This is stolen from my Yahoo! personal ad...
I'm Jess, and I have Asperger's Syndrome.
I'm really glad I got that off my chest. I'm glad I'm not an alcoholic.
I also feel like a slight idiot making a personal ad.
Well, I don't want to try like I'm selling myself, but I do come with a free set of steak knives that you can keep with no extra cost, so perhaps that sweetens the deal.
I'm still in high school, going into my senior year, but I want to go to college, get my Ph.D, and become a professor in History.
I just got out of a serious relationship with a wonderful intellectual and romantic writer who I fell deeply and painfully in love with. I thought he was "the one", but we fought a lot and he buckled. I'm pretty upset, but I won't compare you, or at least I'll try.
On dates, I'm content with lying around on the futon, watching Dr. Zhivago, dressing up to the nines and getting fancy dinner, faking proposals or beatings, seeing a film, going to an amusement park, bothering puppies, anything as long as it doesn't involve mushrooms or pregnancy tests. Strange and unusual gifts are fun to have and collect. I like to lavish my lovers with poetry and tomes of my affection. I'm like an obnoxious housecat, I guess.
In my spare time, I like to write. I keep up a blog, and I have won quite a few writing contests around the country. I own a typewriter and his name is Raskolnikov. I also play guitar, both electric and acoustic, and I love animals. I work in a pet store right now...it's pretty cool.
I guess I'm a pretty interesting human being- I'm pretty sarcastic and strange, and my sense of humor basically leeches off of bad film references and mid-thought conversations. It takes some getting used to, like vodka.
I'd like to meet someone who is interested in a long term relationship, and I'm setting the standards at breathing and close to my age. I'd like a person who can appreciate my quarks, is polite to my parents, can use words like "vernacular" in a sentance, and someone who likes to email. I'm kind of a Yahoo! freak, it's a great way to communicate with me. Maybe someone who can leave me handwritten love notes, too. I'm a sucker for all things handwritten and spelled correctly.
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I'm open to meet, and I'm not an amputee, nor do I have any outstanding police records in this state. So maybe we can meet up. I'm excited. z.a.m.m.d.o.g.g at y.a.h.o.o. dot c.o.m for mail, with obvious removal of the parenthesis and random periods. Please don't spam me. I like my email and I like to keep it spam-free. No as*holes.
I have also just realized that, due to the fact that I am cheap, I lack a subscription and any means of communicating outside of those borderline-retarded one-liners that make me feel like I ought to be paid by the hour while on a date. So email is actually a must. Please email me, or I'll never be able to respond.
Well, I'm going to save time by NOT counting the reasons you sound awesome. But there's a lot. What state ARE you in? I see a lot of them, but not all. You appear to be idle on Yahoo at the moment, so when/if you decide to respond to the random guy who IMed you, yay! :d