the cleaning staff :-)) by a good 15 years.  I had zilch social life.
As corny as it sounds I met my current SO by taking a night-time CS course
at Harvard's Extension School.  However that probably wouldn't have done
it by itself, it was mainly that my roommate asked her if she played DND
and would like to come over for a game (look, when a 5'11'' red-head
comes stalking into class in a flowing black cloak you have a suspicion
they might be into fantasy gaming!).

So anyway, taking courses helped.  Roommates help; particularly ones that
arn't competition and are less introverted - a roomate just like yourself
will probably result in TWO people who don't meet anyone.

Otherwise I don't have any suggestions, I still hardly meet anyone new
unless it's someone my SO knows, and I'm still working with people who
all seem to have gotten married just before I met them!

                                            -kee

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