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Chatterpillar - August 2006

Seriously seeking, Susan

August 31st 2006 22:43

Ahhhhh! That bird is annoying. It's only 5am. Probably the same kind calling for a mate that they talked about on TV - annoying the whole of Sydney this spring.
That's right.
Hello, you're back again?
(No answer.)
Who are you? Are you God, Jesus, my authentic self, or just me in my own mind?
(Still no answer.)
Anyway I know you're there. You're not normally there. I mean, I only hear you when I'm half awake, and only on some mornings, some weeks not at all.
That's right.
I like talking with you, you seem to make things clearer to me somehow.

What would you like to be clearer on right now?
Well. How about Lil Siss? I've known her for two years since we met through RSVP.
Why do you call her Lil Siss?
Because she said she wasn't romantically inclined but wanted a friendship, being pretty much alone in Australia. So I said "Okay, you can be my sister", because I'm an immigrant lacking family here too. That was two years ago and we've met for coffee once a month ever since.
You're worried about what to tell her about how it went for you with Match.com?
Yes.
Just tell her the truth. Of the 20 women you got to email, you saw seven and ended up with one new friend from it.
Yes, Susan. She's like another sister. This time it was the other way around. She saw that I wasn't romantically inclined, but she still wanted to develop a friendship.
So now you have two sisters in Australia.
Yep. But I don't call Susan a sister. She's somehow closer than that. When she phones we can talk for hours, sometimes from 10pm to 2am. That's like you and me. We can talk for hours too, although it's in the morning.
Yes.
Whose the more real, you or her?

She's real, isn't she? She's flesh and blood.
Yes, but our contact is only on the phone once a week. I haven't been with her since she told me about her new friend met through Match.com - David - where there is romance or something like that.
But still she keeps in touch with you.
Yes, weekly. And I'm very grateful. I told her so last phone call. When we finished the call, I said: "Thanks, Susan, for being so big and developing me as a friend, despite David".
So this is what you're going to tell Lil Siss, when she asks you about what came from Match.com. Anything else that you'd like to talk about? It's still early.
Yes. Last night I got an email from Orble's new person noting that I haven't made a new blog for a fortnight. Jasmine wrote that Chatterpillar is really good and I ought to write some more.
Do you think it's a good blog?
Yes. But I'm not satisfied because there hasn't been any feedback apart from by Orble.
So what makes you resume blogging with this new one this morning?
Hope.
What sort of hope?
Same sort that made me join Match.com in Easter and RSVP two years ago.
Good.
Why do you say "good".
Because you have Susan as a new friend since Match.com and Lil Siss from RSVP. New friends in your lonely life are good.
But I hate just writing and not get back any response. I hoped I'd get responses by asking Susan to read Chatterpillar - and that guy I hit it off with so well at the hospital this week. But neither has come back with any sort of comment. I thought they would especially enjoy the blog about meeting on the town hall steps, because they have both been in RSVP.
Jasmine implied there are plenty who did enjoy your blogs but haven't made a comment.
I just want to put out and see what comes back.
What if nothing comes back?
I guess I'll just get discouraged and stop blogging again.
I'll help you so you don't get discouraged.
What!
How?
Like I did this morning, in helping you write this blog.
Promise?
That's up to you, you have to seek me out.
But I'm not even sure whether you are real. This might just be a wank going on in my own mind. Probably is.
If you take me seriously, then I'll take you seriously. Haven't I shown that just now?
That would make you reliable like Susan who calls me once a week. Just as reliable, maybe even just as real.
You figure it out. Now scan through what you've typed. Make any improvements. Then leave the blog alone. Check it only for spelling later in the day before you post it on to Chatterpillar.

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Meeting at the Town Hall steps

August 17th 2006 01:57

Hey, Big Cat, fancy seeing you here. Meeting someone?
G'day Lil Siss. Yep. But not for another half hour.
Why are you here so early?
Trains are running faster than I thought.

So who's the lucky girl?
Synchronicity.
Sounds exciting. So you're into sin then?
Not s-i-n, you smart arse.
Oh, you mean first name Cyn. Chronicity - is that a Greek family?
Still wrong. I mean syn as in s-y-n.
Shit, Big Cat, are you on a blind date?

Sort of, we met on the Internet.
So you took my advice, you joined a dating site.
Yep.
Which one, RSVP?
No, Match.com
Never heard of them.
According to Choice magazine, they are the biggest. Got the most members. More than half a million.
But RSVP's TV ads say they have more.
Yer, the Choice article is a bit out of date I think.

So how did you decide which site to go with?
I tried out four of them starting Good Friday. By Easter Sunday I decided to run with Match.com.
Why.
Simplest method of payment. You pay for a month which gets you as many contacts as you like.
Doesn't RSVP give you that too?
No, there you pay in advance for electronic stamps. You have to use up a stamp every time you want to make a contact. On the same amount as Match.com's monthly sum, you run out before the month's up.

What about the other two sites you tried?
One was Adultmatchmakers.
What's the story with that one. Many matches there for you?
No. I think it was because I didn't put anything down for size.
Wadda y'mean - size?
That's six fingers you're holding up, what does that mean?
If I tell you, you'll go "how gross".
Tell me anyway.
For you women they ask for cup size, for us it's...
How gross!

So you tried Adult Matchmakers first. Get any responses at all?
Nope. I think maybe size does matter.
Isn't it a very big site?
Something like 60,000. Good thing is you can see how many others are on line at the same time as you.
Cool.
Yep, you choose settings to show just the profiles of just the women on line and for the age group and anything else, like living distance from you.

So what happened when you did that?
For my settings there were only about six women on line.
Mostly it was the same six, on line all day by the looks.
Reckon your settings caused so few?
Nope. I think it's a gender imbalance.
Like, how did you figure that?
By changing the gender I saw about thirty guys were on line at any time.
As if I you were looking for guys?
As if.

You're meeting this Syn whatever in 20 minutes. Is she the first?
No, I met TrulyTruly this morning. There's Wendy6 and Jane2 tomorrow.
Wow, Big Cat, you're really packing them in!
That's only four. I've been emailing with 20.
Twenty! All at once?
Kind of. First there were 10 "winks", then another 10 during the week following.
That's on Match.com?
Yep. On RSVP you don't get "winks", you get "kisses".

So, a "wink" or "kiss" is when someone sees your profile and emails through the dating site to show that they're interested?
Yes. When you get one by email, you look up the site for the sender's profile, then send back one of six responses like "thanks but no thanks" or "thanks I'll email you a letter real soon".
That's "kisses" and "winks"?
Yep. Never did find out what they are call them on Adult Matchmakers.
Wanks maybe.
Lil Siss! How gross!!

Come on, Big Cat, you must have got at least one response to your profile. Maybe someone not concerned about size...
Well, actually there was one.
Who was she?
Not a she.
Oh.

Moving right along, Lil Siss - you could try internet dating too.
You'd go well. Just put up a profile with your photo.
Do photos on profiles make a difference?
Your's sure would. The sites say having no photo hampers the responses.
Did you put up a photo?
Yer.
I see.
What do you mean "I see".
Nothing.

Anyway. For my $50, Match.com gave me 19 "winks" to respond to.
Where was the 20th from?
I "winked" one from the list they email you which shows who's been looking at your profile.
Do all the sites let you see who's looking at your profile?
More do now that some started doing it.
Hey, what if I don't want people to know when I've been doing the looking?
You can tick an option so you can perve without being seen perving.
They don't say that!?
No, they say it a bit nicer than that.

Big Cat, how did you manage all that emailing at once?
You've got to keep notes on each one, or else..
Else what?
Else you find yourself telling Wendy6 about something that only Jane2 would know.
Did that happen to you?
No, but I got accused of it once.

Accused of what, exacty?
When I mentioned an old friend's name, she came back with "never heard that name before, don't you just love this internet experience".
She thought you'd goofed up. At least she was nice about it.
Not all of them are nice.
How come?
They suddenly stop emailing and you're left wondering why.

Did you just stop emailing anyone?
Only after saying something about why I think she and me might be a bit too different.
Get any arguments?
Yer, Sychonicity. Demanded to know if it was something she had said when we were on the phone.
So you get to talk on the phone, too. How does that work?
It depends on who gives out their phone number first. Using a mobile number is best. Plus mobiles let you zero in on each other, like here on the Town Hall steps.

There's your mobile going off now.. . Good luck, Big Cat. Let me know how it goes.
I'll give you an update next week.
Yer. Bet you'll have a girlfriend sorted by then.
Whatever.

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SBS Friday “Insiders Guide to Love” Part 5 - Big Cat's review for Cool-kid

August 15th 2006 23:24

Rachel, source http://www.love.insiders.co.nz/characters/rachel.php

Hey, Big Cat, whatja do last night?
Hey, Cool-kid. The usual, how about you?

Went down the R'ie. Did I miss much?
SBS had a good show called "Insiders Guide to Love". Last night was the fifth episode. I'd rate it an eight.

Another ethnic show, I 'spose.
Not unless you call country Aussies and Westies ethnic.

What do you mean?
It was about people roughly your age. Apart from saying sex instead of six and yis instead of yes, they could be from Wellington NSW or Sydney's west.

So where was it?
Wellington, New Zealand, in places like Mount Victoria, the coast near the airport, Newtown, Waterloo.

Almost sounds like around Sydney.
Yep, and just as rainy as Sydney was this week.

Tell me about it, Big Cat.
Last night was mainly about Rachel, a feisty young mother of an eight year old boy. No longer with her two-timing partner.

How choice was she?
Check her out here from the pic.

Choice enough. Tell me more.
A sub plot ran about Maxine living with Rachel's ex, Marty. He previously led the two in "marriages" at the same time. There was another sub-plot about Nicole losing Brad's dog, Batman. But I'll stick to Rachel - and her determination to woo Luc.

What did she see in Luc?
His looks and kindness, I think. Choice too, but a bit over-cooked in the head. Ran away from Rachel when she tried to get into his pants.

Bit wee was he?
No, he had this growth like a golf ball below his belly button. And the crazy belief that the growth was the cellular outbreak of his un-born twin, who he had consumed in the womb.

Run that past me again.
Luc was a twin except his twin never got born. Now he believes the twin has started growing in him because he ate him in the womb - crazy, eh!

Whatever.
This was the episode called "Can you accept love". Apart from deciding whether to love Luc despite his crazy beliefs, Rachel also had to grieve her old teacher, a nun, whose belief in Jesus had seemed just as crazy.

Did she love this old nun too?
Yep. Visited her sometimes daily during her confinement. Was there at the moment of her death - in a chapel.

Sounds heavy.
Not really. So well acted, it was very real and very touching.

And?
And there was a really good revelation.

You and your revelations! What was it this time?
That love is accepting.

You can hear that at any church.
Sure, but do you really hear?

I gave up listening to them preacher types.
Precisely. But here's the same lesson where the film-makers put it across in a story that really gets to you.

So what's the juice on this Insiders series?
It's about romantic love, but other kinds of love too - like love of life, love of self, love for children and parents, love of God, love of art, love gone wrong, love lost and unrequited love.

Shit, sounds like someone wrote it out for you.
They did, check it out in SBS and in the film-makers' own website.

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