DISQUS

ericaogrady · 2 years ago

Wow - this is one of the most honest and authentic posts I\'ve read in a long time. Micah thank you for sharing this - and more importantly - thank you for making me feel young again (don\'t ask me why - but that\'s the very effect this post had on me).

Will · 2 years ago

Micah, A Very real / raw / honest post, I like it a lot. With the little I know of you so far (and I hope there is a lot more in the future), this does not surprise me in the least bit. You are one of the most interesting, deep people I have met in awhile. I feel like I have known you for awhile and this post shows me a side that now that I read it I realize I knew it, but it took this post to bring it to light. For what it is worth, the woman that you described is my wife almost to a T, but sorry, she is all mine :-)

micah · 2 years ago

I feel the same about you, buddy, and given your comments about your wife, it probably makes sense. I cant wait to meet her!

micah · 2 years ago

Is it really out of the ordinary honest? I guess it good that I dont realize that I am being different...and its interesting that it made you feel young again (although, I would argue its hard to feel young again if you arent old, Ms. O'Grady.)

micah · 2 years ago

Thank you. Its been months in the thinking, a morning in the writing. Ive been learning that if you dont ask, you wont get, so hopefully, we will see where this takes me... ;)

Kath · 2 years ago

Very sweet yet honest post.

Chris Hayes · 2 years ago

Micah, Both that picture of Patricks and your post sound very much like something one of my professors in college did. Brilliant mathematician, and he went about finding his mate in the geekiest - and most effective way - I've ever heard. He wrote up his list of requirements, like you guys have, then handed it out to everybody he knew, telling them to give copies to either girls that fit, or their friends. Like a chain letter. Couple months later, he gets an email from some girl on the west coast (he lived on the east coast). They start chatting online. Eventually phone calls. Then fly to somewhere in the middle of the US to meet. Last I heard, they'd been married at least 10 years - well past the usual divorce point. Of course, he was also going blind, and teaching esoteric math to kids with no social skills whatsoever. But he had his wife. Get that list out there. ;) - Chris

deb · 2 years ago

There will be a girl who will recognize you as someone who can keep up, keep calm and take the lead from time to time. Maybe she'll have boobs.

Will · 2 years ago

Give it time and you will! She is one in a million.

micah · 2 years ago

Im good with the boobs part...LOL.

Paula · 2 years ago

Very thoughtful post, Micah. While the physical feature set doesn't work so well for me (unless it's time to become a lesbian), the quality list is extremely helpful. I plan to print that out and remember it when I get involved again. I'm about to finalize my divorce after a two-year plus separation, and a relationship that developed in the meantime just ended...both because they didn't have all the essential qualities on this list -- especially the last 3. I guess I've learned they should be dealbreakers.

Kath · 2 years ago

He found her!! Hope you find your dream girl as well.

micah · 2 years ago

really? Thats very cool.

Janni · 1 year ago

I hope all of us find our dream girl one day...

Kate · 11 months ago

I like this post. Very, very honest, but it doesn't make you sound like a freakjob, either. You know what you want, maybe too much (makes it difficult to look outside the box when something different comes along), and that's respectable. may 2009 be the year you locate said dream girl.

micah · 11 months ago

I should probably revisit that post. I wonder if it has changed much...