So I had a response this morning to my online personals ad.

Wait, you say, what online personals ad. You never told me about any online personals ad. I thought I was your friend.

Well, there are some things you don't yet know about me (Zorak is many things) and the fact that I've had an ad up at Swoon has been one of them. I'm not telling you which one. I'll buy anybody a beer who can figure out on the first try which ad is mine. (Offer limited to people I'd normally be drinking beer with already; membership is available to qualified applicants; inquire within)

But anyway, I was actually thinking about it this morning, and how I might as well go ahead and remove it since it hadn't gotten any response in any of its various iterations, and probably wasn't going to any time soon if at all. I was reminded of something I saw in their little online "forum," where somebody said, "help, I put my ad up a week ago and I've only gotten one response, what am I doing wrong?" The replies were all, "You got a response?! What did you do?"

This also follows a conversation with Emily earlier this week where she suggested that Washington might be a good place to try the personals ad route, and that her friend Carey had done it with some success in NYC. She doesn't know about the online personals ad either.

But I got a response, which was in my email this morning right after I'd been thinking I ought to delete the ad entirely. I sent an email back around lunchtime today. We'll see.

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